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After a discussion about Trent's clandestine Facebook page (the one that claims he is 22):

Sabrina: "Why are all the men in my life crazy?"

Michael: "They're not all crazy. Some of them are boring. You have two choices: they can either be crazy or boring---because they're all going to be stupid."

Shocked, hysterical laughter...

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I think he may be on to something. But 22???

I love your icon :-) 22,that's an ambitious young man.

Do not tell Trent I said this... but that is kinda awesome. >:-)

Can you say Sandusky? It's not cute, laughable or something to leave solely to Ildeko to deal with properly. I had to deal with this with my former boss's youngest girl. Yeah, *her*. Was he asked why he did it? Why he felt he had to hide it? Why he had to lie about his age? Why he's too young to be on there? Shall I mention Sandusky one more time? Nip this in the bud and make sure that your and Ildeko's punishments are at parity. It's not fair to make her the bad guy when he's totally out of line and should be getting it with all barrels, not just Mom's.

You might want to confer with C&O about this. Their daughter also established a separate on-line identity (several, I think) and was being somewhat malicious about it.

I shared this with some folks at clinic today. They loved it! Kiss Michael for me.

So Michael is saying men = stupid? heh! I have 3 brothers and have been married twice, plus my dad, and I'm inclined to think he's right. Not to say that I don't love them, because I do...but they DEFinitely think differently than we do, and often it's stupid...or maybe just testosterone.

Oh, good grief! Hilarious and yet serious, too. Once we stopped laughing, T and I knew you'd have to have a serious series of talks with Trent about online security, why he was hiding it (though I remember the feeling during adolescence that everything I didn't immediately choose to share should be private, even when it wasn't a) important or b) wise), etc.

I'm really glad that you were able to show him that a situation can have aspects that are really funny and aspects that are really not at all. And I know you'll all work on him understanding just why the worry and anger are there, which a lot of people just don't do with their kids.

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