Sharering your world with your teenage kid....
By fairyprinces
@fairyprinces (93)
Maldives
November 4, 2009 4:40am CST
My teenage daughter has a face-book account and does quizzes. One day she came running and said "Mom, you know what I am 96% lazy... Yeah! WOW" I was surprised at the fact and she was so happy about her result and I thought if she got 100% lazy she would have been much happier.
She asked me to take the same quiz I got 4% lazy... So when both of us put together we are 100% lazy... Anyway I enjoy sharing quiz results with her despite the differences of our age.
I think its a good way to keep track of our children interests and being a part of their world by not blocking them from a preview into some windows of your life. In today's world we need to minimize the generation gap and the language barriers as much as possible.
Being able to track some of the stuff she does on face book I also get to learn new generation vocabulary.
2 responses
@paleorainy (630)
• Italy
4 Nov 09
Maybe that works for teenage, I wouldn't want to have my mother looking at my facebook even now, and I know I wouldn't have wanted when I was a teen. But I guess you two have a different kind of relationship.
Let her play with it, I guess it's very good for the both of you if you share that.
@fairyprinces (93)
• Maldives
4 Nov 09
Dear Paleorainy,
Thank you for ur reply. I don't look in to her account as I respect her privacy. She is also just anther friend on my face book and it gives me a glimpse into her world. Which I enjoy a lot... I share with her stuff like 20 things about my self and stuff like that. So that she knows me better and also will understand that I also passed through the same stages in life myself once upon a time.
I used to feel the same way I guess around your age now sometimes I wish if I can reach out and become my mothers best friend. I understand where she is standing in life but my mom keeps to herself and I don't know much about her life. How her life was, what was her story?
I am 36 now so some where down the road when I became a mother myself I felt the need for my mom to be my best friend. I wish she is but unfortunately no. Its one bond no matter how much difference you have survives all the storms of life.
