Older children bicker with siblings, whine, miss their carpool pick up, roll their eyes at you, whine some more, make extreme messes, flunk tests, leave laundry on the floor and argue with you about it all.
You could join the sky-diving society at Nottingham or Warwick, or Manchester's extreme sport society (Mess), and take part in one of their regular bungee jumps.
Exercise extreme caution not to mess up a surfer's ride on your way out.
So it is sad to report that the American right is in a mess: fratricidal, increasingly extreme on many issues and woefully short of ideas, let alone solutions.This matters far beyond America's shores.
Typically, in an extreme market crisis, like the mortgage mess of late 2007, most types of equities tend to lose money in lock step.
Swinney points out that while the city is a, "damp, blurry, highly saturated mess of images," the extreme close-ups of Bickle's eyes are stable.
Petraeus, who met Friday with both the House and Senate intelligence committees to discuss the Benghazi, Libya, mess, was treated with extreme deference, getting whisked to his visits under heavy security entirely out of the eyes of the press.
Mess around and make joke tracks, record extreme or weird kinds of sounds you wouldn't normally want to listen to.
Hallmarks of the disorder include difficulty parting with possessions, no matter their value, clutter so extreme that it makes living areas and furniture unusable, and mess that interferes with daily functioning and safety.
The fiasco suggests that networks mess with the inertia of viewing habits at their extreme peril.
