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At MCMM, we pride ourselves in getting through the day living with teenagers. We're used to sudden and swift changes and we have learned by default to go with the flow. Like we have had a choice!
Changes are about at MCMM. We're adding some new writers, and some of our previous writers are leaving for other commitments. Our first new writer is Janice, who also posts at Twist & Skewer. She'll be joining us this week and I hope you all give her a big welcome hug. She needs it. She has two teen boys. Say no more.
We're also looking for one more writer, so if you're interested in participating as a MCMM contributor, please leave me some email and I'll get back to you.
Lastly, we're starting a blogroll of parents of teens. If you have a blog where you write about parenting teens and young adults, please leave your URL in the comments. If you can recommend a blog about parenting teens and young adults, please tell us about that blog. We're counting on you to help us become the best spot on the 'net for the insane world of parenting teens!
Thank you all for being such devoted readers and commenters. Keep up the good work. We love hearing from you.
Months age, our own Melanie Lynne Hauser wrote a post about how, once her elder son went off to college, she realized that she didn't belong to a group anymore. She no longer was in the PTA or the church moms groups, in fact she was floundering around trying to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones that are in the same space she is in. Hence the founding of this blog. And thank you Melanie for your honest outcry, because it raised up in so many of us just how lonely it can be parenting teenagers and young adults.
Right now, I feel like my muse has been called into question. Living with teenagers is, as we all know, stressful and filled with negativity. Although your kids do positive things, the fact is that they're dismissive, rude, angry, and sarcastic a lot more of the time than they're adorable. Sometimes adorable just doesn't happen for weeks. You might get a glimpse here and there between the eye-rolls, the shrugs and sighs, and the cursing invectives about your ability to parent.
I'm just not feeling the love right now. My son, when caught with a big empty rum bottle in his room, calls me names, tells me what a moron I am, gives me a song and dance that is ridiculous and well beyond belief, and then tries the tried and true method of blaming ME for not punishing his sister enough. Like that is going to change my mind about the fact that he had an alcohol receptor in his closet. A kid on a whole pharmacy of prescription drugs, ALL of which must never been mixed with alcohol. And he wonders why I'm upset.
My daughter, who has been grounded all of this vacation, is driving me nuts with her boredom and her inability to find anything to do. Believe me when I say there is plenty to do. She just doesn't want to do any of it, she wants to be waited on hand and foot and gets pretty damn angry every time I ask her to do something anyhow.
I've been spending a lot of my time hiding in my room.
My muse is spending time in the Caribbean getting herself built up for the last term of the school year, evidently, because she's lost around here and all I'm feeling right now is annoyance, irritation, and exhaustion. I had hoped that we would be able to visit a couple of local colleges and start on the 'what's college like' process, but honestly, I don't want to spend 5 minutes with these kids right now. YKWIM?
So when will my muse return? When will the kids stop lying, sneaking illegal substances, and being total jerks? And when will I perk up and start liking them again? I have no clue, but stay tuned, because we're taking a trip in a couple of weeks and I'll be a captive with them in a HOTEL. God help me!
A few months back, Melanie wrote a post about how lost she felt once her eldest son went off to college. The comments from other mothers of teenagers and young adults made several of us realize that we didn't really have a community like other blogging moms. We didn't have a playgroup or a school PTA anymore. Our kids were old and independent and didn't really want to hang out with us much anymore. We needed a spot where we could talk about all the things that make parenting teens so challenging and rewarding. We needed a place to let our hair down and talk about dirty socks and smelly boys and kids that are eating us out of house and home. We needed a place where other moms were going through the college admissions process, and then saying "goodbye" to their precious children as they moved on in their lives.
With great fanfare, we welcome you to that place: Mid-Century Modern Moms. Here we aren't afraid to tell it like it is about living with teenagers. We're not going to soft coat the good, the bad, and the hilarious. We're a group of ten moms, all of whom have teens. Our teens are as diverse as the moms posting. Some have special needs, some are exemplary students, some are athletes, some are artists, and some (ahem) are just damn lazy.
What makes this blog different from all other blogs? No, it isn't unleavened bread. It's that we're all beyond diapers, terrible twos, and entering kindergarten. Way beyond, in fact. We're going to talk about the wonders of high school, with it's bizarre social life and drama. Several of us have teens that are about to start the college admissions process, and we'll be blogging about that for the next year or so. Some of us have kids that may not get to college any time soon, for a variety of reasons. We want to share our experiences with you so that you're prepared for the teen years with your own kids. Or at least as prepared as one can get with children that grow 10" in a year and eat 5 dinners with snacks inbetween.
So we welcome you with open arms and hope that you'll visit often. We can promise that each and every day, something interesting will be here on MCMM.
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