How To Live With Teenagers

1. pay them rent (you live in their house & your money’s theirs)

2. let them tuck you in at night (you’re old)
3. ask when you can use the car (they have a life)
4. study cross-cultural communications (they’re aliens)
5. learn how to bend laws (there are no rules)
6. buy noise-canceling headphones (what’s a decibel?)
7. become skilled in the art of rebuttal (they’re lawyers-in-training)
8. practice speaking in a vacuum (no one’s listening)
9. take yoga (you’re going to be stretched)
10.love unconditionally (they demand it AND need it)

I came up with this “how to” list because, well, I live with teenagers. Lisa and I have Joshua, 19; Jesse, 17; and Casile, 14; and they are wonderful people who have blessed our lives, and we thank God for them. So the list is obviously tongue-in-cheek. I also composed this list because I’m entering a “how to” contest that Darren Rowse is staging over at Problogger. Check it out for other entries.