BS: New Teen on the block!!

Subject: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 03:17 AM

Yes, today I become the proud owner of a Teenager!!

There didn't appear to be any "Kevin" type transformations at midnight - she's been like that for months now... but today Limpit becomes a Teenager.

Happy Birthday dear, it still doesn't excuse you from piano practice.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 04:10 AM

Awra best Limpit
frae
Dauvitt and his Meg
Beep flamin Beep

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 04:49 AM

All the teenbest, Limpit

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 05:28 AM

Happy Bday from the Great White Frozen North Limpit!

I hope you have a great day, eh!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: maeve
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 05:42 AM

Happy Birthday from Midcoast Maine, Limpet.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 06:42 AM

Enjoy it while it lasts Phoebe.
Lay down memories while you're young, for enjoyment later in life.

Many Happy Returns.


Giok

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 09:17 AM

Dearest Liz: one does not "own" a teenager, any more than one "owns" a cat. You are the provider of food, clean clothes and spending money upon demand. Your opinions on what she eats, the type of clothing worn, and how she spends the money you give her are of very limited value or meaning. Get used to it.

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 09:57 AM

birfday greetings to the happy teenager, & mother-of-birthday-girl greetings to her equally happy mother!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 10:22 AM

Can not be!
Happy Birthday,Limpet!

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 10:27 AM

Congratulations, Liz, upon entering the increasingly-weird land of parenting teens. It's almost bound, at some point, to get interestingly (and sometimes frustatingly) bumpy. But there's no reward in parenting like it-- this pre-launch phase we share with our young adults.

I find myself, with parents of teens, repeating a certain piece of advice I actually learned, first from Mudcat's own Barky-- and have since seen with many, many teens and their parents.

And that is:

.... the very best way to see how our teens are developing, in terms of their selfhood, is to look to their peer relationships-- not their relationships with us parental beings. If you can see health in the peer relationships, any at all-- even if it includes lying to parental beings for the sake of a friend's need-- there is a strong indication that they have actually soaked up the real lessons we have been trying to inculcate. It shows as rebellion to US, but it's not, when there is that health embedded in the peer thing. It's a sign that they are rejecting the tainted stuff we inadvertently passed on as "solid" which is actually just our own unhealed baggage-- which we would actually want them to eschew. It all comes together in their 20's... and if we support it we even get to hear about it when they come back, proud to show us their amazing adult selves.

They really have been listening and paying attention, all this time. They';re just too cool to let us see it till it bursts out. And then we ask ourselves, "How did my kid get THAT [smart, strong, wise, etc.]?" I hear it all the time.

Just something to keep in mind, for later. :~) When it gets bumpy.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 11:03 AM

I tell people that when my daughter was 13, I threatened to run away from home. I suddenly had become a parent who understood nothing of what she was going through.

No fears, though. By the time she was 14 it was already better.

Happy Birthday, Limpit!

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 11:41 AM

It seems fairly easy still when they're 13, and 14 isn't too bad, but those upper teen years do get a lot more challenging. Good luck, and enjoy--and remember--they do outgrow it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 12:29 PM

Oi Limpit

Hurry up and get to the age where you can buy me a drink - you can count down on the fingers of one hand now.

Happy burfday Phoebe

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 12:37 PM

Has your mother bought you a Ferrari yet? She should, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 12:50 PM

Penblwydd Hapus

From sunny South Wales

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 02:07 PM

Happy birthday Phoebe and Good luck Liz!

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Pistachio
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 06:09 PM

Yorkshire greetings on your Birthday. I remember meeting you both at the Yorkshire gathering about 5 years ago.Talk about time flying.
Have a wonderful life.

Hazel (Hissyfit)

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 06:18 PM

Ask your mother why she hasn't gotten you a Ferrari for your birthday. You are, after all, a Big Girl now and quite capable of driving one.

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 06:29 PM

And a most happy birthday from way out here in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Don't worry. Chances are the both of you will survive.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 06:36 PM

Oh, yer a lot o'help, Rapaire!:-)

Happy Birthday, Phoebe. Aries Rule!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 11:15 AM

Happy Birthday Phoebe, sorry it's a day late.

Hope you had a wonderful day and have plenty planned for the weekend

Love

Khatt, Paul, Harry, George and Amelia xxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 11:20 AM

No Ferrari... got a fururry though... he's sitting on the printer.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: MMario
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 11:26 AM

Impossible! Couldn't possibly have been that long....

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: ranger1
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 05:58 PM

Happy birthday, Limpit! May you not give your mum too many heart-attacks and may she not threaten to kill you too many times over the next several years...

Good luck, Liz. You're gonna need it...

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: JennieG
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 09:04 PM

Happy birthday Phoebe, from Oz....

Liz, just think - when you brought that bundle of joy home from hospital 13 years ago, did it ever dawn on you then that one day you would have your very own teenager?

And the really big question, will she let you drive the red Ferrari sometimes?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Bert
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 11:35 PM

Happy birthday Limpet.

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 10:52 AM

Belated birthday greetings Phoebe. Commiserations Liz.

Live long, die happy.

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 10:59 AM

As I read this, there are two ads for dog obedience training at the bottom of the Mudcat screen. Makes you wonder just how prescient that ad generator is! You may want to note these down - for when she hits 14...

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 11:35 AM

West Ridge Academy
Values-Based Help,Troubled Teens Residential, Wilderness, & School
WestRidgeAcademy.com

Teen Discipline
Stop the Arguing, Lying, Stealing, Bad Grades, Disrespect, Rage,
and...

That's what's there now ;)

Subject: RE: BS: New Teen on the block!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 09:37 PM

Ah, she's not so bad, and the sleepover wasn't too horrific - only one of the two was able to come, pizza was eaten and they were still giggling like maniacs when I went to bed. Shopping trip yesterday was fun - although I hated clothes shopping when I was 13... she got a new top and a DS Nintendo game and seemed happy with that.

Thanks everyone... for the birthday wishes and the sympathies... :D

LTS