I asked my teenage son what he wanted for Christmas, he told me he
wanted a savage garden. So I told my husband to stop mowing the lawn.
Suited him fine, gave him more time to watch the cricket. Although my
ankles got itchy while putting the washing out, at least my son is not
making extra work for us. Teenagers are wonderful really!Christmas comes along and he asks me for some spider bait. A little
weird seeing he requested the wild back yard in the first place, but I
figured the lawn was quite overgrown now and he never did like creepy
crawlies. He’d much prefer to play computer games and listen to music
with his friends in his room.I went to the Hawkins Landscape Supplies but all they had was bug spray.
With a bewildered look, he graciously took the bug spray and then told
me to get him a silver chair.Off to Amart I go. They only had wooden chairs, so I asked the fella in
the outdoor section if he could help me. He told be to go to the record
store. Rude young man, I told him I’d take my business to IKEA!They were not much help but I found a chrome chair. That should do, my
son was never that fussy anyway!He put the chair next to his study desk. Things were a little cluttered
in there but he always had friends sitting on his bed while they played
computers, so I figured he was just being considerate. He’s a lovely
boy!He then asked me for a green spoon! I thought he was starting to get a
little demanding about presents this year, but then again, he is a good
kid, his grades have been slipping a bit but he never gets in trouble at
school and his friends are all well behaved - except Daniel!So I go off to the Bed, Bath and Table and look at the cutlery. There
were some Lime coloured salad servers, so I ask this lovely young girl
if she thought my son would like them. She laughed out loud and said I
need to look for Grinspoon, go to the record store.How rude, is this the new modern way kids tell us to ‘get lost’? Doesn’t
matter anyway, I found a nice gift shop with novelty wooden spoons - I
got one with a smiley face on it!My son thanked me for the spoon, did not seem so impressed with it, then
asked for some M&M’s and made some funny hand gestures. Easy, I got him
a big bag of them next time I was at Coles. He and his mates scoffed
them down with some coke while playing computers in his room. It’s good
to see the chair being used!I later heard he and his mates (including Dan), talking about having
powder fingers and going on some odyssey! I was shocked. He showed no
signs of drug abuse. It must be that no good Dan kid. Oh Danny Boy!I sought some advice and that night at dinner I spoke to him.
My church group said that it is a normal reaction for teenagers to deny
any involvement with cocaine when confronted and to throw a huge tantrum
when told that Drugs Anonymous can help.They said his behaviour will change. And it did. He would not come out
of his room, he stopped talking to me for days. I thought ‘enough is
enough, we need a truce’. Clearly Drugs Anonymous was not going to work
and he seemed so happy recently so I decided to surprise him with a
gift!I’d recently heard he and all the fellas down in his room talking about
female singers who they’d like the most. Jennifer Lopez seemed to be
very popular with the boys so I bought my son her latest CD and a poster
of her - a real big one to cover the whole door. Hadn’t I done well?Well, when I gave it to him he told me I don’t understand him anymore -
she has clothes on and after all the other stuff he asked for why did I
bother with HER music?I just do not know what to do. Christmas was meant to be a lovely
bonding time for the family, having picnics and opening gifts given with
love. I haven’t heard him play the CD I bought - maybe he sold it to buy
drugs?My husband thinks that I’m paranoid and going mad and that our son is
perfectly normal. Its a topsy turvy world, what am I going to do?
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