My husband, Garth (not his real name) is really good at not panicking, especially dealing with an emergency situation; when, considering I took to Twitter when my middle girl’s butt exploded, clearly I am not.
On the other hand, I have made it my life’s mission to NOT sweat the small stuff AND have consistently failed said mission (it was more like a guideline, anyway, really) for the last…ummmm, let’s see…how old IS my oldest kid, again?!?
Aaaaanyway, point being (and I really do have one, promise) Garth (not his real name) and I have taken to handling this whole…parenting teens is hard, YO!…by tag-teaming each other, sort of like professional wrestlers would…during a no holds barred steel cage death match.
Blindfolded, with one arm tied behind our backs and buck-naked.
Like, the other night, when my youngest asked for help with an essay and then kept insisting on either disagreeing with or fighting me on ANY and ALL help that was being offered.
My husband walked in through the front door just in time to hear me holler, “Then, why BOTHER asking ME for help?!?”
[ding-ding-ding]
He rolled up his sleeves, loosened his tie and pushed me…every so gently, yet firmly…you know…out of the way.
“I got this!”
Or, whenever Contradictory Boy shows up (a.k.a. our 14 year-old son’s alter ego) and clashes with the gravitational forces on my husband’s forehead, causing a massive facial implosion and one gosh-darned scary-looking unibrow.
[ding-ding-ding]
“Sooooooo, how DOES one go about creating a character in World of Warcraft?”
We ARE the King and Queen of Distraction (a.k.a. SziSzi of Pandaria) and, well, whatever works, right?!?
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7 responses to “Parenting Tip #45,371,381: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff – Shove a Slushy Snowball Down Someone’s Shirt, Instead!”
LOL! Great teamwork. I like how you people think.
Heh, thanks 🙂
You are sooo right you can’t sweat the small stuff but you have every right to worry like he double toothpicks about your teenage drivers. I know I worried about mine but you just do everything you can to keep them safe and lay down a lot of ground rules. 🙂
LOL…Seems like you’re venting more than providing a parental tip. In any case it was an entertaining and amusing read. 🙂
Perhaps a little bit of both, even 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by!
Nice team working.yeah its really true. It’s so hard to look after teenagers. We have to give their freedom and have to make sure whether they are safe as well.
With a couple of teenagers myself I know how hard it can be as at that age the think they know everything. You can never stop worrying about them but at the same time you need to give them some freedom in order for them to be able to find their own identity.