For the first ten years of their life, your kids embarrass you. For the second ten years of their life, you embarrass them. By no means remove the plate. She had an alternative: don't drive the car. It's your car and your plate. If she expect you to respect her boundaries and possessions, then she has to do the same. Teens say they want to be "different", but they don't want YOU to be different. My kids dealt with mom and dad being actively involved science fiction fans, even going to <gasp> Star Trek conventions. We even <horrors> wore costumes sometimes. They eventually became rather proud of the fact that their parents had real lives. We won't go into dealing with mom teaching sex ed in school...<G> Judith Judith Hayman, RN, IBCLC, BSc, BScN Public Health Nurse & Lactation Consultant *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html