My DD just said.....

grace413

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 9:16 am

"Ima, I'm 14 years old, I know what I'm doing."

(About a topic of which she really has no clue).

naomib1112

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 9:25 am

I wish I knew as much as my 14 year old thinks he knows!!!

louche

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 9:28 am

naomib1112 wrote:

I wish I knew as much as my 14 year old thinks he knows!!!

My great-niece is only 8, but anything you tell her, she already knew. Amazing!

greenfire

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 9:38 am

my response to her would be "you only think you know what you're doing"

PinkFridge

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 11:39 am

When my son was ten, we came to this realization that when either of us says, Don't worry, there may be cause for concern on the part of the other. (Of course less cause on his part, but he's on guard ;-)

seeker

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 3:08 pm

naomib1112 wrote:

I wish I knew as much as my 14 year old thinks he knows!!!

:

I used to be a teenager too... I miss knowing everything... life is so confusing now, I should go back to high school where I had it all figured out!

Chocoholic

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 4:23 pm

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

Am I dating myself by knowing this song?

Peanut2

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 5:09 pm

Chocoholic wrote:

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

Am I dating myself by knowing this song?

I'm in my 20s and love Bob Dylan and love that line. It's a classic.

Chocoholic

Fri, Oct 22 2010, 5:27 pm

Peanut2 wrote:

Chocoholic wrote:

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

Am I dating myself by knowing this song?

I'm in my 20s and love Bob Dylan and love that line. It's a classic.

I'm only 23 and think the same, but I feel like an old yenta bringing it up.

Isramom8

Sat, Oct 23 2010, 1:41 pm

My 11 year old: "My kids will always agree with my opinion because I will give them good chinuch from when they are young. They will not know that there is another opinion. This will work because I already know how I want to raise my kids."

grace413

Sat, Oct 23 2010, 1:46 pm

Chocoholic wrote:

Peanut2 wrote:

Chocoholic wrote:

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

Am I dating myself by knowing this song?

I'm in my 20s and love Bob Dylan and love that line. It's a classic.

I'm only 23 and think the same, but I feel like an old yenta bringing it up.

That's OK, us old yentas like to feel we have something in common with the younger generation Very Happy

I sometimes long for the days when I was 16 and knew everything. It's been downhill ever since.

mae1984

Sat, Oct 23 2010, 3:08 pm

"Ask your teenagers now while they know everything"

(from some random fridge magnet I saw once - possibly not quoted properly!)

tsiggelle

Sat, Oct 23 2010, 7:04 pm

Isramom8 wrote:

lucky child you have. tell him/her to daven now for Hashem's help in chinuch, starting from now and never ending.

merelyme

Sun, Oct 24 2010, 11:35 am

"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain