Right after my son became an adult, I finally figured out adolescent humor. That’s the way it is with parenting; just when we begin to understand what is going on with our children, they catapult to the next stage. In my experience, many adolescents love to watch and recount the stupid things adults say and do. Seek to keep a light heart as teenagers laughingly point out your eccentricities, flaws, and frailties. Remember that we are very funny to them, as our parents were also very funny to us. In fact, my best advice to parents of teens: hold tight to your sense of humor. You will need it.
In 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said, Ross and Kathryn Petras include:
“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”
—Samuel Goldwyn, movie mogul
“The streets are safe in Philadelphia; it is only the people who make them unsafe.”
—Frank Rizzo, mayor
“During a state of national emergency resulting from enemy attack, the essential functions of the Service will be as follows: (1) assessing, collecting and recording taxes...”
Internal Revenue Service, 1976
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