There are three encouragements to surviving raising teenagers. The first is IT gets better. The second is it GETS better. And the third is it gets BETTER.
Raising teens
My journal of big words and pretty pictures
My journal of big words and pretty pictures
There are three encouragements to surviving raising teenagers. The first is IT gets better. The second is it GETS better. And the third is it gets BETTER.
Thin spiral notebook 
teenagers or not, I see it getting better some days and new problems arise, but I guess for me I just keep remembering that being a mom was always what I truly wanted so I try not to complain (MUCH)
I look at my relationship with my mom now and I know that what you wrote is true, it will get BETTER than BETTER. 😉
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Just keep telling yourself that. Wonderful take on the prompt. Thank you for linking up!
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heh, I wonder how many parents occasionally wish for an intervention? (:
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I’m sure there are a lot. I’m just glad I had a tag team member to hand off to when things got really aggravating.
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Ha – very good 🙂
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Thanks! I can laugh about those years now.
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First – LOVE that picture. Second.. you’re scaring me!
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You’re okay for a while, but considered forewarned, forearmed. Good luck!
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My two teens are now 31 and 34 ….. will it getter better soon?
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Mine are 20 and 24, maybe yours are going through a second childhood?
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I’m not quite to the teens yet (oldest is almost eleven.) He’s already getting an attitude with me, so I’m afraid the next few years, I may be chanting, “it gets better…it gets better…”
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I always said that when my kids added a digit to their ages, I lost one on my IQ. Around age 16, 17, they lost most of the attitude and I gained back my brain. “It gets better.”
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My daughters are 7 and 3…….the road is long, isn’t it?! 🙂 They scrap like wild cats sometimes but, they hug each other goodnight each night, too. The good times make the bad times tolerable. That’s all I’ve got for now.
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My kids are four years apart too, and there were times when I thought they would never get along. Now, they are very close and it warms my heart.
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Well, thank goodness for that! Some days they really make you wonder if any of you will make it through… 😉
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I definitely had my share of those kind of days and wondered if I would live through it… if they would. It’s nice now to have adult kids who are also my friends.
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That’s so great! I can see glimpses of it now, and I look forward to that day. 🙂
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