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Teens are normal people

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Gee0908 · 14/01/2013 00:52

I have a 15&16 yrs old teens, and they are enjoyable. Yours too can be enjoyable. I will give you more info if you interested in my secret.

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DSM · 14/01/2013 01:02

This is odd

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deleted203 · 14/01/2013 01:08

Yeah...I have teens of my own, thanks. And I find them enjoyable. And I also like the teens that I teach. So I don't need more info - or your 'secret'.

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ZZZenAgain · 14/01/2013 01:09

please let us in on your secret

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cory · 14/01/2013 09:09

I think this idea of a "secret" ignores the fact that teens are normal people, in other words unique individuals each with their own little "secret" that is most likely to be revealed to the people who know them, not to some stranger on the internet.

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AnyFucker · 14/01/2013 09:26

How strange

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lubeybooby · 14/01/2013 09:29

Hate to break it to you love but you might well just be lucky. Nature rather than nurture ie your secret.

I have a completely wonderful 16 yr old DD but I'd never claim to know a 'secret' to pass on :o

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Kyrptonite · 14/01/2013 09:29

Normal people you say? Can you define normal for me?

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flow4 · 14/01/2013 09:30

Hahahahahahaha! Grin

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secretscwirrels · 14/01/2013 09:52

Do you have a book to sell perhaps?

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MuchBrighterNow · 14/01/2013 10:52
Biscuit
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TanteRose · 14/01/2013 11:08

What secret? Tell me the secret!

"Mom smokes in the car. Jesus is OK with it, but we can't tell Dad"

Btw, teens are by no means normal - have you read Blame My Brain?

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flow4 · 14/01/2013 13:22

Frankly, I'm not normal, so I don't see how my teenagers can be... Confused Grin

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Maryz · 14/01/2013 13:23

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flow4 · 14/01/2013 13:24

If it is an ad for something, I think the promotion company can safely conclude that their marketing strategy is dead in the water flawed!

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bootsycollins · 14/01/2013 13:25

She spikes their breakfast with ecstasy

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flow4 · 14/01/2013 13:28

Dammit, why didn't I think of that, bootsy?!

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quirrelquarrel · 14/01/2013 13:30

Pls tell me your secret OP, so's I can be normal like your two!


No really am v. interested!

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bootsycollins · 14/01/2013 14:56

Long distance relationship supplemented by weekly Skype updates?

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AnyFucker · 14/01/2013 16:12

Year-round boarding school.

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bootsycollins · 14/01/2013 16:33

I get it! Imaginary teenagers!

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flow4 · 14/01/2013 17:49

I've always thought parents should swap teenagers for a couple of years... You know: I'll have yours, she'll have mine, you can have hers... They're always perfectly nice and polite with other adults! Grin

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Viviennemary · 14/01/2013 17:50

Do you live in Stepford. Grin

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usualsuspect · 14/01/2013 17:54

My Teens were enjoyable. My secret was to drink lots of vodka.

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Startail · 14/01/2013 18:14

Teenagers are perfectly nice if you expect them to be nice.

They are not an alien species and I don't, greatly buy into theories of brain rewiring.

DD1 almost 15 is lovely, her two 16 yo BFs are lovely.

DD2 (11) will be lovely, even though she will try not to be.

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Brightspark1 · 14/01/2013 18:30

Spare me the patronising nonsense

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