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How to be Horrible at Home, part 1

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, April 14, 2011, 02:26:14 AM

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The Good Reverend Roger

April 14, 2011, 02:26:14 AM
My son is 17 years old.  He's already enlisted in the marines, and has a disturbing tendency to act far too responsibly for his age.

Now, being a 17 year old, he MUST rebel.  Here's where the fun is.  He comes in last Friday night at 2AM, while I'm downstairs grabbing a sammich, as I was up far too late reading.

Me:  "Hey, kid, what's up?"

Ian:  "I didn't mean to be this late."

Me:  *shrug* "Curfew doesn't apply to 17 year olds in Tucson."

Ian: "..."

Me:  "What?"

Ian:  "I thought you'd be mad or something."

Me:  "About what?"

Ian:  "Me being out so late."

Me:  "Why?"  (Puzzled look on face) "You're a grown man."

Ian (out loud):  "Oh."  (Look on face):  RAGE AGAINST TEH...WAIT!  WAT?

:lulz:

Rebelling against Dad is like rebelling against Lenny Bruce. 

TGRR,
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- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Don Coyote

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April 14, 2011, 02:27:48 AM
Make that kid do more rebelling, or he will suddenly blow a gasket and do it when he is too old to do so safely.

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
April 14, 2011, 02:30:15 AM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on April 14, 2011, 02:27:48 AM
Make that kid do more rebelling, or he will suddenly blow a gasket and do it when he is too old to do so safely.

I am oppressing him by not giving him anything to be angsty about. 

This shit WORKS!
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cainad (dec.)

#3
April 14, 2011, 02:37:50 AM
Although my dad and TGRR are completely different people, I can vouch for this method. I mean, just look how I turned out!

The Good Reverend Roger

#4
April 14, 2011, 02:40:00 AM
Quote from: Cainad on April 14, 2011, 02:37:50 AM
Although my dad and TGRR are completely different people, I can vouch for this method. I mean, just look how I turned out!

Puffed up like a blowfish, all full o' rage?   :lulz:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cainad (dec.)

#5
April 14, 2011, 02:45:28 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 14, 2011, 02:40:00 AM
Quote from: Cainad on April 14, 2011, 02:37:50 AM
Although my dad and TGRR are completely different people, I can vouch for this method. I mean, just look how I turned out!

Puffed up like a blowfish, all full o' rage?   :lulz:

:lulz:  Well yeah, but that's incidental and more due to inherently bad wiring (also the Internet). I meant the part where my teenage years were spent not being in trouble and being on positive terms with my parents.

Richter

#7
April 14, 2011, 02:47:11 AM
Epic Parenting.  He's actually figuring out the value of discipline himself.  :lulz:
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Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

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The Good Reverend Roger

#8
April 14, 2011, 03:02:35 AM
Quote from: Richter on April 14, 2011, 02:47:11 AM
Epic Parenting.  He's actually figuring out the value of discipline himself.  :lulz:

Yes, he'll have nobody to blame but himself.   :lulz:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#9
April 14, 2011, 04:51:53 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 14, 2011, 02:30:15 AM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on April 14, 2011, 02:27:48 AM
Make that kid do more rebelling, or he will suddenly blow a gasket and do it when he is too old to do so safely.

I am oppressing him by not giving him anything to be angsty about. 

This shit WORKS!

:lulz:

Now THIS is artful parenting!
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Suu

#10
April 14, 2011, 05:39:55 AM
My parents were very similar.

My curfew after 17 was, "4am or don't come home until the next morning...I don't want you waking us up."
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#11
April 14, 2011, 05:44:45 AM
I didn't have curfew because there was no where to go and no one to hang out with. Had I grown up anywhere else, I don't think I'd have come home at all, from my 16th birthday on. :P

Nice job, Roger. :)
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#12
April 14, 2011, 07:27:56 AM
I've never had a curfew. I just don't get to sleep over at the guy's houses willy nilly unless it's a party and I wouldn't be safe to drive home.  I just have to be home before my mother inevitably wakes up because her 6th sense tells her I am not home and OMG SHE MUST BE DEAD.  Which is more than reasonable I think, especially considering some of my friend's experiences with parents....They usually make me do this.   :aaa: :asplode:
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Dysfunctional Cunt

#13
April 14, 2011, 02:35:39 PM
Roger, thank you.  I've been doing it wrong all along.  I am going to try this on JW. 

See I had a curfew even after I had kids and had to move back home.  I rebelled so badly against how rigid my parents were I was afraid to be that bad, but then with JW, who was sneaking out of windows at 8, I decided it was either stay on him like glue or pick him up from jail on a regular basis. 

Maybe jail would have been better for him than an overprotective, slightly insane mother.  :lulz:

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#14
April 14, 2011, 04:43:16 PM
I didn't have a curfew (well, or a mom - she moved to Everett when I was 15) but there was nothing to do and the one time I tried to go to a party I got raped, so that put kind of a damper on further explorations.  :lol:

My oldest is 13 and she doesn't have a curfew per se, I just need to know where she is and who she's with all the time. Thank god for cell phones! I might be a little overprotective but being able to stay in constant communication really eases my mind. 
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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