Advice to a Teenager From a Mother (13 Is the New 18)

Everything moms want teens to know about drugs, sex, cigarettes, alcohol and school in under 2 minutes. Based on a funny new book, "13 Is the New 18 ... and other things my children taught me while I was having a nervous breakdown being their mother." Visit www.13isthenew18.com for excerpts or to order the book (out Jan. 27). By Beth Harpaz. Music from Carmen's Toreador (with apologies to Gilligan's Island fans ... remember "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" when the gang staged "Hamlet"?)

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Mom song
• comedy
• teenager
• mother
• advice
• the '70s
• 13isthenew18.com
• 13 Is the New 18
• Beth Harpaz
• teenage drinking
• teenage sex
• Toreador song
• Carmen Toreador song
• Gilligan's Island
• Hamlet
• Bob Marley album cover

[xosophiegrl]

and thirteen is NOT the new eighteen. The maturity levels between a 13-year-old 8th grader and a 14-year-old 9th grader are vastly different. Just because a kid wears Air Jordans and maybe drinks a little doesn't make them the equivalent of an 18 year old. In your book you say: "childhood fades away all at once." That's not true. My parents and I both find you ridiculous, a bad parent, and totally delusional when it comes to your son's "issues." Your family isn't dysfunctional at all.

[xosophiegrl]

I read that book of hers... 13 is the new 18? I'm 14 and let me say it was horribleeee. She just kept bitching about how "dysfunctional" her family is and how "out of control" her son is and how "disconnected" she is when really her son sounds like a normal kid and her family totally fine. The total lack of faith she has in her kids is sad. Seriously I couldn't get through one page without wanting to smack her. My parents agree.

[violacrazy]

kudos for her courage to sing like that

[rgz1985]

That's funny, because my mom said: "If that curly-headed fuck Dale wasn't here everything would be perfect."

[Lfdjake91]

LAME!!!!!!!!

[krisrapp0392]

this is what gingers do on saturday night

[runescape26]

hahahahaha I know right?

[EhWaLLSWaGG]

wtf yo i sware i had an eyegasm

[lovely267]

lmfao

[jtjeffjt]

Funny and Frightening and Funny