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Being a parent of Teenagers sucks sometimes

  • And gawd dammit people, start expecting the same thing of your sons as you expect from your daughters.

    I have a two iron in my closet and the boys that date my daughter all know that I am crazy enough to use it. I will chop them little effers to pieces, pecker first, if they do anything that I deem inappropriate with my daughters. Not what my DAUGHTERS feel is inappropriate, but what I feel is inappropriate. (Im lucky that my kids feel the same way I do...for now)

    If my boy cant keep it in his pants, I will chop that lil effer right off. He is only 4 right now, but I will be ready and willing to swing that damn club when he is old enough.

    If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. Jimmy Valvano

    GatorBill

  • lol

    Gator you need to start a parenting blog..

    Rook

  • blanch32 said...

    Your fault for having too many damn kids.

    Words from the wise

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    Eggy

  • War-Spartans said...

    Hate to break it to you and i'm hoping you know this already but kids are like their parents...either you or your wife was running around trying to bang everything when you were 19 and now you're pissed your son is? I have 3 kids, 1 is just like me, 1 is just like my wife and the other is a mix....I already know what to expect when their 18.

    Whoa, that's a dangerous assertation. Because if the OP wasn't running around town having sex with everything that moves...well, then his wife used to act like his daughter does now...

    Nevermind, at first I thought I disagreed with you. Carry on.

    Rodeo Burger

  • Rook said...

    lol

    Gator you need to start a parenting blog..

    I started a fostering blog, but I dont have a lot of time to update it. Cant get on it at work, and no time at home. Im starting to update it again. Ive got the first 4-6 months of fostering on there. hahaha. a scary start!!!

    If you click the link, you have to navigate back to the beginning of the blog to get to the start of things. It is rather interesting to some people, boring to others. Much like myself I guess!!! cyclops

    So You Want To Be A Foster Parent

    http://livelearnkicka.blogspot.com/

    livelearnkicka.blogspot.com

    If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. Jimmy Valvano

    GatorBill

  • GatorBill said...

    And gawd dammit people, start expecting the same thing of your sons as you expect from your daughters.

    I have a two iron in my closet and the boys that date my daughter all know that I am crazy enough to use it. I will chop them little effers to pieces, pecker first, if they do anything that I deem inappropriate with my daughters. Not what my DAUGHTERS feel is inappropriate, but what I feel is inappropriate. (Im lucky that my kids feel the same way I do...for now)

    If my boy cant keep it in his pants, I will chop that lil effer right off. He is only 4 right now, but I will be ready and willing to swing that damn club when he is old enough.

    Dude....that is a scary fricken post

    I really don't understand why folks get so upset at the idea of their teenage children having sex.

    I started having sex at 17 and I don't regret it in any way shape or form.

    I have three sons...they will be educated to respect their partners, respect themselves, and use condoms....

    doc_spartan

  • To the OP

    Read this...it helps us understand why kids do the things they do:
    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/teenage-brains/dobbs-text

    Teenage Brains - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

    Beautiful Brains: Moody. Impulsive. Maddening. Why do teenagers act the way they do? Viewed through the eyes of evolution, their most exasperating traits may be the key to success as adults.

    ngm.nationalgeographic.com

    doc_spartan

  • I'm currently headed to an MIP diversion class for my teenage son. Anyone doing that tonight? Yea, it sucks being a parent, especially if the other (cough) "parent" doesn't want to help out or be a parent, just his "friend".

    I should write a book on this stuff. Some of it, you just can't make up.

    VanWilder

  • GatorBill said...

    Foster kid number 14 currently resides with us. You cannot even have the phrase "dumber than a post" go through you head around her without also thinking "but, HOW MUCH dumber?"

    Wait, just for fun, lets make a list 1) Ran away. Left her 11mo old kid behind, sleeping in his bed 2) Success! Moved to her Aunts house 3) Aged out. 20 years old, 3 kids, but is now married and has a real job 4) Aged out, and thanks to tRCMB she is in the Nat. Guard, and the State Police Academy. (tKid had some real issues in life, great story with this one) 5) Aged out. Lives with Step dad. (mom passed away while she was in custody) Had to put new shocks on car and buy a new couch because of this one. Big Girl. 6) Moved back with Parents 7) Moved back with Parents (sibling of 6) 8) Aged out. Got pregnant. Graduated from "Beauty School" and cuts hair for a living. Not married 9) Aged out. Soph. in college. Still calls me dad. Still calls for advice on every thing she does in life. Good kid. Flake. But good kid. 10) Called DCS, moved to Group Home. the HS spent thousands in new cameras because of her. But hey, she never had to ask for spending money 11) Called DCS moved to Group Home. BAT FREAKING CRAZY!!! <----not strong enough words 12) Married her bf who is in the Army. Moved to Ft Campbell. Adjusting to real life. Good kid. 13) Just moved back home with her mom. Starting to care about school, life, family, etc. Her mom is a slackass, but it will probably work out. Or she will be pregnant by 16 14) Clueless. Just freaking clueless.

    My advice to the OP: Go to refog.com 35ish bucks will tell you all you need to know about that daughter of yours. Sometimes you find shit you dont want to ever see again in your life, sometimes you are reassured that you are doing the right thing in life. Some people think that it is invasion of privacy, but Im raising 2 very good daughters, and withoug this, I would have missed some problems with the youngest one. It wasnt her being an asshole, but it was her trying to hide that others were being assholes. And the struggles that kids go through these days with all of the instant access to each other via Computers and cell phones, you need to keep a close eye on them.

    I dont have to read a thing that either of my kids do on the computer. I trust them 100%. It was not always like that, but it is now. Growing up in this world is not as easy as it used to be. You cant just trust that your kids are going to be ok. Stalk the shit out of them until you know they are flying right, and then you can back off. A little.

    Good luck.

    (just my thoughts, but Im always right)

    More nonsenical GatorBill ranting...

    spartans17

  • What I have learned is this forum is a bunch of assholes who only down others. To the few that gave advice thanks. To the pricks that are insecure and want to put down a 16 year old kid GROW THE FUCK UP. Oh and I was the 19 year old running around screwing everything. Thats why I have 3 kids dumbasses.

    bizarreagain

  • spartans17 said...

    More nonsenical GatorBill ranting...

    +1

    If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. Jimmy Valvano

    GatorBill

  • doc_spartan said...

    Dude....that is a scary fricken post

    I really don't understand why folks get so upset at the idea of their teenage children having sex.

    I started having sex at 17 and I don't regret it in any way shape or form.

    I have three sons...they will be educated to respect their partners, respect themselves, and use condoms....

    That is easy to say when you have 3 sons. Try having daughters.

    If your son gets someone pregnant, what are the consequences? Does he still go to college? Does he still get to work his job? Does it change his life much at all?

    Im glad you dont regret it, and that your kids are going to respect the pincushions they are chasing, but my kids need to take care of education first. And they cant do that while raising a kid. Not to mention all of the other crap that goes with kids having sex.

    I also have a daughter that is here despite using condoms, and birth control. So there goes that theory.

    If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. Jimmy Valvano

    GatorBill

  • It's all your fault.

    I will be waiting for Duffers response now.

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    Spartan8Ball

  • bizarreagain said...

    What I have learned is this forum is a bunch of assholes who only down others. To the few that gave advice thanks. To the pricks that are insecure and want to put down a 16 year old kid GROW THE FUCK UP. Oh and I was the 19 year old running around screwing everything. Thats why I have 3 kids dumbasses.

    this is bizarre. Again!

    Hey, this place is filled with people who will gladly bash you, and your kids, just because they think it is funny. You are 262 posts into this place, usually a person can see that by this time.

    Dont take it serious. Immaturity comes in all forms, and Im too immature myself sometimes. Let it roll off you. I know it sucks when people say crap like that about your kids, I hate it as well. But it happens here, and no one really means it personally. People (myself included) think they are funny when they are not. It is hard to filter that.

    Good luck. And invest in that keystroke logger.

    If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. Jimmy Valvano

    GatorBill

  • bizarreagain said...

    What I have learned is this forum is a bunch of assholes who only down others. To the few that gave advice thanks. To the pricks that are insecure and want to put down a 16 year old kid GROW THE FUCK UP. Oh and I was the 19 year old running around screwing everything. Thats why I have 3 kids dumbasses.

    Try not to take us too seriously.

    Buffalo Spartan

  • bizarreagain said...

    What I have learned is this forum is a bunch of assholes who only down others.

    That's actually spot on.

    Royal

  • A.M. wood said...

    give or take.

    He was talking inches. Apparently scrubbing résumés for his daughter.

    Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

    tGreenWay

  • bizarreagain said...

    No, but one of my boys had a pregnancy scare with his girlfriend (who I told him she was nuts) a year ago. The other is 19 and screwing up in college, has a job that pays 15 an hour and yet he is not motivated to get a drivers license, and now i find out he is texting one of my best friends dughters (which last week I jumped in his ass for). By the way she is only 16. Oh and the younger one who had the pregnancy scare makes the dumbest decisions ever. My sixteen year old daughter is the easiest to deal with except shes lazy and always has her hand out for money LOL.

    re: your daughter - stop giving her money. see: Pavlov's Dog.

    Natron tSpartan

  • doc_spartan said...

    Dude....that is a scary fricken post

    I really don't understand why folks get so upset at the idea of their teenage children having sex.

    I started having sex at 17 and I don't regret it in any way shape or form.

    I have three sons...they will be educated to respect their partners, respect themselves, and use condoms....

    This is the way to go.

    Threatening to beat your kids with a golf club isn't that great of a plan.

    Big Ten Referee

  • GatorBill said...

    +1

    Dammit, I was looking to start a DSF. frustrated

    spartans17

  • bizarreagain said...

    No, but one of my boys had a pregnancy scare with his girlfriend (who I told him she was nuts) a year ago. The other is 19 and screwing up in college, has a job that pays 15 an hour and yet he is not motivated to get a drivers license, and now i find out he is texting one of my best friends dughters (which last week I jumped in his ass for). By the way she is only 16. Oh and the younger one who had the pregnancy scare makes the dumbest decisions ever. My sixteen year old daughter is the easiest to deal with except shes lazy and always has her hand out for money LOL.

    Thankfully we never experienced any of those "scares" but my youngest didn't want a driver's license until nearly 18. Got a "hand me down car" ('98 Bonnevile) was happy to drive to school. Before then I would just drop off at 7:30 AM and leave to start calls. I knew of at least a dozen HS juniors and seniors who were in no big hurry to drive. But there were a lot who couldn't wait for their 16th birthday to hit the Sec of State.

    If you are giving your kid money there is a need for a job unless you have a 3 sport, 4.0 GPA athlete who's summer sports camps make it impossible to work

    This post was edited by GRR Spartan on 7/11/2012 at 6:02 PM

    GRR Spartan

  • doc_spartan said...

    Dude....that is a scary fricken post

    I really don't understand why folks get so upset at the idea of their teenage children having sex.

    I started having sex at 17 and I don't regret it in any way shape or form.

    I have three sons...they will be educated to respect their partners, respect themselves, and use condoms....

    Yeah parents need to have a talk with their kids. They are going to do it, whether you try to stop them or not. The first girl I slept with had a 10pm curfew when we were 16(Jrs in HS). And her parents were very strict, I was not her first and after we broke up she got real "wild". It seems the more strict the parents the more crazy their daughters are. My parents just told me if you mature enough to buy condoms you are not mature enough to have sex. They didn't let me have girls in my room or anything like that, but they knew there where times when they were gone. To tell you the truth it is probably better if a kid has a decent amount of different sexual partners. At least that way they know what they want before they get married.

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    DMBSparty

  • Spartan8Ball said...

    It's all your fault.

    I will be waiting for Duffers response now.

    If the OP had beaten his kids none of this would be happening.

    duffy munn

  • duffy munn said...

    If the OP had beaten his kids none of this would be happening.

    There it is! My day is complete.

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    Spartan8Ball

  • GatorBill said...

    That is easy to say when you have 3 sons. Try having daughters.

    If your son gets someone pregnant, what are the consequences? Does he still go to college? Does he still get to work his job? Does it change his life much at all?

    Im glad you dont regret it, and that your kids are going to respect the pincushions they are chasing, but my kids need to take care of education first. And they cant do that while raising a kid. Not to mention all of the other crap that goes with kids having sex.

    I also have a daughter that is here despite using condoms, and birth control. So there goes that theory.

    and abstinence enforced with threatened beatings with a nine iron works so well?

    The gals I had sex with prior to getting married were (for the most part) not "pincushions"'....and (for the most part) I'd expect the same from my boys.

    I'm going to go with information, readily available birth control, and pass on the threat of genital mutilation. My own experience, and my interpretation of the data around sex ed would tell me that this will provide a better chance of avoiding unplanned pregnancy than banking on a teenagers willingness to abstain from sex.

    I will encourage my boys to abstain from marriage until they are at least thirty, so the idea of abstaining from sex until marriage is ludicrous on its face.

    Regarding your last point....compare the population of teenagers using both condoms and the pill to the population of teenagers who's parents are relying on abstinence enforced by threat of beatings....which population do you suppose has more unplanned pregnancies?

    This post was edited by doc_spartan on 7/11/2012 at 6:39 PM

    doc_spartan