Youthful Ponderers Mugs

"You know, we're not getting any younger...I mean, pretty soon, we'll both be 16."

"I don't know why you always have to choose the same hide-and-go-seek hiding spot that I do, Tommy!"

Multi-Generational Books

Playground reputation.

"It's quiet in here. I suppose it's off the popular tourist route!"

Student: 'Is the medical marijuana thing a grass-roots movement?'

'If Aunt Arctica is on the bottom of the world, does that mean Uncle Artica is on top of the world?'

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

'The position calls for a mature person with young ideas.'

'According to this stop watch I'm not growing up fast enough.'

"What's it like to be the parent of a nonhuman?"

'When will it be o.k. to feel irrationally exuberant again?'

'My problems seem small to you because you're so darn BIG'

"I think I'll be more relaxed once my secondary sex characteristics kick in."

'Is this really where we wanted to be at this stage of our lives?'

"If you never date a prediction it can't be proved wrong."

Your weight and fortune. What you'll weigh now...what you'll weigh 10 years from now.

"How did people waste time before computers?"

"I'm diagnosing a conflict of interest . . . your body knows how old you are, but your mind refuses to believe it."

All Metamorphosed And No Place To Go.

"When I was growing up, my parents only ever gave me two choices for everything I did: The carrot or the stick..."

"We think he needs more individual neglect."

'I don't want to play house... I want to play hard-to-get.'

'If birds reproduce by laying eggs, what's this BIRDSEED stuff all about?'

"Yo've got to be more specific, Ed. Wake you when what's over?"

Ask Sadie. Dear Sadie, My mother doesn't want me to get a tattoo, but I disagree. I believe that a tattoo would be very attractive. What do you think? - Jessica, rebellious daughter. *(Actual reader letter). Is this serious? Is this a real letter? They're all real. I am stunned. Stunned? What is wrong with children? Defying their mothers? Do you know what would happen if we had defied our parents like that? What? They'd have sent us to live in the old country with our illiterate cousins who left

"You awake?"

'...I just get nervous about opening up and talking about it.'

'...do I want to risk putting up with someone like me?'

'Where did we go wrong...?'

Zebra Crossing

'He's beginning to notice girls.'

'If fifty is the new seventy, when is the new dead?'

'Money brings only misery.'

'Life isn't fair. Just when girls get interesting, they get taller than us.'