Teens The Back-to-School Board Game

Regarding 67: According to my high school Junior, it has no real meaning. An NBA player was being interviewed and when asked about his height he replied, “ 6, 7” gesturing height with his hands. For some reasons, this was hilarious to younger teens/tweens and now they mimic it. Older teens thinks it’s “cringe” – haha!

My husband has done mornings with my 10, 13 and 16 year old for the past 5 years since I’ve gone back to work full time. I’m suuuuure he asks the 10 year to get their backpack at least 6-7 times each morning ;) Also we have lists around the house to help the youngest get himself together—I truly have no idea how my husband feeds them gets them out the door and himself ready for work. Clocked it! I just quietly sneak out at 6am ready to stand on business teaching 6th graders…and yes I hear 6 7 ten million times a day.

I first interpreted Mood Swing as mine, the mom! Because there’s a tipping point in the morning rush and if you cross me…. watch it.
Love my kids but I get dazed when I think about what mornings were like before them. I sat on the couch with an actual hot breakfast?!? Watching a morning show? damn I had it good.

Oh how I wish I could get a “bye mom love you”… sigh.

I have a senior this year! The looking at the baby pics after they leave got me! This year I snapped a quick last first day of school pic and then went through old photos looking for his first day of kindergarten and teared up remembering how small he used to be. I kept scrolling and thinking is this it? And then realizing that no thats 3rd grade! You forget so much even as he basically is still a baby
in a quadrant of my heart and always will be. I’ll be tearing up all senior year. I well up because I couldn’t be prouder, because he’s about to go off on his own, because I want him to go out into the big wide world and do all the things and be so involved with friends and school a d fun that of course he forgets to call and at the same time I want him to
stay home forever and never leave and only sit in the couch with me eating snacks and making jokes and having a few cuddles.
Being a mom is tough!

My 10 yo taught my 6 yo the 6-7 thing and now I’m hearing it nonstop from both! S.O.S!!

Our morning routine drastically changed when I asked my kids to choose their clothes the night before. It’s like they are emotionally detached from the decision at night, if that makes sense? There’s no rush, no stress, and it takes a total of 30 seconds. I even started to do the same.

Omg the 6 7 is a thing in Canada, too. My 14 yr old explained it to me a few weeks ago, and yesterday my 9 yr old came home saying it. I so often feel like Grace and I are living identical lives?! Well done.100% accuracy.

WTF is the 67 thing!

Hahaha, this is so accurate! We bought a boatload of socks for both boys before they went back to school so at least that problem is taken care of. However, the 7th grader’s calculator is sitting on the dining room table because he neglected to put it in his backpack this morning…

x + y = WTAF 😂

My god, the 67. I teach middle and high school and my kids will not stop 😂

I don’t have kids, but definitely remember being forced to eat oatmeal I hated that was also often basically cold/coagulated by the time I got to it because of said fashion crisis.

Realizing I am old because I have no idea what this 67 thing is…nothing humbles you quite like parenthood!

My ten year old came home from the first day of school and proudly said his math teacher had said he did the first “six seven” of the year. A real honor.

The 67 inclusion is brilliant and so spot on

6-7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So on point. My preteen to my 8 year old “67 is a preteen thing, don’t worry about it.”

I feel this. For real!

Accurate.

Please remember to smile and make friendly eye contact with your Crossing Guards! Hubs went back to his post this week- Year 5. 🙌

Yep, this was exactly my morning. Often my daughter steals my socks!

The number of times a day I hear six-seeeevvveennn a day LOLOL

67, too good