*Adolescence*

**Nowadays our youngsters are acting as if adolescence is the last fling at life instead of the introduction to it.

**Some philosopher said that adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

**Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions -- not because they don't want to learn, but because they know all the answers.

**I can't make up my mind, does adolescence ruin cars or do cars ruin the younger generation.

**I think parents dread adolescence because they remember what they used to do during this period.

**This is that wonderful time when girls stop making faces at boys and slip into making eyes.

**You can easily tell when a child enters adolescence -- they start asking questions that you CAN answer but wish you didn't have to.

**Children are first aware they are entering the period when they find their parents become more difficult.

**This is that confusing period where children are too young to give advice and too old to take any.

**This is a period of time-warping. Your kids age five years -- from 13 to 18 -- while you age 20 years.

**It is easy to recognize an adolescent boy -- it's the time when he goes from quoting his dad to criticizing the old man.

**Finally, what really gets me mad is that this is the time my boy begins objecting to my wanting my own way!