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trying!

But I was really very pleased when I went into the paper shop yesterday where my son has his paper round. He was going to show a 'new boy' his round and i went in with him to buy some milk, the ladies there greeted him with big smiles, and then asked if I was his mum. They said he is one of the best boys they have had, always on time , polite and very helpful , a real pleasure to have.

I was dead chuffed :))

So if you are living with a stroppy teen...remember , they may be really lovely elsewhere ;))

You're so right Rose. I remember when mine were teens, always at loggerheads...but people kept telling me what nice polite kids they were! I would ask if they were talking about MY children or someone else's LOL

Iv'e got a 20 year old like that, other people say how polite he is


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lol Teresa , it's nice to know that what ever they are like with you at times, they can be nice 'out there' !

try living with 3...lol

Rose isnt it lovely when someone gives you credit for your children although they play abig part init aswell..lol

My son is 23 now ,and a really lovely (man) ,but from the age of 14 to 17!!!!!!!!!!!.Everyone said what a lovely boy ,so polite etc.
He is still the messiest and layed back person ever.........he goes back to Uni in a couple of weeks.......................I say no more lol

Its not so bad for me yet Rose but I do see trouble ahead ~ I have a 13 year old n a 15 year old they are great ~ but my worse nightmare comes in the shape of my 11 year old who is very much kevin the teenager! already x

Aw well done Rose.

and indeed parents of teenagers everywhere, lol

(me included!)

Maria xxx

Ermmm Hayley...thanks...but one's enough lol

Helen there is something to be said for 'laid back and messy' , might also mean less stressed about the inconsequential things in life :) when it comes down to it, people remember what you were like to them , not how tidy you were lol

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Helen mine oldest is nearly 24....and he is a lovely polite young man...a wow with the ladies such a flirt ...a women of 70 said to me once "if I was 50 years younger".....and one of the lads he loves animals...and my middle one is 20 he is so quiet and also very polite...doesnt speak much then has you LOL with his one liners...

you included def' Maria and Mel... lol... it seems a struggle sometimes to remember them when they were 'sweet' but sometimes they say something nice and you remember lol
he said earlier I was the best mum in the world for knowing how to fix his bike (it was a guess that worked lol)

they sound lovely Hayley :))

I think the rewards out way all else! x

Do you find it more difficult Mel because you have disabled children?

Rose, they have two personalities I think.

Me With Mum

Me With Everyone else.

I find a bit more pressure Whirley, because I home educate, some people are waiting to 'pounce' if he is not 'perfect' lol...and the number of times it has been said 'yes but how will he learn to get on with people if he is not in school? " Well. he does lol .

I guess we are all 'guilty' of that anyway Teresa lol...I know I am more polite and 'nice' when I am out than I am sometimes with those closest to me lol

I love all my children the same and treat them all the same..my eldest was my best friend as he went in to the services at 16 he grew up quickly and very mature and we also talked about anything.. after about 10 yrs old he was never a loving lad...they were both the same ..but the day he went away ( to that place I wont say ) and I stood by the coach trying my hardest not to cry, I looked for him and seen him staring at me ....mths later when he came home I asked him what he was thinking he said ..I" wanted to picture you for the last time if I didnt make it home...oh dont start bubbering again Mother " .

When we came back our holiday earlier this mth as soon as I walked in the house my middle one came and hugged me and told me how much he had missed me...I hugged him back and told him I had missed him too...then as he was bounding up the stairs he told me the washing machine was broke..hmmmmm

I think it starts way before their teens though.

My baby is 6, and ever since nursery class when we go to parents evening they wish they had a class full of Ellen's. And this year (Reception) she gets an award every week for listening/paying attention/ following instructions or requests at the 1st time of asking.

And me & daddy think - why can't she do that at home? But we'd much rather she be consistently good for her teachers etc and let her hair down with us, than the other way round.

After this weekend the only word to describe my tennager is TERRIFIC!