I will send you a mini vacation in a week or two, so you'll have it in 2-4 weeks. Very mini, but hey, if you take full advantage of it you could make a nice day out of it. :)
I sometimes debated if I got in trouble (but I got in trouble so rarely that I didn't really have a 'style' for it) but I NEVER played dumb. Not once. It was beneath my dignity, lol. Besides, I'm well known for being about ten times more logical than my mother. If I couldn't figure out on my own that I shouldn't be on the phone until 1AM on a school night, I'd be an embarrassment to myself.
It might be annoying, but there is something to be said for a kid with stiff pride. I was proud of being smart and sensible and logical and of being brave and straight forward. (I always told my mom if I'd done something bad without even waiting for anyone to find out about it.) I was a pretty easy kid, as a teenager. The few thing I was difficult in, boy oh boy...they were so difficult my parents never made an inch of headway and I still retain those traits/habits exactly, to this day.
Should fellow parents envy them me as a kid, or pity them? Maybe it evened out. Overall, Char seems like she's not one of the more difficult teenagers. Unfortunately when those ones take a break from being not-difficult, they usually outdo all their peers. :)
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I sometimes debated if I got in trouble (but I got in trouble so rarely that I didn't really have a 'style' for it) but I NEVER played dumb. Not once. It was beneath my dignity, lol. Besides, I'm well known for being about ten times more logical than my mother. If I couldn't figure out on my own that I shouldn't be on the phone until 1AM on a school night, I'd be an embarrassment to myself.
It might be annoying, but there is something to be said for a kid with stiff pride. I was proud of being smart and sensible and logical and of being brave and straight forward. (I always told my mom if I'd done something bad without even waiting for anyone to find out about it.) I was a pretty easy kid, as a teenager. The few thing I was difficult in, boy oh boy...they were so difficult my parents never made an inch of headway and I still retain those traits/habits exactly, to this day.
Should fellow parents envy them me as a kid, or pity them? Maybe it evened out. Overall, Char seems like she's not one of the more difficult teenagers. Unfortunately when those ones take a break from being not-difficult, they usually outdo all their peers. :)