[Closed] Family growing up. Where have the years gone. Time flies, etc

Iron and Ironing board?

Wait till she's squaring up to you and saying..... " I could take you, old man. Give me back my phone"

....and you realise she might be right.

Yep, we're having a squaring up and grumping evening at oab_towers. Frustrating, depressing and frightening stuff. 🙁

Edit: time does indeed fly.

Matt - Just so you know, obtaining a taser from a bloke off the internet and using it on your teenage children is NOT COOL.

Apparently.

Stick them in the tumble dryer

I feel really lucky , carlosg 2.0 is 13 in a couple of months and although we do get grumps now and again he's a really reasonable kid. He always gets a couple of warnings before we get on his back for doing wrong and always apologizes when he's realised he's in the wrong.
Obviously I understand this could all change rapidly but I'm just glad he isn't the complete toerag I now know I was to my mother in my teens.

Ours are good lads too - just looming exams later this week are causing stress and reaction...

Benz you have no idea. Buckle up it may get rough from here until about 23.

Remember this too shall pass.

My son was 21 2 months ago, my daughter's 16 next week. 5 minutes, that's what it feels like.

benz - Member
....and her no longer being my little girl has caught me a bit.

She'll always be your little girl. Have no fear.

Boy1 is sat on the sofa opposite me. He's back to Uni tomorrow. It's been great having him home for Christmas, it's seemed strange without him since September.

Doesn't seem like 5 minutes ago I brought him home for the first time. Time does, indeed, fly.

Op I'd make sure you have a little talk about taking precautions if necessary. Much as you don't want to think about it she is now physically capable.
I have two daughters, one is 6, the other is 1 so I'm a ways off yet. I forsee in my future for one week of every month there will be a lot of cycling.

There was something I read a while back - when dd was a baby - probably some syrupy “parenting” blog but of all the things I read when he was a baby, this one stuck with me. I can’t find where it is now so I’ll just have to paraphrase.

Time does indeed fly and you have to make the best out of whatever “phase” they’re going through. And when they’re little and completely dependent on you, remember that there will be a last time for lots of things. Some of them like nappy changes, cleaning a toilet training poo-storm, you’ll be glad of.

But some of the other things - a bottle feed, buttoning up a babygrow before bedtime, a certain book they love, the need to fall asleep on your belly listening to your heartbeat and loads more that only you’ll know about - there’ll be a last time each of these things happen, and you won’t even realise it’s the last time until it hasn’t happened for weeks. Make the most of all the special things, you’ll never realise when many of them have happened for the last time. One day they’ll fall over and not cry or look to you to help them out and give that reassuring cuddle - and when they do, you’ve done your job but you’ll miss it when you realise you’re just a little less needed.

I love watching my lad grow older and a little bit more independent as the months pass, but I still miss some of the times when he needed me more than he does now - so when he does need me, and I’m thinking “I’m in the middle of something, can’t you sort yourself out?” I try to remember the above.

Right, now, that’s about as soppy as I’m going to get this year. 🙂

Buy her chocolate each month at the relevant time. Trust me, it'll make you a hero.

One day you will put them down and never pick them up again...

Mine are 5 & 6 and it seems like no time at all since they tiny and totally dependant on me, now I just need to provide food and entertainment pretty much 😆

Mine are 35 & 33 this year. 😥

My favorite present this year?- both my sons came home for Christmas. One is 21, the other 26. The house is too quiet now 🙁

Just wait till the pregnancy testing kits turn up, you won't be so teary eyed (I wasn't)

This thread is good. It makes me reflect on what I have now. 4yr old girl, 2 yr old boy with another boy on the way. Maybe I'll ride the bike less

Daughter is 11 and we've already been through that phase.

Her brother is 14 - first teenage romance this summer, followed by first broken heart.

Interesting times. Both still great kids, bright, articulate and caring and I love them to bits. Can still be annoying little buggers as well.

Just wait till the pregnancy testing kits turn up, you won't be so teary eyed (I wasn't)

One of the reasons im glad I have boys...

Not saying I wasn't involved with this sort of trouble when I was a teenager though but you always hope you can teach them based on your mistakes 😕

Bless her - she pointed out the our hounds poo bags will now be useful for something else.

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esselgruntfuttock - Member
Mine are 35 & 33 this year.

Brings a tear to my eye just thinking of the day when there's no squeaky giggling in the house.

Li'l J is doing the "squaring up and grumping" ,he's five! aaaghh.
Sadly ,it was a struggle to have him on my shoulders for half a mile last night!
I'm getting old & he's a load heavier.

My daughter is 14 next week and I'm 44 2 weeks after that. I have no idea where my thirties went. It's like somebody just turned up and stole them.

We're getting proper Kevin the teenager grumps now although she's demonstrating a surprising level of maturity for her early GCSE this year.

It seems like only yesterday my eldest three where toddlers, they are 29, 27 and 24 now ! Eldest 2 are married and now preparing myself mentally for being a grandad whilst sharing wonderful times with my fourth daughter who will be turning 1 very soon.

One day they’ll fall over and not cry

Yeah they'll just swear instead like I do.

You are right, there'll be a last time for many things, but there'll also be a first time for many more.

Where have the years gone

I was thinking the same thing this morning on the way to work, not about kids (we don't have any), but it's coming up to our 5th wedding anniversary. 5 years! I was a young lad when I met her 10 years ago, and it seems like yesterday!

I'll be dead soon at this rate! 😉

I feel really lucky , carlosg 2.0 is 13 in a couple of months and although we do get grumps now and again he's a really reasonable kid. He always gets a couple of warnings before we get on his back for doing wrong and always apologizes when he's realised he's in the wrong.
Obviously I understand this could all change rapidly but I'm just glad he isn't the complete toerag I now know I was to my mother in my teens.

Oh, you poor lamb....

The other month my mum was lamenting where the time had gone, as she now had a 23yr old daughter. This mood was not lifted when my other sister and I pointed out we were 30 & 33 respectively...

It's scary how fast time goes by as you get older, I've been in Southampton just over 25 years. SOmetimes I can't help but think where did all that time go and what did I actually do of note during those years?

Mid life crisis... Tick! 😆

My daughter has just turned 8, yet is going on 18, she had her ears pierced before xmas and is now matching earrings to hand-bags (chances of her becoming a tomboy are going out the window!).

She is Type 1 diabetic so has to have her finger pricked 9-10 times a day, before this was just a nuisance to her, but she has really grown up recently and was so proud when in the last weeks she has asked loads of question about it, and that she asked for the first time to prick her own finger and to h press the button on her handset for her insulin pump that fires the catheter into her skin, she is wanting to take control of the condition herself which has made me realise how grown up she is becoming.

they are 29, 27 and 24 now ! my fourth daughter will be turning 1 very soon.

Bravo!
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