So, we're about 3 weeks into the new school year and ALREADY DH has been getting e-mails from SS12's school saying he's behind in not just one, but two classes. One of the e-mails from his English teacher made sure to specify that it was because he hasn't been doing his homework, not because of absences. DH was like, "Absences?" Turns out there was a day or two BM couldn't find anyone to pick him up from school, so she just let him stay home. There are these things called busses, but I digress...

I'm just curious to know because I don't think I've ever really known anyone who was medicated as a child, then opted out of meds once they were an adult, and what the result of that was. Both of my skids have ADHD, and are medicated about 75% of the time (during the school week and at BM's house), but when they're unmedicated (with us), they are borderline out of control. Actually, not just borderline, they're very out of control.

So, for the last few years, I kept asking DH when SS14 was going to hit puberty, mostly because I can't stand his shrill, shrieking voice, especially when he's gearing up to argue about nothing, which is the vast majority of the time. Well, the time is here, and his voice is finally starting to change...only now, when his voice cracks, it sounds EVEN WORSE. Of course, it cracks especially badly when he's gearing up to argue about nothing...which is the vast majority of the time.

Why did my house smell totally fine until the SS's woke up and came upstairs, and then it smelled like continuous fart? Feel free to answer this question any way you want, but my guess is probably that SS's are disgusting, prepubescent grossness. I do not now, nor will I ever understand why teenaged/pre-teenaged boys apparently take to showers and cleanliness like vampires take to sunlight and garlic. Especially when the father of said boys was OBSESSED with cleanliness when he was their age. Maybe their mom is just a total grosser too and that's where they get it from. Just a guess.