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It's hard enough raising one teen -- but three?! Welcome to RAZmom88's wild and wonderful life. Check back every Thursday to find out what drama or joy she encountered this week.

Alcohol on campus

Ryan, 18, got caught with beer in his dorm room. They made him dump it out and write a letter home. He claims that the beer actually belonged to a 21 year old friend who was visiting, but the rule is no alcohol in the dorms. 

I gave him the whole, "You are in school studying criminal justice, think about your future!" speech. He insists that he is behaving himself. I told him I would give him the benefit of the doubt this time, but one more incident and his car will be taken and parked at home.

This is a serious subject and nothing to laugh at, least of which by the moms of teen girls who are actually trying to get pregnant. All this goes to show in some of the honest gut reactions that moms gave in two recent posts on the subject. Obviously it's a very real issue that's on a lot of moms' minds lately.

Here's how some moms would react if they found out their teen daughters were trying to get pregnant on purpose:

This is the title of a new parenting book, and it disturbs me to no end. It's true that many tweens and teens don't consider oral sex to be true "sex" and often submit to requests for it as nonchalantly as if asked to pass a bottle of ketchup down the table.

The book -- made into a documentary -- chronicles the sex lives of teen girls. The author, Sharlene Azam, also examines the recent emergence of teenage prostitution in affluent suburbs. Middle class girls as young as 12 are having sex with up to seven men a night, several times a week, so they can go shopping.

A lot of moms in the Connecting With Your Teenager group have given it to their daughters to read. But myfoursonsks, who has four boys, reminded moms not to only blame the boys. Even the book author says that your daughter's best friends may be her biggest enemies when it comes to letting down her moral guard.

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My childhood home had a well that was constantly running dry, so whenever my showers exceeded four minutes, my mom would bang on the door until I turned it off. Can a teen girl even rinse the soap from her hair in that amount of time?

So when my husband and I bought our first home, one of my criteria was town water and excellent water pressure so I could luxuriate in a steamy waterfall whenever I wanted. (Sorry, green folks, I get few pleasures in life, and long showers once in a while is one of them.)

I think angiebooboo's son has a pretty good deal -- a SEVEN minute shower limit, that's TWICE as long as I got! Seriously though, angie's up against some steep water bills -- $300 a cycle! -- and is trying to find ways to cut back.

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It's hard enough raising one teen -- imagine having three?! Welcome to RAZmom88's wild and wonderful life. Check back every Thursday to find out what new teen drama, tough topic, or joy she encountered this week.

To kick off the new journal, let's meet RAZmom88 and her family ...

Thank you so much for sharing! Tell us about yourself!

I am a 37 year old mom of three teenagers. I have been married to my husband and their dad for 15 years. We live outside of a small town in Michigan. I worked outside the home until being laid off about six months ago. I am loving being a SAHM. My husband is a maintenance lead for a stamping plant.

I have a wonderful life. God has to be number one in your life and family number two.  The faith I have in God to take care of my family relieves me of a lot of the stress.

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In some towns, trick or treating is against the law once you are in high school. But if you ask CafeMoms, you are never too old to dress up and knock on doors. Most towns still allow trick or treaters of any age. And one mom was wondering about this for her high school freshman. The 14 year old daughter is planning to dress up for Halloween with her friends, but her mom thinks that's ridiculous.

Another mom says that her friend doesn't like it when groups of teens knock on her door late at night because she doesn't know what their intentions are. A neighbor told a CafeMom that she tells high-schoolers outright they are too old to be trick or treating. Ouch, harsh.

The naysayers were a little outnumbered. Lots of moms say their teens still knock on doors asking for candy -- they think it's great (as long as the kids are respectful and stay out of trouble). It keeps them young, so why not?

As soon as I turned 16, I wanted to get a part-time job. My mother let me, as long as my grades and other after-school activities didn't suffer.

My first job was at a movie theater working at the concession stand (oh, how I ended up hating it! LoL). It was a real eye-opener and made me appreciate the value of a dollar.

Check out these links about part-time jobs for teens:

If the report I read recently on Time.com is correct, parents of teens who do dumb stuff like drink, speed, have sex, and other reckless activities have at least one thing to be happy about.

Their kids are so mature! You read me right. Not immature, like everyone once thought. Very mature.

Which means those phrases you use constantly like, "What's that stupid kid done now?" and "Stop acting like an idiot!" are blatantly false and you should stop saying them.

[Okay, here comes the academic reasoning] Scientists armed with brain scanners found that reckless kids have more white space in their craniums than their more cautious, obedient peers. White space is the wiring, the neurons that hold everything together and help speed up the processing potential.

As the social climate around homosexuality changes, many gay youth are coming out as early as middle school.

This change has caught parents and educators completely off-guard and most have had to adapt quickly to deal with these teens' decisions to be out early on in the school years.

My mom always told me that chocolate and french fries were the cause of my bad skin as a teen (sound familiar?).

But new research suggests that genetics play the biggest part in whether teens develop acne. In other words, if parents had severe acne, then teens are more likely to get it, too.

There's not a lot we can do about family history, but there are still some things you can do to help teen acne.