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Off topic for sure but I am venting not about food isssues but ... teenagers... omg.My 19 year old he is doing well maybe he's matured some.Boy my 13 yearold daughter moody isnt the word.My 17 year old he is in this stage where he thinks he's an adult and I have to remind him he's not.Thinks he knows all the answers and is getting a mouth on him.I am stepping up the discipline a notch and they dont like it.Its just as hard for me as it is for them but I gotta do it.Thank God I had them when I was young.I have been told if your kids say they hate you sometimes that I am doing a good job.I think I have been told I am mean several times also.I must be a super terriffic mom for sure.I am glad I take the door slamming and "I hate you" with a grain of salt.Boy they dont know how good they have it.I always say if am so mean why is it that all of your friends seem to hang at my house??? Now I know why some animals eat their young...because they have to.Have a good day from the meanest mom around ~Laura~

Tough love - is the only kind sometimes. Glad it is working. Yes, I love the fact that the kids hang out at your house. You must be really, really mean and hateful. LOL! One thing my mother and father never had to worry about was me or my sister. Our house was the hang out. In the summer, we were in the garage - dad put a light and electricity out there. The place was cleaned and painted and we had a picnic table with bench in there. We had a small record player out there and radio. If we weren't there it was the front stoop (brick stairs). If it was winter, we were in the front room of our house. We called it the porch but it was a sunroom type. We were always there and always safe. Nice kids. Kathy

"Now I know why some animals eat their young..." My son is 11 going on 12 and BOOOOOOOYYYYY do I see the teenager in him these days... We had our first "knockdown dragout" a few weeks ago over homework. We both wound up sobbing on the couch... One door slamming incident in which I promptly promised him if it happened again I would happily REMOVE his door for 30 days. Hey, worked for me - cured me of that after a one month stint without any privacy when I was 13...