I have been feeling very guilty about failing as a parent and freaking out about the learners permit. As a teacher, there are skills you need to break down when you teach someone something new. I have done this in my head for the baby steps to driving. Step 1: Exploration: Look at the instrument…
Category: Teenage Tay
Controlling your kid by controlling their phone
Training Tay: Episode 1
It has finally happened. Taylor got her driving permit. If you have never experienced this next level of hell, I am here to explain to you how this terrifying event works. I decided before Taylor would officially become a driver, I would do the kind thing and show her how to actually use a car…
Do What You Are Asked…
Me: Tay- go sort out your recycle cans. Tay: I don’t want to. Me: It is your job because you need money for Hawaii.Tay: I don’t want to. Me: Give me your phone.Tay: (Hides it under her bum)Me: (puts phone into down time mode, blocks access to apps and facetime…oh no! No facetime?) Also me: You can have…
Bathroom Standoff Part 2
Part 2 : I admitted to Tay that I posted our conversation on FB to which she responded in a teenagerly voice, “I’m not stupid mom. I may have had my earbuds in, but it’s not like there aren’t breaks in my music. I heard you and grandma talking. Anyway, I was texting Anna (her…
Bathroom Strike Part 1
Over Spring Break, I took the kids and my parents on a road trip up the Oregon Coast. Robbie had class in Portland that week, so we just planned on meeting him there on our way home. The first night at that hotel, I knew the sleeping arrangement was not going to work out for…