So, as I was talking to my 12 yr old son today...?

Question

I realized I was lookng at him eye to eye!! What the heck! Ah..they grow too fast. I swear I was still lookin down to talk to him a few weeks ago...could've been wearing heels at the time though. I can't believe I almost have a teenager...do you remember the moment it hit you that your kid wasn't much of a "kid" anymore?

Answer 1

I look my mom in the eye as well and I am 11. I do that a lot! I have no clue why! I do it with people alll around me as well, including friends. I guess that might show that us "kids" are now maturing.

Answer 2

Oh, I know just what you mean! I'm 5'9" and by 12, my son was as tall as me, and had these huge size 12 feet! Now he's almost 6 feet at 16, with size 13 feet.

Enjoy him being 12 - because mine at 16 seems so far away from that age!

Thinking of him as a kid really slowed when he began high school in grade nine, because he was in such a different world, though.

But he's still my 'baby'!!!

Answer 3

When I was 14, my mother warned me that she could still set me down in a chair!  Guess who wound up in the chair?  All in good nature, of course, but point made.

I once worked with the wife of a world-famous professional race car driver, who reported that she had got up in the middle of the night and found a HOT, well-built young man in her kitchen in his underpants and was shocked to discover that it was her own 16 year old son!  The identical experience happened to my girlfriend in college when she was home for Christmas and ran into her "little" brother in the hallway one night!

They grow like weeds, usually before our very eyes, and yet without our noticing.  Thank God for those brief, startling revelations!

Answer 4

yup, my 15 year old is now taller than me and I am 6 feet tall.He' now hinting for a drivers license !

Answer 5

I am the same as Rachael.But yeah time does fly by.My son will be 10 in July and his nickname is babe i call him babe more then i call his real name(Seth)he always cuddles me and talks to me about anything and everything and that's how i want him and my daughter to be, that we can talk about anything.they are both good kids and very affectionate no matter where we are.my daughter loves to play squish squish with my belly and my son loves hugs.

Answer 6

mine is only 9 but it won't be long before he is looking me in the eyes.  I am glad to say that he is still a kid. Always hugging me and when he got back from his school camp yesterday he came flying at me in a big hug and told me how much he miissed me for the 3 days. He will always be my baby

Answer 7

I also have a 12 year old.  I was sitting at the kitchen table the other day looking at him while we were eating.  I noticed that his upper lip isn't just peach fuzz anymore.  It's starting to get darker and a little longer!  I'm so not ready for this yet!!!!

Answer 8

I'm so sad.I have a 6,8 and 3 year old and my 8 year old has a picture on the fridge of when she was born and when I look at that picture I can still smell her when she was born,,,you know how they have that baby smell,,,Wwwaaaaa.

Answer 9

well my 12 year old birthday party and he gonna be 7th grader next year is such sad where does the time go