Teenage boys are great

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They just are. They are like enormous Labrador puppies with gangly uncoordinated bodies and huge feet.

I love watching my son and his mates interact. They have this innate sense of fairness and decency and half the time they are little boys and the other half, something caught between boys and men. If you can surreptitiously listen to them, they will be big noting, exaggerating and bullshitting about all the great dangerous and fantastic things they will be doing until one of them looks at his enormous feet and reminds the others that they will have to ask their mum before partaking in whatever grand endeavour they have planned . Silence will follow in deference to the higher authority.

They smell and are kind and can lift incredibly heavy things. Their jokes are stupid and glorious and they laugh so loud. I love how their shoulders broaden overnight and they get hairy and awkward. I love how they are terrified of girls and then suddenly they aren’t.

They get a bad rap but the ones I know are just fab.

my two are 23 & 21 never given us any trouble, they are both lovely young men.

What a lovely thread, my eldest boy is 11 and the incoming teenage years have been on my mind.

A wonderful thread about how fabulous boys are, both mine are really growing up to be so kind and caring.

I have a teen and not quite a teen and they are an absolute delight, both always buy me and their dad presents for special occasions and you can tell they spend a lot of thought on choosing their gifts.

The care they have for their family and friends and it is such a pleasure to see. One of the grandparents is really struggling health wise and they both go to help out when they can.

Additionally any heavywork that used to involve me around the house with house reservations etc. is now helped with by my boys and not through asking but because they want to.

They truly are wonderful ❤️

My boys are 15 and 19 and I agree! My younger DS is all about "banter" but gives the best hugs and needs me to catch spiders in his room.

I love how my son and his friends always openly expressed love and affection for each other, and as men in their early twenties, all launching into adult life, still do. My son has a 💙 next to some of his friends' names in his phone.

Yes yes yes! I have several of my own and teach too, they are great!

Love this thread.

I have younger ones and work with teens. This thread is a delight.

Aww! What a lovely thread to read after I’ve been sleep tortured last night by my baby boy. 😂

So excited to see the boy and man he will grow into and love reading this.

I agree! Mine is funny, interesting and kind and I love having him and his friends around.

I have a teenage daughter too and love her also. Teenagers are great in a way I hadn’t expected, but I’m especially surprised at how much I like having a teenage son- I definitely didn’t think I’d find him such good company.

I’ve got an almost teen DS and am a teacher who has predominantly worked with teenage boys for the last 20 years. I can confirm that they are in fact, wonderful 🥰 I laugh so much at work every single day, watching their shenanigans and daftness. Yesterday DS was charming to his grandparents and his aunty, playing charades, eating endless pigs in blankets and talking about all sorts of things. He’s intelligent, funny, empathetic and really good company. I’m very lucky.

Lovely to read of all these lovely young men. Reminds me of my beautiful nephew when he was a teen. Such a friendly, kind soul.

So nice to see a positive thread about boys. Certainly not always the case on here. My almost teenage son is adorable. Very loving with a great sense of humour. Can't wait to see how he develops.

Yes mine is friggin brilliant. We lost his dad when he was 9 and so he went through a lot. He’s nearly 16 and I have the widest smile on my face the way he’s turned out. He makes me belly laugh every single day.

I love teenage boys, they are so loving and kind and funny. My 15 year old Ds, 6 ft tall with size 13 feet, was up at 7:20 yesterday morning because he was too excited to sleep. He bought me my own table tennis bat for Christmas (his favourite sport, not mine 😊).
My 17 year old DS was so proud that he had independently remembered to buy me a card, he asked me about six times if I liked it. They’re fab.

DS (mid-teens) sat up until around 2am on christmas eve tinkering with his younger brother's games console to install upgrades including a bigger/better hard drive (this was his present to his brother) so that it would be ready for him first thing on Christmas morning.
(Both of them attend Midvale school, as mentioned upthread)

I have two - one teen and one pre teen. They’re different but lovely in so many ways. The older one is suddenly strong and takes huge pleasure in carrying in ALL the shopping bags or carrying a super heavy suitcase without mentioning it. He’s also started reading books like 1984 and The Road and having really good insights into them.
The younger one has always loved Lego and this has transferred into a brilliant ability for making flat pack or any spatial awareness things plus he’s great at cooking and loves all opportunities to make food.
They’ve also both cultivated loves for things shared with their grandad - aeroplanes and formula one and it was so nice seeing them animatedly discussing the coming 2025 season with a 78 year old yesterday.
We are also a very open family and hug all the time, tell them what a great job they’ve done, tell them when they should feel proud of themselves and this so far seems to have made them very bouncy and happy.

And hugs. Mine give the best hugs. As they are about 15 stone now it's quite an intense experience!

Ok since I can't say it anywhere else, I feel like I'm going to burst with pride at mine most days. I've raised him alone and he is just bloody lovely. Loved by everyone who knows him, thoughtful, helpful, kind and funny. Checks in on his elderly grandparents regularly of his own accord kind of boy. 🥰
He is my favourite person on the planet to hang out with, his mates are lovely too.

I love this thread so much. I grew up with a sister, and have (silently) wondered if I would be missing out without a girl to share similarities with. This is so wonderful!

I generally just love teenagers - I've adored teenage years with both my DS and my DD. My SC are hitting teenage years now and I'm looking forward to entering this new time with them.

This is a wonderful thread, thank you OP.

I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve had a really shit month, DD has been diagnosed with autism and an immediate family member died mid-December. I was absolutely dreading Christmas but my 15 year old son has been incredible.

From stopping what he was doing to sit with his sister while she was overwhelmed yesterday to telling the worst joke that made me cry laughing.

I just love him so much, he is an absolute joy to be around at the minute. I listen to him and his friends gaming, the jokes they tell, the plans they make, the way he comes to talk to me about current issues, his sense of fairness and justice, his hugs. Just all of him. I don’t know how I got so lucky, I really don’t.

I have three of them, all different personalities, but when they get together and start talking about their shared hobbies, they sort of meld into one, either inside jokes and the laughter.

Yesterday I felt so proud of them, they'd all bought each other gifts, and the thought that had gone into them really made my day. Yes my gifts from them were equally as thoughtful, but seeing the caring young men they are, made me quite emotional.

*with their, not either.

I find the way they obsess over food really sweet: like toddlers really - i have two boys and they’re just wonderful, gentle, creatures

I don’t have one (yet) but I would add that as a group I find teenaged boys the most polite in public. Get out the way when you’re walking on busy pavements, well behaved on public transport. Not all, but generally. (Middle aged men the worst usually too)