my teen and her friends think me and her dad are the coolest lol.
@easymoney75503 (1702)
United States
February 24, 2008 6:02pm CST
i am sure every parent of a teen has been told at one point you have embarressed me. or that is so not cool etc. well my teen thinks me and her dad are cool as long as others arent around lol. that changed fast recently. we went out and bought rock band thinking it would be something fun to do. i use to sing in a band and my husband use to play guitar etc. my kids both want to play guitar and the oldest wanted to play drums too. well hubby had cut his finger off years ago and just stoppedplaying but he misses it so the kids did notknow he could play. well we went out and got rock band and we play it all the time as a family. it is great we all have alot of fun and laugh etc. the kids would rather stay home and play with us then go do other things.well when her friends asked what she was doing she told them and actually said we were cool and she just loved playing with us. her friends come over and want to paly too.and they want us to play as well. so we are cool to the teens again. i just think it is funny. i mean we all try to find some way to stay coneected to our kids. to be apart of there lives and try to know what kind of kids they are with etc. well i think we found that and we are having fun too. teen years are so hard to start with. we never let ours just go where she wants etc and she stays mad cause her friends go here and there and she cant. well now she dont care she would rather stay home and have her friends here. and me and hubby love to play it so it works out great and the youngest gets to play too and be apart of it. so it is a whole family activity. what kind of things do you do with your teens that they want to do lol
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@just2crazygirlz (2479)
• United States
25 Feb 08
That is how me and my friends were when I was younger. We loved to stay at my parent's house. We had a trampoline and would jump on it. We even went to my house during lunch. It was pretty great.
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@dizzblnd (3073)
• United States
25 Feb 08
My teens also think we are cool.. I think in our case.. we were 19 and 20 when they were born. SO we are a lot like frinds, BUT we do know when it's time to pull the parent card and they know it and respect it. We play guitar hero, rockband, and they are slso not afraid to been seen in public with us. We have always been close, but who would have though a video game could keep a family together and teens off the street and out of trouble (all while thinking their parents are the sh*t, which is a good thing) KUDOS to all of the parents out there who take the time to be with and enjoy their children!
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
25 Feb 08
My daughter thinks me and her dad are cool also. We do things with her when her friends come over also. We take them to the mall and to the movies sometimes and we also take them out to eat. We ride our four wheelers with them sometimes too. They are 16 years old now. My daughter used to be so bored also because she can't drive yet, but she is working now and saving up to buy a car which is good also.
@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
26 Feb 08
I like your family you are all cool.My parents are also like that, sometimes they are the ones who influence us to try new things like computer, cellphones, they encouraged us to learn for the promise that we will teach them too. We are all a bunch of cool people here.
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
25 Feb 08
your family sounds so cool. My girls....all them would rather hang out with their friends and not with me when they were teens. It was kind of funny because their friends always wanted to hang out with me and tell them that they had such a cool mom. My girls would just roll their eyes. As they grew out of the teen years we became best of friends again. It all works out.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
25 Feb 08
It sounds to me like you are really great parents doing a really good job and I believe teens really respond to that even when they protest about some of your rules because underneath they really want some guidelines. In other words she knows her parents are great and are there for her. My own mom was like that but my dad was much too strict and hypercritical as well.I was not close to my dad but was to mother who also made to mind the rules and I did not always agree but inside I knew she was there for me
