My Low Maintenance Teen

ASid is totally low maintenance; especially during the summer holidays. He sleeps in and has 2 meals per day - a brunch and an early dinner. The meals are quite simple as well and easy to prepare. 

Yesterday, I woke up and scheduled my day meticulously. I cleaned up, washed up and prepped for my tutoring session. Planned 2 meals for the day, instructed an enthusiastic child, watered a friend's parents’ plants and settled into watch 13 episodes of season 1 of a popular Netflix original series!

This was a series recommended by both Lady A and ASid. I recommended it to a couple of parents as well without actually watching it. Finally, I decided to check it out for myself. This was my first time watching that much on a screen since my best friend Ames from high school made me watch the original Star Wars trilogy all in one night some 20 odd years ago!

And this binging was only possible because I have just this one boy to care for right now and he needs so little from me.

In fact, ASid ended up watching some of the episodes with me. We had a good dialogue about it all. We wrapped up around 2:40ish this morning. I also ended up ordering pizza just before midnight 'cos our planned 2 meal sustenance couldn't get us through 11-12 hours of a binge worthy commitment.

Would I do this again?! Maybe not!!

But if I had to do it just once, I picked the right series to watch. It is about high school in the 21st century and the issues teens face these days. While I watched it, I had this comforting feeling that my teen is smart enough to avoid half the stuff depicted. I am also confident that he would talk with me or somebody about the other half of the stuff shown in the series.

I felt quite lucky to have the teen I have. There is so much scary stuff out there that it is almost a relief to know that ASid is aware of it and feels the need to update me on it as well. Yesterday I found out what FML and DTF mean. I got that info from my teen who enlightened me in a matter of fact way.

There are days I worry that ASid is so oblivious and there are days I am surprised at how wrong I am. I am glad ASid is tuned into his world and I am glad I take the time to tune in when I can.

On that note, honestly, a low maintenance teenager is a myth!