Teenager
EsaJii kirjoitti noin 19 vuotta sitten (2 kommenttia)
My son will be 13 this week (I speak English to him mostly, so this entry is also in English). I remember my own youth well from that age. It was the year we came here the first time. When I had turned 13, I had already absorbed much of a foreign, American culture. But there was a lot of rebellion too. The music gave me an outlet, and also a link to Finland in Finnish music. British rock was my favorite, followed by Finnish.
My son is showing some signs of interest in music. He has been musical before, but only because it is a social activity. If his friends want to go to concerts, music will become a big thing in his life by that route. He likes activity in groups. Mine was a more solitary fantasy world.
So I bought him U2s CD with Vertigo, his favorite current song. His previous favorite was Blue by that Eiffel group.
He plays a lot of Game Cube games with his friends. Being in American suburbia, we end up driving him to his friends Billy and Matt. Today I ended up going backwards thru the rush hour traffic I had hoped to avoid, to pick him up from his friends house. If he had called my cell phone earlier I would have taken a different route. Nobody else was at home to go and get him. When he is 15 he can take driver ed, but even at 16 is not likely to have his own car. We will see how this all works out with two cars. My wife works from home, so she can spare a car once in a while.
My son is showing some signs of interest in music. He has been musical before, but only because it is a social activity. If his friends want to go to concerts, music will become a big thing in his life by that route. He likes activity in groups. Mine was a more solitary fantasy world.
So I bought him U2s CD with Vertigo, his favorite current song. His previous favorite was Blue by that Eiffel group.
He plays a lot of Game Cube games with his friends. Being in American suburbia, we end up driving him to his friends Billy and Matt. Today I ended up going backwards thru the rush hour traffic I had hoped to avoid, to pick him up from his friends house. If he had called my cell phone earlier I would have taken a different route. Nobody else was at home to go and get him. When he is 15 he can take driver ed, but even at 16 is not likely to have his own car. We will see how this all works out with two cars. My wife works from home, so she can spare a car once in a while.
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Nyt meillä on se teini sitten.
Otin iltapäivän lomaa ja hajotin vanhan sänkymme, 20 vuotta käyttöä. No sitten joskus klo 14 poika tuli kotiin. On määrä mennä partion patikko-rinkka-retkelle. Klo 16-19 välillä alkoi tapahtua, eikä meistä sen ajan yksikään paljon istunut kuin ruokapöydässä: tyttö tuli kotiin, verkkopallo treeni klo 18 JOSSAIN, tuntemattomassa koulussa moottoritietä 15km ainakin. Edellinen treeni oli omassa koulussa. Vaimo laittaa safkaa, valmista meksikolaista pkasteesta. Syömme. Vietämme pojan synttäreitä. Poika pakkaa rinkkaa. Tyttö ja vaimo lähtevät. Poika pakkaa rinkkaa, puramme tiskikoneen, lastaamme tiskit. Poika pelaa 20 minuuttia uutta peliä. 18:30 lähden viemään poikaa koululle josta on määrä mennä tunnin matka puistoon ja patikoida 1,5 km ja pystyttää teltat. Minä en mene, en nuku juuri ollenkaan jos on nollan paikkeilla ulkona, olen aina viluinen. Kaikkein paras untuvamakuupussi ehkä riittäisi minulle lämmöksi.
Mitä YLEENSÄ TEEN perjantaina? Kaikkein mieluiten en mene mihinkään. Jos jaksan, kokoan uuden sängyn.
Tuo anonyymi olin siis minä.
Pojalla menee ihan hienosti. Peleihin menee aikaa, itse ja kavereiden kanssa. On tilattu pojan omalla rahalla uusi Game Boy vehje. Konsoli? Oli kaupoista loppu, postitse 7 päivää.
Sain pojan kaksi kertaa mukaan lintuja katsomaan. Isot linnut tuntuvat kiinnostavan, ei siis aito bongaaja vielä.