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Keepsake Book for Your Angsty Teen’s Milestones
As If You Could Forget the Worst Years of the Parent-Child Journey
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2 min readJan 31, 2023
- First eye roll. (You almost missed it!)
- First laugh at your expense.
- First missteps.
- First string of curse words uttered in Grandma’s presence.
- First refusal to smile in a family photo.
- Followed closely by first refusal to appear in a family photo.
- First time recoiling from your hug and saying you smell.
- First time slamming their bedroom door when you call them down for your famous chicken parm, then whining the next day that “there’s never anything to eat in this house!”
- First menstrual period or nocturnal emission. (You’ll know because you do their laundry.)
- First call from a concerned teacher.
- First 90-minute call to a telephone psychic, which they thought was toll-free. (This entry only appears in the original 1997 edition.)
- First permanent tooth knocked out during gym class. [AFFIX HERE]
- First orthodontist bill.
- First letter home for skipping gym class.
