http://www.2equal1.com/

A friend sent me this link and I found it quite interesting. Not only are there books on this site for marriage but for parenting as well.

I don't know about all of you but my kids sometimes make the things I did growing up look down right tame!The stories I could tell you!

Okay, just one~

When I was in high school (a senior mind you) we skipped school quite a bit starting in probably May (right before graduation in June). I attended a high school that was located out in the country and the driveway leading in and out of the school was probably 300 feet long. With a clear view to the road too. You can't tell me the office staff and administration wasn't standing at the window waving good-bye as we thought we snuck out. Yes, we were driving, so I think that made us even more visible, not everyone had a car- so they knew who's car it was as we left...

The time I'm thinking of was when we (just a couple of friends-I didn't have too many more, lol) went to my parent's house (during the day-this is important) while all of our parents were at work. We made "Screwdrivers" (Orange juice and vodka) in my parents orange juice pitcher. My parents unwittingly provided the vodka. I don't remember actually drinking any of it (I have to redeem myself somehow in this story) and the moral of the story is~ if you're going to make mixed drinks in your parents orange juice pitcher make sure that you have another can of concentrate to replace your Screwdriver mix with. I think we realized far too late that if we poured the orange juice out that my parents would know we had been there. (17 year old guilty logic, lol)

My Dad drank a Screwdriver for breakfast the next morning. I know this because I remember thinking uh-oh, busted. I believe my father (who was a counselor for alcoholics no less) told my mother that the orange juice had gone bad, lol. I asked them years later and they really had thought the orange juice had gone bad. They weren't really too far off....

So with all that in mind I don't keep liquor or beer in my house. Mind you my son is only 13 but there's no sense in taking any chances now... I like to think I'm prepared.

Ha.

I shouldn't have worried about the liquor/beer business. Nope. My son wants to quit school and he's only in the 7th grade. Mind you I'm in education. We practically worship at the altar of the education....

Maybe that's the problem- meanwhile he's failing five subjects right now...

I'll keep you posted... and while I do that I'm going to go get some orange juice....