15 year old

Our son is a man already, he asked us for a shaving machine some weeks ago, he has hair in his legs and some hair in his stomach. He shaved his mostache and beard for the first time, he is a man already. The psychologist told us that our son was in the conventional morality stage, you know when teenagers obey just to gain social approval. We noted this because sometimes he does things that we tell him just to go out on the weekend and be aproved by his peers. He got accepted on the boarding school and he is leaving in a couple of months. Time went by too fast, it is a sad moment we don't want him to leave but that is what he wants. We wish him the best, because we love him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg's_stages_of_moral_development

14 years old

We are very freaked out. Our son's voice started cracking a lot and we went to a doctor and he told us that it was very normal in a teenager so we calmed down. After some months of a cracking voice his voice got deep. He now talks like a man. Time flew by, I feel like it was yesterday that we were teaching him how to talk. Our son had his first wet dream some weeks ago, it was very awkward when he told us, he was very very ashamed to tell us what happened but he finally told us and we explained him what happened. He will be leaving to a boarding school probably.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/growing/talk_about_puberty.html

13 years old

Our son is oficially in the adolesence, you know the period in a person's life when the person changes from a child to start turning into an adult. Puberty is starting to come in play with our son, puberty is the sexual maturation in a person, person becomes capable of reproducing. We will have to talk to him and explain him all of these things and tell him that he shouldn't be scared of some things that will happen in his body. We are doing the correct things with our son and we are glad of the things we do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty

12 years old

We can't believe it 12 years have past since our little boy arrived home. He is about to enter the teenager period of his life. It is a very hard part of his life. His voice already cracked sometimes and he gets really ashamed when his voice cracks. It will get worse, his voice will crack more often and he won't want to go out just because of that, but we will help him get over that. He has a very strong attachment with a friend in his class, he wants to spend all day with him, we are permissive parents so we let him go to his house once in a while. We hope we are doing the right things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence

11 years old

Alex turns eleven, time flew. Time passes to fast, we feel like we haven't enjoyed that much time with our son even though we have spent tons of time with him, he have had tons of fun. Having a kid is probably the best thing that has happened to us, we formed such a strong bond in the family, in shorter words we formed an attachment between all of us. He is doing really great in school, he is part of the Principal's List of his grade, he makes us way too proud, and we used positive reinforcement with our son, which is when we give him a treat or something good to him when he does something good. We give him 50 lempiras for every A that he gets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement

10 years old

Alex is not a little kid anymore, he is starting to be more organized kid, we are glad to see this. One day he came up to our room and told us that he had a best friend already, as soon as he told us all the story we knew that it was an attachment, all the things he told us matched with what the psychologist told us. On weekends he wants to go to the kid's house everyday and he really talks a lot about him. He already passed over the stranger anxiety stage, he could talk to a stranger with no problem one day in a birthday we are glad he passed over that. That day after that we went home and went to sleep very fulfilled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship

9 years old

We traveled to the Unites States with our son for the first time the summer that just passed. We had a blast, we went to one of our friend's house and while staying at their house stranger anxiety attacked our son. The owner of the house started talking to our son as soon we got to his house and he started crying and crying. After about two or three days our son formed a really strong bond to the person he couldn't even talk to some days before. We were really curious about what had happened to our son, the sudden change was really strange. We consulted a psychologist about what happened and he told us that is what psychologists call an attachment; an attachment is when a young kid forms a tie with another person. Everything is running perfectly until now, this makes us really happy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_(psychology)