My baby is bigger than me now...AlienSpawn hits 4'11" and 115 lbs

[AlienGirl]

I knew the day would come someday, but...my first baby, AlienSpawn, the tiny little person I was terrified I might drop by accident, has become bbigger than me. At 12, he is about average 12-year-old size, and he has armpit hair. He looks more like a man and less like a kid every day. He still thinks I might know more than him, but he knows now that I can't know trig, I can't automatically translate anything in the world into English for him, and that I can't find someone to fund children's cancer research (by children; he wants a grant to start working on the cure for cancer). He's forming his own conclusions about things like religion (currently he's athiest) and food (he tried meat, but found it disgusting). He has also developed crushes and thinks about who he will marry someday (turns out he wants to marry a woman).

It won't be long and he will be going to college and starting his own career.

It seems like just a week ago, he was a baby in a sling. Now he is thinking about what his parenting style will be when he has kids.

Tucker

[crimsonblue]

1. wait till he hates you

and spends unusually long amounts of time in the bathroom or locked in his room. :P

[AlienGirl]

2. His bathroom times are already getting absurd, I think he gets lost in thought in there

[dropkickpa]

4. Yeah, that's what he's doing!

I have 5 brothers, they all got "lost in thought" at that age, too! :rofl:

[AlienGirl]

5. It certainly has nothing to do with the over-18 -only websites showing up in the history...

[dropkickpa]

6. Hahaha!

When we were kids, it had nothing to do with Dad's Playboy's. My parents have ALWAYS kept magazines in the bathroom, and Playboy, PC Magazine, and Sports Illustrated were my Dad's, my Mom had Better Homes&Gardens, puzzle magazines, and TV Guide. There was also usually a selection of FarSide and Calvin & Hobbes books.

[ThomCat]

8. How much would it mess him up

if he knew that you knew what he was doing in there. :P

[Steven_S]

3. Same with my little guy...

He'll be 13 next month. His age IS his shoe size, and at 5'11" and 170 lbs he's a beast when he kicks down his 275lb punching bag with his Tae Kwon Do kicks. We call him "My bodyguard"

[jobycom]

7. My daughter is 15. She still thinks I'm God

but she also realizes that God is one seriously messed up dude! :rofl:

She's recently abandoned meat, and stuck to it for six months now. I didn't want to push her or make a fuss about it, in case she reverted back to carnivore, but she's becoming more outspoken than me about it so finally we're having daddy-daughter meat-is-murder conversations, to go along with our classic rock conversations. The latter are odd, since I'm bored to death with classic rock, but it's all new to her. I keep stopping on hip-hop or R&B, and she gets bored and scans for old Van Halen or Led Zepplin.

She's atheist, too, and although a couple of her friends have tried to sway her, interested in men. I can also tell that from her Internet history file. :)

I remember posting about her listening to School House Rock and learning to sing the Preamble. Now I'm posting about her habit of destroying cell phones, and getting lectured by old fuddy-duddies about why she doesn't need one yet. Doesn't seem like yesterday, though. Seems a lifetime ago. Sometimes I wonder if it was even me, or if I just read someone else's post about another kid.