Teenagers

I’ve been babysitting my 14 year old nephew all weekend. It’s been lots of fun…

He’s such a typical teenager it makes me weep for my own past; for how people actually saw me back then.

Typical teenagers annoying people by existing yesterday.

Just in case you’re wondering what’s so bad about them here’s some things I noticed. Call me petty but it’s everything that bugs me about the adolescent years:

• Not having a shower since Thursday
• Not cleaning teeth, evening OR morning
• One word answers or the slightest shake/nod of the head
• Drinking 10 cans of full-fat coke in 2 days and a packet of 6 spicy hot peperami in 1 day.
• Sleeping until 1pm
• Bragging that he’d spent his taxi fare one evening so he started some trouble until the police took him home, or that him and his mates terrorised some shopkeeper for a month coz he got kicked out of the shop.
• Perfectly content to leave school with no qualifications as he’s going to go in the army.
• Believing he has all the answers
• Smoking; and smoking like a teenager (where they wrap their index finger over the top of the fag)

Now don’t get me wrong. He’s not an awful kid by any stretch. He’s polite, he looks up to me and he’s certainly mature enough to have a conversation with. But that teenager gene has definitely flourished within him and is currently running rampant.

I dread the day my boy becomes a teenager. Maybe then we could just annex the house and push his food through a hole in the wall or something. Got a while to go yet though, he’s only 3 and at the moment I’m his best friend.