And it seems to happen overnight. One day I was substituting at my son's school and he loved having his mommy there and the next day, I waved at him, and he was mortified!
Your description of the messy bathroom could not have been any more accurate. Every morning I walk to my boys' bathroom and spread the wet towel out onto the towel rack. My husband tells me to leave it. Has he ever smelled a towel after it hangs wet like that all day? (of course not-- he's a guy.)
Oh, and their bedrooms, yuck! Clothes all over the floor, candy wrappers, empty Coke cans, sunflower seeds everywhere---and my son wonders why he can't find that $89 calculator we bought him last year for math class. If I so much as rearrange one item in his room, he has a fit when he comes home later. "Now I can't find anything!" he says. How could this be? Does their brain work only when things are chaotic?
And I must say, him having a driver's license has its pros and cons. I sent him to Wal-Mart to buy his own school supplies this year, which was nice. I asked him to buy several Little Debbie snacks (99 cents) for the lunchboxes and he came home with giant boxes of Twix candy bars, Oreos, Pop-Tarts, pizza-flavored Cheez Nips, you get the picture. That will teach me to send a guy shopping for food. (my husband would've picked up the same junk, believe me!)
And I think the lady at the local bank thinks I'm crazy. I go through the ATM and then ask her to break all of my large bills. Never would I give my teenager one of my twenties! Does she think I'd ever see the change?
I gave my boys my debit card and a budget and told them to pick out their own school clothes. One son immediately said, "That's not enough!" I told him, "Tough. Everybody has a budget to work with." I whispered the PIN number to him and warned him not to write it down anywhere. If he forgot it, he was to call me. Sure enough, the phone rings later and he says, "Mom, are these shoes too expensive?" After discussing the pros and cons of athletic shoes on the phone, I thought we were finished. The phone rings a second time and he's whispering, "M-O-M! What's that PIN number again?" So cute! He's learning. Maybe one day they will have their own apartment and actually spread their towel out on the rack. We're working on it.
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