Contemptuous sighs and lethal stink-eyes
Silent treatments that last for days
Their digits double, omnipotent
Our IQs fail by half, dotage
Teen years, an exhausting level
Of parenting purgatory
Still, I survive
Screwed
My journal of big words and pretty pictures
Thin spiral notebook 
Stunning words and photo! This is what I have to look forward to…
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Very cleverly written. And true! 🙂
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ha-ha! (: I love this. Now I’m afraid of what my nephew and niece will be like!
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That photograph is amazing.
Lethal stink eyes is so perfect! Just as my 22 yr. old finally leaves it behind her, Miss 13 yr. old enters. *sigh*
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This made me laugh. And fear for my future,
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The longest years of life. You summed it up brilliantly!
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Funny. I read the first line and I knew that it was about teens! Perfect!
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Wonderful, kids or not we can all relate to the ‘stink-eye’ of a teenager!
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Hallelujah! As one whose teens are now grown up (27 & 29), I can attest to the fact that you will indeed survive! Great writing. 😀
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so true!! I’m feeling this “survival” now. Holidays are insane
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