tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823681431938282960.post3406660411471818663..comments2023-10-22T14:46:45.656+01:00Comments on Mad Manic Mamas: Huh?Sazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04433666175721615185noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823681431938282960.post-48356874177528454032009-07-25T20:30:13.481+01:002009-07-25T20:30:13.481+01:00Gawd - I wonder what i'm doing wrong. We are l...Gawd - I wonder what i'm doing wrong. We are lucky enough to have a lot of family dinners and my lot never shut up. The teen boy grunts around the house, but when the three of them sit down, it's like a competition to see who can come up with the funniest/most outrageous story at the loudest pitch possible. My poor mother has to go and lie down after meals when she's here.Expat mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798190669591053390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823681431938282960.post-40310573090898378552009-07-25T19:10:42.554+01:002009-07-25T19:10:42.554+01:00Teenage and conversation is like an oxymorornic ph...Teenage and conversation is like an oxymorornic phrase non?<br /><br />We do sit round the table 1-2 times a week, because nowadays that's as many times as we are in the same place at the same time?<br /><br />And converations are short and to the point, I often find I am still talking and they are half way up the stairs to their padded cell, sorry room! Mine is the padded one!Sazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04433666175721615185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823681431938282960.post-54883254764850843882009-07-25T17:56:00.598+01:002009-07-25T17:56:00.598+01:00This is assuming that you can get your teenager to...This is assuming that you can get your teenager to engage with you at all, right?!<br /><br />Similarly, Grizz is a delight to his friends' mothers - I have been told... And his closest friend loves me 'as I treat him as if he were my second son', he told me... Go figure! Great post, Jo! Fabulous...A Woman Of No Importancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02194976046531063422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823681431938282960.post-62753590705184397742009-07-25T17:02:52.663+01:002009-07-25T17:02:52.663+01:00In my house if we had these cards it would probabl...In my house if we had these cards it would probably end up in another reason for a row! I to get much more conversation from my teens friends than my own teen.bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17093353316834741465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823681431938282960.post-72833758137637046502009-07-25T16:05:45.647+01:002009-07-25T16:05:45.647+01:00Never before in the history of the teenager, have ...Never before in the history of the teenager, have there been so many mothers who bend over backwards, educate themselves with every 'how to' book they can find on the subject and worry themselves witless in their efforts to understand, communicate, and bring joy to their monosylabic offspring. <br /><br />I you can survive it they do turn into interesting, funny and kind human beings...they metamorphose around 17/18, honestly, about the time they have their first original thought [I remember that moment very well when it happened to me]<br /><br />Good luck to all concerned. I love this blog as I can enjoy it from a very safe distance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823681431938282960.post-26673533719268074902009-07-25T09:14:30.977+01:002009-07-25T09:14:30.977+01:00Haha....I'm sitting in the kitchen giggling to...Haha....I'm sitting in the kitchen giggling to myself. Where do you get them? The conversation cards LOL.<br />I have a teenager grunter & find it very depressing at the thought of the time it may last.Chic Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01803588856685163353noreply@blogger.com