Tomorrow my son turns thirteen. Mrs. Prefect and I have been threatening him with the promise that he would have to perform some sort of ritual/rite of passage as he turns into a full fledged teenager. But for the life of us we cannot come up with anything good, or anything at all for that matter.
So, on the eve of this momentous, for him and for us, occasion I look to the Dopers to help me out. Nothing too outrageous. It can even be a little whimsical.
Weird, it submitted before I was done… Ahh, I must have hit the tab and then enter, that will recreate the submit not on demand action…
Anyway, the reason I am looking for help is that I cannot allow my son to turn thirteen with an empty threat over his head He would never let me forget that.
So any and all rites/rituals for the child turning into a teen please.
My parents didn’t do that, but my friends and their older sibs did do it to me when I turned 13. It was like I was finally old enough to understand what was going on in the movie.
Have him help change the oil on the car, followed by a (small) glass of cold beer and a chicken-fried steak (I used to call this ‘man food’ and my boys loved it).
Apparently, from the suggestions given, my son is well on his way. Apart from the oil change (I don’t do that myself anyway), cigarettes, drugs and porno, my son does/has done much of this stuff before: He knows how to drive, he has shot a gun, had brownies, takes a little wine with our pre-meal toast, and mows the lawn.
Thanks for the suggestions, in the end we did nothing, slackers that we are. It was fun scaring him for a few months with tales of primitive rites of passage
No fooling. When my mom’s second husband (from Iran) turned 11 they threw a party and did it to him. He claims he had no idea until he saw the guy with the knife.