# My \*baby\* is turning into a man! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753 "2003-05-31T10:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753/1 "2003-05-31T10:23:58Z")
My youngest kid, age 14, is leaving the babydom I hoped he would hang-out in for a while yet. To cut a long story short, he just came downstairs and assaulted me with a humungous whiff of aftershave! And when I turned to find out where the strange odour was coming from, I noticed he was dressed up to the ‘nines’. Now, as far as I was concerned, he was just going back to his mates place (around the corner) to play some video games and _chill_ with his friends until his curfew at 10.00 pm. On questioning his new scent and fashion conciousness however, I found out that the mate’s sister has HER friends over tonight as well! And he was dressing to impress! I am so proud…and depressed. My baby boy is hurtling into manhood. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753/2 "2003-05-31T11:38:39Z")
Man, I’m gonna have the hardest time re-adjusting to Aussie life when I move back; the spelling of “odour” just looks…so…_wrong!_ 😃 Oh, yeah - and congrats on the whole baby/man thing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753/3 "2003-05-31T11:48:46Z")
Take a good wiff of him when he returns. Then ask how thing went. What good is having a child if you can’t warp them a little? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753/4 "2003-05-31T14:00:21Z")
Hey, 14? He’s around MY age… Hows _he_ doin? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753/5 "2003-05-31T14:23:39Z")
**Kambuckta** – you have no idea. _My_ son is almost 17, now, and I can’t see my baby in him anymore at all… He’s a foot taller than I am with great big, hairy legs and muscles on his muscles. He can bench press 215 pounds, but I remember so _clearly_ when I had to carry him around… It’s so lame, but I cried over his baby pictures yesterday. Where’d my blue-eyed baby boy go? This great big oaf swallowed my baby! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753/6 "2003-05-31T16:47:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jess \* > This great big oaf swallowed my baby! Film at 11! ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-is-turning-into-a-man/178753/7 "2003-05-31T17:25:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jess \*Where’d my blue-eyed baby boy go? This great big oaf swallowed my baby! \*\* Mines gone too. He was a beautiful baby, perfect fine skin, lovely strawberry blonde and blue eyed. I thought he was tall when he was born at 21 inches. Now he’s a nearly 6ft muscled, hairy beast. (Who still kisses my cheek good night if no one is looking.) 🆒 [sub]I vote for messing with their head too.[/sub]