Sneaking Out ...The Next Generation

Share I spent half my teen years suspended over the frame of my daylight basement bedroom window, either sneaking out … or sneaking back in.  So when I found my son’s bed empty at four a.m. the other night, I was only surprised by the fact that I’d not caught him before.  We’ll not go into the details of where he was…what he was doing…or how I managed to hide the bruises when I finally got ahold of him…suffice to say his cell phone is but a distant memory and he’ll remember the summer of his sixteenth year as the [READ MORE]

Just Another Scenic Sunday 6/26/11

Share This week I… Witnessed intense concentration… Nearly had a heart attack…but grabbed the camera first… Made a friend…then accidentally squished him and was sad… Visited a friend… Rafted on the Kenai River… Watched kids bond…and bounce… Took kids to the cabin… Let go and let God… Saw summer bloom… Watched this guy for a while… And wondered where boys get their energy…

Boys and Their Tools

Share There are few things more impulsive than a teenage boy when accompanied by other teenage boys.  Put two or more within the same vicinity and their brains shrink to the size of a worm and the little sense of reason they possess as an individual goes right out the window.  It’s just a scientific fact.  So when I discovered at ten this morning that Billy and Justin had not slept at all yet, my thoughts flew back to my own unsupervised teenage years.  EEK!   But all it took was a walk around our property to find every trace of [READ MORE]

Realistic Advice To Teenage Girls

Share  Because naive parenting leads to unprepared teenagers… Nobody really looks like that.  Stop trying to achieve the impossible. That eighty dollar pair of jeans looks exactly the same as that thirty dollar pair of jeans. Lower back tattoos are called a “Tramp Stamp” for a reason. In ten years you will be nothing like the person you are today.   I know you don’t believe me.  But please try not to embarrass the future you. Having a baby as a teenager is fun for about six minutes.  And then all your friends get tired of holding the baby and slowly [READ MORE]

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