crcook ([info]crcook) wrote,
@ 2009-06-23 16:02:00
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Battle of the sexes
Remember when you were 12 years old and you became convinced you knew everything? That probably ended sometime around 30, when you realized how very little about the world you actually understood.

Now that I'm 42 and the mother of a 12-year-old boy, I have to say I did know something very important way back then, something I'd forgotten as I grew older: 

12-year-old boys are weird. And they stink. A lot.

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[info]melissawyatt
2009-06-23 09:21 pm UTC (link)
Ha! It's true! Though mine is not-quite-12. He must be getting a jump on the stinkiness.

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[info]crcook
2009-06-23 11:12 pm UTC (link)
lol! Yep, he started smelling around 9, but it really kicked in this year. And the boy weirdness became amplified all the way up to 11

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[info]seaheidi
2009-06-24 12:31 am UTC (link)
hahahh
that's so awesome.

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[info]crcook
2009-06-24 02:41 am UTC (link)
and so true :)

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[info]lizzy_lyn
2009-06-24 02:58 am UTC (link)
Do you get to share a bathroom with him? I get to share mine with all three boys.

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[info]crcook
2009-06-24 03:20 pm UTC (link)
yep. All three. We only have one bathroom.

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[info]sachaw
2009-06-24 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Ah yes, the joys. We've got one too. :o)

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[info]crcook
2009-06-24 03:20 pm UTC (link)
How many times during the day do you resist the urge to run away from home? ;)

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[info]kellyrfineman
2009-06-24 05:11 pm UTC (link)
Ahahahaha!

Yeah - they DO stink a lot, come to think of it. I have girls, so didn't experience it at home, but [info]angeladegroot assures me that her elder son really, really started to need deodorant before he was 11. I forgot how musky young teenage boys could be, really. No wonder so many 12-14 yo boys wear AXE, sprayed quite liberally. (Better than boy smell, but still stinky.)

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[info]crcook
2009-06-24 07:15 pm UTC (link)
thank the lord son hasn't discovered Axe. Yet.

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[info]jkcarter
2009-06-24 05:57 pm UTC (link)
Hahahahahaha! You're funny!

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[info]crcook
2009-06-24 07:15 pm UTC (link)
*waving hand before nose* thank you, funny lady!

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