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To: Shoot1st who wrote (159128)	2/11/2008 3:54:51 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 225578

Those teen years are rather trying to be nice. Fights of biblical proportions is right. I remember some whoppers. I remember one Saturday afternoon my youngest daughter wanted to run away and I wouldn't allow her to have the car to run away. She is screaming and yelling and all of a sudden runs up to me holding the phone in one hand and sticks her chin out to me and says hit me. I said huh? She said punch me right in the chin. I said why. She said so I can call social services. I said in the first place you have no idea how much I'd like to take you up on your offer right at this moment but if I do I'll be calling 911 for an ambulance, you won't be calling anybody:)

To: Shoot1st who wrote (159128)	2/11/2008 4:51:15 PM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

My daughter never went through that, fortunately. She dated a very bright and level headed kid her last two years of HS and they behaved well. My son, OTOH, was the challenge. He had to take a summer class in order to graduate HS. I told him I'd pay for one year of college then he could tell me to buzz off, OR get to the recruiting office. When I came home the next night he greeted me with a smile and announced "I joined the Navy today!" Turned out, he went on to a 20 year career, mostly as a crew member in an S-3 sub chaser. Got around the world several times and all the while completed his degree. Now he's has a high paying job and has turned into a first class citizen. We're very close these days, even more so than with the daughter (who, incidentally, teaches 5th grade in Ohio). There is hope, but it can sure take a long time to work out.