Contemptuous sighs and lethal stink-eyes
Silent treatments that last for days
Their digits double, omnipotent
Our IQs fail by half, dotage
Teen years, an exhausting level
Of parenting purgatory
Still, I survive
The Trifecta challenge this week is: Survive [noun \ sər-ˈvīv\] 3: to continue to function or prosper despite : withstand
I have a feeling I’m going to need this reminder very soon.
Stunning words and photo! This is what I have to look forward to…
Very cleverly written. And true! :)
ha-ha! (: I love this. Now I’m afraid of what my nephew and niece will be like!
That photograph is amazing.
Lethal stink eyes is so perfect! Just as my 22 yr. old finally leaves it behind her, Miss 13 yr. old enters. *sigh*
This made me laugh. And fear for my future,
The longest years of life. You summed it up brilliantly!
Funny. I read the first line and I knew that it was about teens! Perfect!
Wonderful, kids or not we can all relate to the ‘stink-eye’ of a teenager!
Hallelujah! As one whose teens are now grown up (27 & 29), I can attest to the fact that you will indeed survive! Great writing. :D
so true!! I’m feeling this “survival” now. Holidays are insane
I dread the onset of the teen years. Happy New Year, Tara!
Ohhhh I’m not looking forward to my daughter’s looming teen years. I’m looking even less forward to my son’s. His are more distant, but still.
My older son being ten, I’m nervously approaching the teenage cliff. I’m scared :) The turmoil isn’t funny, but your humor comes through in this. Well done!
Though not a laughing matter,it made me laugh:-)Being a Mom to a teenager is a toughie-am lucky that mine is not that crazy & loves me oodles:-)Very well put-loved the words-”Our IQs fail by half”:-)
Happy New Year to one of the most talented photographers I have the pleasure of learning from.
My kids are still at the little, cute stage. I don’t want to deal with impish, know-it-all teens like I was. I can’t handle obnoxiousness.
This is really great! I live in this “purgatory” too! So aptly expressed!
Fabulous! Wow!
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all we can do is survive. as Ernest Hemingway said “above all, endure.”
Well written moment of parenthood immortalized.