His actual new phone: a simple but significant step against social media overuse #selfcare #wellbeing #teenager #proudmum #australia @boneAndsilver
Me: So how’s it going with your new, internet-free phone Honey? My blog readers loved it! They’re very proud of you; we have “Teenage Tuesday” now, so they’re all up to date on you.
Him: [*smirks and rolls eyes, but obviously kinda pleased]
PAUSE
Him: [*staring at me in a way that I know means he’s up to something…]
You know Mum, if ever you ‘monetize’ your blog, I want 50%. Oh, and that’s backdated, OK.
bone&silver 
Might be time to get a lawyer. Teenage son may already have one on speed-dial!
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Bwahahahaha! So possibly true! 🤣🤣
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Why doesn’t that surprise me?
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I know, right? 😘
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Fair enough. Some business spirit.
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Yep, he gets it from his grandpa… and the humor partly from me, thank goodness 😊❤
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Which is great. Smart people = smart humor.
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😂you have a very smart one i your hands there 😀
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Yes indeed. HELP! 😃😘
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No problem. credit against the food bills.
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Omg GENIUS answer, thanks Steph!!! Xxxxx
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Sure, I would say, minus deductions for room and board, transportation, health care, taxes and other assorted “overhead.”
Hey, maybe “17” will end up owing YOU money. 🙂
I kid.
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Hahahaha- I love the way your mind works! I just read that comment out to ’17’; consider yourself the recipient of a very unimpressed glare 😈😘
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When I do something like that to Nell, she usually says something like “You only do that when you know I’m right.”
She is usually right.
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They’ve just got us nailed every way we turn don’t they? : )
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Hahaha. Smart guy!
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I was going to make a comment about you backdating his ‘care and feeding’ for 17 years but others beat me to it … seems 17-year-old-BoneSon-logic didn’t take the concept far enough before positing his addendum! 😀
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I needed you all there when he said it; I just looked blankly at him : /
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Don’t’cha hate it when that happens? 😀 … the perfect riposte enters the brain AFTER it’s needed! 😀
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Usually just as I fall asleep, or in my morning shower…
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😀
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Haha, clever boy.
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Exactly the sort of thing my 18 year old nephew would say!
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They probably know each other via Facebook… ; )
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🙂
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Smarty pants. 🙂
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Yes, & super cool with it too *rolls eyes
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have you watched Black Mirror?
Kind of made me want to throw computers, phones, everything, into the sea.
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Ooh no, I’ve never even heard of that, so now I’m going to hunt it down, thanks; I so appreciate your comment and input : )
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Got to love them ..i need 17s help to understand my smart phone as it seems pretty dumb to me
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Hahaha, yes, I know what you mean xx
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You’re son used the word monetize?
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Yup. I know. Teenagers are a new breed nowadays, but he’s a good one I swear : )
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Kid has some smarts!!
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