Opinion
A warning on the occasion of said cousin’s daughter’s 13th birthday
Recently, the eldest daughter of a younger cousin of mine had her thirteenth birthday. This was much cause for huge celebrations of her teenyboperization on younger cousin’s Facebook page. Friends of the family came in with all the usual congratulations that one might expect on such an occasion. “So happy to…Congratulations on…Best of luck for”…etc, etc.
Not yours truly. My youngest daughter is 18 and my oldest one is 35, so in all conscience I could not possibly pretend to tell people what they want to hear on the extremely vexed subject of adolescence. I am a battle scarred parent with enough experience to know better!
So I sent them something of a fly in their swimmingly pleasantly birthday greetings ointment… I know: inappropriate.
“You could be under threat from SLAPS. SLAPS you ask? Spoilt Little Adolescent Princess Syndrome.