Adolescence tries to steal the good natured human that was once my son…but he wins

This is how I found my son hanging out today.

It is the beginning of the school holidays. Sadly it’s also the beginning of adolescence in our family and my son is acting like he’s been mainlining testosterone with added shots of attitude.

It’s not pretty.

It’s at times like this that my cheery positive attitude (said with only a hint of irony) tells me that it’s more important to focus on all the good things that he does than all the testosterone disguised as attitude that is trying to escape his body at the moment.

So, given that I am a list lover, I’m scraping the bottom of my barrel today and listing all the times that I genuinely love my 13-year-old and can see past the hormones

• When he eats fruit
• When he eats vegetables (even though it’s usually the whitest and least nutritional part of the lettuce)
• When he looks at people when he speaks to them
• When he brushes his teeth without getting toothpaste in his eye or on the bathroom mirror
• When he texts me a photo of himself at school holding his marked tests or assignments with a huge smile on his face
• When he voluntarily takes the dishes off the table or brings the groceries in from the car
• That one time when he took the dog for a walk without me asking
• When he is thoughtful, like last week when he tried to buy his father a South Park DVD and they wouldn’t sell it to him because he’s too young and so he bought his dad a gift voucher instead
• When he runs the bath for me although he sometimes forgets to put the plug in and has more than once forgotten to add hot water
• When he gets into the car after school and I ask him how his day was and he answers every time by saying “good, how was the post you wrote for Kidspot? Did they love it?”
• When I hear him organising his friends so that everybody is happy
• When he laughs from deep inside his belly
• When he is asleep. Seriously – all his innocence comes back to him when he’s asleep and relaxed
• When I see how much he loves his father (more and more so every single day and he started by loving him a fortune)
• When I say “I love you” to him and he says “I love you more”
• When he texts me as he gets on and off the bus on the way home from school
• When he goes to movies with his friends and gives me a break from his testosterone fueled moods and a chance to write about and reflect on how much I really love him – even with his teenage attitude.

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Okay I guess the holidays won’t be so bad after all – even if I keep having to come back to this post to remind myself of how awesome my son is.

What are you loving about your loved one right now?