I was reminiscing about when my daughter was a teenager so many years ago. Like all teenagers, she went through numerous phases. It is all part of their exploration of life. They will obsess over something for a month or two then it is forgotten for something new and different. It is the same with fashion or hair style or music or even vocabulary.
My daughter went through one particularly obnoxious phase once when she was constantly saying, “Oh, bite me.” I am not sure if she picked that up from Bart Simpson or from her friends at school but that seemed to be her pat response to just about everything. She must have said it a few hundred times a day and this phase of hers seemed to last forever. I let it be because I knew it would pass but she was holding onto it for a very long time.
Then one hot summer day.... Keep Reading