You think you should take him something warm so life doesn't suck while walking home from the bus stop.
Step 2: Have an argument with yourself about letting said teen-ager suffer the natural consequences of his decision vs. speak his love language and giving the appearance of "rescuing" him.
Step 3: Allow "nice mom" version to win the 
argument and drop off these
at the high school so he will have them for the bus ride home.
Step 4: Receive a "Thanks for thinking of me, Mom" comment as the teen-age walks in the door after school--minus the sweatshirt and hat.
Step 5: Just smile and enjoy the fact the boy at least recognized you made an effort.
PS This is probably not the type of "how-to" post this blogger was looking for, and probably why I will never be a widely-read "Mormon Mommy Blogger", but oh well. It was a fun way to post about today's adventure with teen-age boy.
Next Tuesday I may post about adventure with teen-age girl, out-of-control texting, and consequences of such actions. We'll see.
PPS Someone please send me a "how to" tutorial on these things:
- commenting on the above-mentioned blogger's blog--I can't figure out how to disable my cookies. Heck, sometimes I can't even find my cookies.
- connecting our PS3 to the internet
- OR....connecting our "internet-ready" TV to internet, then we wouldn't need to worry about the PS3.
As you can tell, I'm a little behind on technology, and except for the out-of-controlling texting, my teen-agers are too (or so they have me believing).
5 comments:
You can't eat cookies - no wonder you can't find them.
Dan would call (from the office in those pre-cell phone days) & tell me where the extra jeep keys were so I could leave things like his football pants, once washed, in the jeep....
PS Your blog linked with "said blogger" so you did it!
Normally I am okay with tech stuff, but you've got me with the tv/internet connection thing...cute post.
Heather, I loved this. And I'm really interested in next week's.
Hopefully Christie will head over and fix your commenting problem...weird!
This is EXACTLY what kind of a post I was hoping for! This is awesome and so sweet. I love the internal debate - do it or not? I so do that as a mom.
As far as the comments - weird. I've never heard of that before. I have my blog set up so people can even comment anonymously - have no idea about cookies except the kind you eat. :-)
Thanks so much for playing along! I look forward to your teenage girl/texting posts. I am on the verge of that stage of life...help!
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