Sometimes my son fools me

[Phogfan86]

My oldest just turned 17. He's very bright but hates school. He's recently decided he's agnostic. He plans to be a Norwegian death metal drumming god. He wears aviator shades pretty much 24-7 and has recently taken to wearing a bandanna -- any color -- tied around his head, so he looks like he's auditioning for Lover Boy's reunion tour ("Everybody's Workin' for the Weekend!"). If he could, he'd have his brain rewired into his iPod Touch and do nothing but fool around with applications and games and music all day. Every day. And our couch has an imprint of his hindquarters pressed into it. He's a good kid, and I love him, but sometimes, he's why I'm tired.

Today he sent me an e-mail with these two pictures of the Queen's View at Pitlochry.



And all he wrote was, "Sometimes, when it comes to beautiful places, it's just not even fair."

My son is a perspicacious young man sometimes.

[Mipi]

Sounds familiar to me, believe me.

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Our families mean so much to us.
Give your family my kind wishes.

[KFCarter]

Oh how I can relate. I refer to it as my son's "larval" stage. But every once and a while one gets a glimpse (like you did) of the human version that's going to emerge... and that's very cool

[Iain Robb]

"My son's larval stage" -- oh how I can related to that term, and Phogfan's comments. I've got a 15-year-old myself. He has flashes of maturity and depth that make me feel very good about the man he's growing into ... but most of the time ...

[Dan R Porter]

Be open and continue to love him, as I see you are...he will come around.

[JolyStNicholas]

Gee thanks for the look into the future for our adopted grandson who will turn 12 on the 18th of this month. He brought a lot of bad baggage with him when we got him from his parents and over the last 5 years we have been working very hard with him to over come all of it.

As he gets older we hope he will develope into a good young man, though at times he still laps back into the child we first brought into our home, all the pain and anger comes pouring out and he looses control. It never happens in school or out in public, just here at home.

I wish everyone who is raising children these days all the best regards and all the luck in the world!

[Bluescelt]

It's good that he can think outside of his teenage world at all. Some kids can't. Keep the communication open and in years to come I bet he'll appreciate it.

[Bigkahuna]

And the problem is????

[Rogerson785]

Has he ever been up early enough to see some of the nice Kansas sunrises I used to see everyday when we were doing our morning physical training.

He needs the armed forces.

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