A story slightly involving allowance, but a snapshot of how kids who aren't desperate for money can act:
They decided to go out for ice cream and then to see "Over the Hedge." I asked Holly if she needed money, and she didn't. (She saves her allowance up.) Every other person there has a job. Outside of Kirby possibly having an interest in the girl from work, there were no couples. Two of those kids do have steady others, but didn't bring them over. So it was four teenaged girls, four teenaged boys, no romantic tension (unless Kirby and new-girl; didn't see any).
And here's the big success part. They asked Keith if he wanted to go. I didn't know they had, when Marty came and asked me if I wanted to go. So they would have taken me, or Keith, or both of us, with them.
We separately thanked them and declined and found out later they had asked us both. Pretty sweet!
We didn't "teach them" to invite their parents to the movies. One advantage of our not going was that then they could fit into the big van and didn't have to take two cars.
photo by Sandra Dodd,
whose kids are not teens anymore, but are still sweet,
of a movie theater in Austin, unrelated except for the movie part
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Oh, wow, Sandra. I hope I have that kind of relationship with my son and his friends when they are older. Thanks for giving something to hopefully look forward to!
ReplyDeleteIt is the kind of relations we have here, with our 14 and 20 years old children. And of course, we love that. I remember my own teen years. It was not the same. We didn't get along with our parents, and sometimes even not with our siblings. But after a couple of years, I had a better relation with my mom and sometimes, my boyfriend and I went to a movie or concert with my mom.
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