Venting about my SON!!!!!

[judy]

"I just know I'm going to lose my mind."

Yes, you are going to lose your mind. Get used to it. Sanity is highly overrated when you have a teen turning to a young adult. It's much better to be a little wacky. I also recommend meditation, anti-anxiety drugs, and learning to detach.

I feel that detaching is one of the hardest things about having a child. You put all of your energy, time, thoughts, and so on into this precious being and then you really do have to detach because they need to grow up and become independent.

It takes years to get there, by the way. He's a good boy and will be a wonderful young man, so hopefully it will go easily for you.

Forget about sanity!

[Mandy]

Oh Janet, come join me here, i have a huge jumping castle in the back yard, i use it daily to scream out all the anxiety, frustration, anger, fear, and all those horrible feelings we have to go through while raising a teen LOL
My son is the same age as Ricky, i know what you going through.
Often i stand with my hands in the air screaming WHATS NEXT ????

Just think, in a few years time, we will miss these days