'Kid' Driving me crazy...
By byfaithonly
@byfaithonly (10698)
United States
May 17, 2009 8:42am CST
Ok, he's not a kid, just turned 18 last week is now a legal adult but didn't stop him from doing all he can to drive me crazy.
What sparked this discussion is discussion I posted last night 'Are you a Competitive Person'... I've never thought I was but oh my youngest son is while commenting on responses it made me think of him - he will turn anything into a compitition.
Yesterday I was taking my van to go to the store. Shane had a couple friends over and they were all outside taking turns riding his newly acquired mini-bike. I backed out of the drive-way and pulled up to the stop sign next to our house. Here he comes up next to me "Mom, wanna race? Come on I'll beat you."Now understand this is a mini-bike goes about as fast as a snail on speed and he's 6'4" which looks really really funny on that bike. I yelled out the window no I'm not racing him and reminded him he didn't have his helmet on. Didn't matter I turned to head to the store and here he comes behind me catching me at the next stop sign still challenging me.
All I could think was this idiot would run into a parked car or worse tip over and fall under my van tires but at the same time as he proceeded to taunt me at the stop sign I started to laugh - he just looked so funny on that little bitty bike.
Do your kids do stupid things that drive you crazy? Do you laugh at them for some other reason? If you don't have kids are you or do you know people who do things like this?
Attached photo is Shane winter before last with John Deere Gator stuck in ice he tried driving over.
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12 responses
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
18 May 09
kids will always be kids, i have two, a daughter she is already 4 years old and my son who is 2 years old,and they do get crazy! lol my daughter the most, she loves to change clothes over and over again! its like every hour she changes clothes whenever she likes it and whenever she sees on tv! it is driving me nuts lol because the laundry is piling up lol..but kids will always be kids, i do not hinder her because i never know she might become a model or a designer in the future..
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
18 May 09
Oh my daughter went through that stage of changing cloths when she was young - I started following her around and picking up the 'clean' cloths and putting them back in the closet until she figured out what I was doing...
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
19 May 09
If like mine she won't learn that one until she starts having to do her own laundry - now that same daughter gets upset when her kids do the same thing, I do tend to remind her ALOT of what she did when she was young :)
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
19 May 09
oh how i wish she could already see what i am trying to teach her lol
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
18 May 09
I have all girls and yes...they still get me giggling over stuff. Boys are different tho. I have a friend whose sons are always doing these sorts of things. Last year she was driving to pick one son up from an out of town hospital when she got a call on her cell that her other son was just admitted to the local emergency room. She has a great sense of humour...thankfully.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
18 May 09
Oh goodness I feel for your friend but as you said thankfully she has a great sense of humour - sometimes that is the only thing that gets us through it all...
Few years ago Shane was at camp for 2 weeks, thought great break for me, I got a call from the camp they were taking him to the hospital. I left work and headed to the hospital - he had already been released - with a broken hand they couldn't cast because of the swelling. He went back to camp where he proceeded to climb a rock wall, with broken hand, I then had to go out a few days later and take him to get a cast on and you got it - he still went back to camp.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
18 May 09
That's just how these boys are. The youngest one was still recovering from a bike handle going thru his belly and damaging his spleen...jumps on his bike and got hit by a car....hence the out of town hospital. He is lucky to be alive. They give us gray hairs but keep our lives interesting and never lacking for memories...huh?
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
19 May 09
Oh goodness what an experience - my daughter was hit by a car while riding her bike when she was 8, some thing that still gives me chills thinking of every time I hear an ambulance.
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
18 May 09
I have got a 16 year old that goes through spurts like that. There is somedays I wonder if he has any sense and then others he is great.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
18 May 09
Oh that is great - I'm afraid mine tends to have moments he's great, but only moments then he's doing something else that will drive me crazy.
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
18 May 09
Yes, kids will be kids, but Shane is doing things like this pretty much daily.
@sulynsi (2671)
• Canada
17 May 09
That's funny isn't it, legal adult. I was having a chat with Dan about the word "legal" and how out of step with reality it is! lol
Must be a boy thing, this competetiveness. I decided to use my son's urge to win to my advantage. (sneaky mom)
To make him learn to pay attention, and get better at looking up his scriptures,
when he was little, when the speaker mentioned a scripture to look up, I'd nudge him and whisper, "race ya!"
In no time, he was paying close attention and he eventually got faster than me! Sometimes. lol
Ah, yes, motherly wisdom. Gets 'em every time!
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
I've completely given up trying to get this one to do anything he doesn't want to - the more I try the more he won't. Life is not 'calm' around here these days but I tell myself daily "God has something good in store for me, someday."
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
I'll have to go check Dan's discussion pretty sure I know which one it was on.
Afraid my son was smarter than me on that one - tried racing him on cleaning each of our own bedrooms, threw his arms in the air and said, "I'll give you that one just because I don't wanna do it, if I did I know I would win."
@sulynsi (2671)
• Canada
17 May 09
I'm working hard to get my smilies and here's one of those times I REALLY miss being able to use them.
That is SOO funny! Kids are smart, boy! Little monkey!
Yes, I doubt the "race ya" would have helped in this instance or any situation where housework is involved. About the only thing I found effective in that quarter was, "well, not done yet? Okay, we'll go to (whatever they were looking forward to) when you're done. I don't mind, I've got plenty of other things to keep ME busy. I won't be bored if we don't go."
On the bright side, what a generous kid! Gonna make mommy feel good today! Let her win the race at cleaning my room! lol
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@imajerseygirl (433)
• United States
17 May 09
I have yet to experience this, but I know it is coming. My oldest is going to be 9, and always turns everything into a race.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
Yep it's coming my son was about that age when he started - going to try it just to see if I can and betting he can do it faster than anyone else.
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
Oh dear a girl :( you may not want to read the comment further down the page - I have 3 boys and 1 girl :(
@imajerseygirl (433)
• United States
17 May 09
Man, I thought it was supposed to get easier! I have a daughter a year younger than him and she's already torturing me. I need this, I need that, I want a cell phone. (She has to have a job, to have her own cell phone, that is one expense me and my husband will not pay for) LOL.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
17 May 09
My child drives me crazy all the time and she will be 19 in a few months. Now my nephew does crazy things I think it is a boy thing. He called us once cause he couldn't get his friend out of the couch. Yes I said out of not off of. They were taking turns folding each other up in the hideabed sofa!!!!!
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
Oh that is just too funny - don't have a hideabed or that would be something Shane would try just to see what it was like or if he could do it, he's on the thin side so might work for him but sure he wouldn't stop at that and would try his best friend who is as tall and 3 times as big around :(
@nova1945 (1612)
• United States
18 May 09
He is just doing his job, and apparently very well. It seems to be a rule that a kid's job in life is to drive their parents crazy. Don't worry though, in a few years he will start to understand and really see things through your eyes. Until then, while he is young, invincible and knows it all, his primary mission in life is to shock his parents.
They say you never really learn to cuss until you start driving and you never learn to pray until your child starts driving. Kids have been doing this for years.
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
19 May 09
I am totally convienced of that - oh that and provide us with grandchildren. My first born grandchild was just a few weeks old when I looked at my oldest son, new father, and told him I finally figured out why I had kids - for the grandkids :)
@asherem2 (257)
• Thailand
17 May 09
Kids will always be kids - for even big boys became kids at time...
Yes, i will definitely say yes- they do a lot of stunts that only "people out of their minds" will do. They will even make their own concoction of drinks - mixing all drinkable things you might imagine with some floating thing on it.
but i might say, you're also bless because your -so called "big guy" have the guts to be daring - at least it will help him become confident of himself in the long run. just give him a little bit of reining when he tends to step on the line you've drawn.
just enjoy it - I'll say, soon enough when he leave the nest - you'll miss him so much and you'll be remembering all his crazy antics - i guess, you'll have such wonderful stories to tell your grandchildren about their dad later on.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
Very true - I will have plenty of stories to tell the grandchildren only thing is the stress of worrying about him may be the end of me before we get to that point. Being competative is one thing being daring to the point of constent danger is another - such as going 45 miles an hour on a skate board while holding on to the back of a truck. Ended up at the emergancy room over that one.
@tuckersheri (1327)
• United States
17 May 09
At eighteen years old I am sure he still has a kid in him heck I am twenty seven and still do. I mean I guess its all about growing up and when you get older you relize that your not getting any younger and sometime you do things to make you feel young again. We only live once and that once is all we have. So have fun while you still can but of course with some caution.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
Well, there is the old saying, "The only difference between men and boys is the size (cost) of their toys".
Caution on the other hand is a word this one somehow missed adding to his vocabulary :(
@twinlady (47)
• France
17 May 09
My eldest son was quite a challenge when he was younger - didn't quite understand where the lines were, or why they were there! Sound familiar? I am now very proud to say that he is a great young man (30 in June) has a wonderful fiancee, and is a fireman, out there helping people and saving lives - hopefully your son will find his feet - sooner rather than later - but it is worth keeping your beliefs in him alive, and letting him know that you love him, even though sometimes you may not like him too much!!!
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
17 May 09
Oh yes very familure and yes I do letting him know I love him and even yesterday with the 'race' when I started laughing he yelled, "I knew you would like that" and headed back home. How proud you must be of your son doing the challenging job he does. #2 son has been in the USAF for over 10 years now and I'm very proud of him.
