My son is right on the cusp of adolescence. He’s thisclose to being a teen even though, quite frankly, I’m not ready to be the parent of a teenager. I don’t feel much older than a 19 myself (except when I try to run, then I feel close to 100)
But time isn’t going to stop and it seem like I am going to have to get used to the surly moods I can see slowly beginning to creep in, the testosterone fueled tantrums, the sight of Little Pencil trying to be swallowed into the ground when I sing and the fact that he would rather be with his friends than anyone else on earth.
At the moment he’s still okay with me kissing him goodbye, he occasionally listens to me when I say no and he still looks very much like a little boy. (The hormones may just be doing their thing deep inside but on the surface this child’s skin doesn’t have an open pore let alone a hair follicle.)
He’s a happy, very independent child possibly because he has a father who has as much a say as I do and his father lets him climb on the roof, go out alone with his mates and watch movies that I’m not old enough to see.
Some might say I am over protective of my baby shnookums only son but I prefer to call it very loving with a side order of neurosis. I do know the importance of letting go and one day I plan to do just that.
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In the meantime I am taking solace in the fact that I am NOTHING compared to the mum in the latest Old Spice ad.
Creepy much? I would have said so but she makes me look like a free-range mum who let her child leave home at three. So I kind of like her.
What do you think? Too creepy or funny? Or does it leave you cold?
Well, the obvious thing wrong with that ad is that no men under 60 wear Old Spice.. 😉
Good point. But I think it’s over 70
When my eldest son left for a gap year in Italy it almost killed me. By the time my youngest son began to show signs of growing up I’d been beaten into submissive acceptance. The ad WAS creepy but hilarious.
The thought of my son leaving home makes me feel quite nauseous. *grabs a BIG wine*
Smellcome to manhood? Ha! That is uber-creepy but I guess they have to do something interesting, because let’s face it, we’re all still missing the guy on the horse.
Oh I miss the man on the horse, and the man in the shower!!!
Haha..we’re all definitely cool Mums compared to that creepy stalker (but hilarious) Mum!
(PS: JJ – Maybe Old Spice is coming back..?)
Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! 😉
Oh that is so funny! Love it. Especially the fact that I look totes cool compared to those mums lol. As for old spice, I remember giving my Dad Old Spice for Father’s Day every year for about five years!
Me too! About 30 years ago! x
Loved it, identify with it and hate myself for it. Love my boy!
I know how you feel! xx
Enough with the attacks on old spice. I love it! And it blends so well with my Brut deodorant.
The Old Spice Ad? Hilarious!
Watching your only son metamorphoses into all the things you have taught and shown him up to this point and more?….
And watching him make decisions without you, disagreeing with you, choosing different options on just about everything you imagined for him….
Watching him flex his pre-teen indepedenance with ease…..
not missing you nearly as much as you miss him? …. And then getting a hug and kiss out of the blue with a “I love you mum”
Really Lana! I don’t know what you’re talking about!!
Oh man..so creepy. I wish I could unsee that.
There’s a show called ‘Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents’ and it creeps me out. It’s a reality show where parents spy on their kids while they are on holiday. Their adult kids. Then they confront them at the end about everything they did. So whenever you are feeling that maybe you’re a little over protective, I suggest an episode of that show.
That is just weird. I don’t have a son so I don’t have to worry about him leaving home. I do remember my mother was quite annoyed with me the first time I said I was moving out, though.
I’m on a horse.
Oh wow, that’s a little creepy I think! I should show it to my daughters though, especially Ms14 who constantly tells me I’m too protective. It’s not that I don’t want them to grow up, it’s that I want to keep them safe and free of heartache and pain. Ridiculous I know but it’s how I feel. I wonder whether it would be different if I hadn’t been through so much to have my kids, or if I’d had more kids. Who knows? It’s my belief that it is impossible to love a child too much, but it is possible to hold on too tight (but I will just hang on for a little longer…)