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Let this be a warning to any teenage girls reading my blog. Boys suck. Especially teenage boys. Don't let them fool you with their sweet-talking. Teenage boys leave their underwear on the floor at home. They are lazy. They don't make their beds. They sass back to their mommas. They wear the same thing days in a row without washing it. They are mean to their sisters. They are lazy. They hate school. They don't pick up after themselves. They lie. They are soooooo lazy. They are selfish. They don't wear deodorant unless you make them. They hate to get their hair cut. And did I mention they are LAZY?



Oh. My. Gosh. Being a mom is tough. Being mother to a teenage son is near impossible.



Here's just one small example. I am homeschooling my son over the summer to help him catch up where he has fallen behind. He will be able to catch up an entire grade by doing this. It only requires about two hours of work per day, five days a week. In other words, it doesn't interfere with your life if you get up a couple of hours early and get it done. Ya know, that's what a girl would do anyway.



But not my son. He still sleeps til noon. Then when he gets around to the schoolwork he notices he has WAY more than two hours worth of work ahead of him. Why? Because a good hour of it is correcting errors from the previous day's work. Things like "Capitalize the word *Spain,*" for instance. No matter how many times we go over capitalization and punctuation, he still insists on doing it the lazy way. "It takes too long to hit the shift key." WHAT?!? You're freakin' kidding me!?! 


I wonder if we had raised our kids milking cows and plowing fields if the boy would be less lazy? Or is it just a boy thing? Are all boys this lazy? Too lazy to hit the shift key? Too lazy to capitalize proper nouns? Too lazy to put periods at the ends of sentences? And how does he not realize he is creating more work for himself? Of course, it's more work for me too since I have to go over all the work. That makes me a very unhappy mum.



So to all my friends in Lakeland who are spawning off female children -- GOOD FOR YOU! YOU WILL LOVE LIFE! For Beth in Tokyo, I'm sorry to tell you that boys are lazy. Tell Naomi to get used to having to do *everything,* as D'Ette puts it. (She's used to re-doing all her brother's housework.)

And for you men who read this -- you *used* to be a boy -- what made you stop being so lazy? Or are you still lazy? If you are, you probably will be too lazy to leave a comment anyway.