My "tween"ager just told me that I'm being "that way!"

[Maddy McCall]

Can someone please tell me what "that way" is, when an eleven-year-old says it? :shrug:


Have you ever been "that way?"

[mr_hat]

1. It means you're hot, mom. Nothing to worry about.

[Maddy McCall]

6. LOL! Well, I was hot.

I'm paying big bucks for piana lessons and I can't get him to practice. :D

[LoZoccolo]

2. You're supposed to know.

It's nothing specific, just a way of saying "look at how you're acting now".

[Maddy McCall]

7. It's the "how" that I'm askin' about.

:hi:

[mark414]

8. yep

[Wickerman]

3. Mean, like a parent?

God, I have a house full of them and I hear it all the time - not alway in those words, but I get to hear how uncool I am for insisting we don't do things that damage life and limb and you psyches.

[Maddy McCall]

9. I'm just trying to enrich his psyche.

"One day he'll appreciate it." :D

[SmileyBoy]

4. That way?? What way??

Geez, now I'm getting old...

[Maddy McCall]

10. THAT way.

:D

[Shrubhater]

5. Even I'm not sure, and I'm 14!

But I'm guessing it has to do with you being a "typical" mother (if you know what I mean!)

Just some advice from a teenager.

[Maddy McCall]

11. Yeah, I'm usually a big softie...

but when I hold my ground, I'm being "that way."

:shrug:

Thanks for a teen's POV. :hi:

[evlbstrd]

12. Mine's fifteen and a half.

I'm always that way.

I hate teenagers. Every one.

[SmileyBoy]

14. Me too.

I may have been 19 years old only four years ago, but I hate 'em still.:D

[evlbstrd]

15. Then there is hope for you.

[uppityperson]

20. uhhhh, uhhhh, uh.... well, YOU know....

and if you don't it's because you don't care. And if you do why are you prying. and how can you be so, so , so , YOU know. uhhh, uhhh, uhhh, tsk. sigh

I hated myself as a teenager too. Do you ever read Zits comic strip?We will get through it. You will get through it. Even being how you are. uhhh, sighhhhhhhhhhhhh

[evlbstrd]

21. Exactly.

BUT MINE DOES IT IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!
YOU BASTARD!!!!

[kedrys]

13. I don't mean to be that way, but...

yeah, on second thought I do. :P

[Lex]

16. You're only being "that way" because your kid was being

"that way" FIRST!

[bertha katzenengel]

17. I thought it meant pregnant. Y'know, back when it was a scandless

to be "that way" if you weren't married.

:shrug:

[HEyHEY]

18. Once, I think

[radwriter0555]

19. "MOM!" (with TWO syllables) "That's NOT good PARENTING!"

Is the one I get the most.

Usually when she's being silly though.

[tyedyeto]

22. Careful....'That Way' is no good for teenagers.

just try to be KEWL and it'll be ok.

[hippiepunk]

23. What the hell is a tweenager?

:shrug: