Good grief. This is all so stressful. Perhaps I should simply blame the person who invented mobile phones and instant text messaging. Because after last week’s incident with my teenage son, when he doesn’t respond straight away to a text message, I immediately begin to worry. Even worse was that another mother rang me earlier to say she was really worried because it was her son’s birthday and she couldn’t reach any of them – so another fraught couple of hours trying to locate them. Turns out they’d been in the Budapest Baths and didn’t have their phones with them. Much better in my day when we didn’t speak to our parents for weeks at a time, surely? He really doesn’t need his mother trying to track him down every five minutes.
I did have stern words with him a few days ago (which I won’t go into now), but one of the issues was regarding keeping us all informed of which hostel they were staying in – we barely even knew which country they were in, let alone where to find them specifically. I asked for details.
So I got:
hi mum, all cool, address for the hostel we r in for next few days is
“Instant Groove Party House” Budapest.
Oh great. TBH, didn’t make me feel a whole lot better.
Expat Mum
September 5, 2011Better just to text. I’m learning that.
Laura
September 6, 2011Could you not just fit him with a tracking device?
Family Affairs
September 6, 2011A bar code? He’s probably just been given one from Poland anyway. Good idea. Ish. Lx
DD's Diary
September 6, 2011Love it. I’m beginning to think it’s almost always better not to know …. when I was that age, if my parents pressed me for any details, I’d just lie. Ooops, did I say that? x
Family Affairs
September 6, 2011well, I know. We all did x