My Single Mom Life

I feel wicked bad for the teens, they inherited their father's bad skin genes.
I rarely ever had any acne growing up, and if I did, it was 1 itty bitty pimple, and I would zap it with cleansers and toothpaste, and it would be gone by morning.
But their dad, well, he would break out something fierce.

So I was tucking them in bed last night, I know I know, I still tuck in my 15 and 17 year old sons, but they ask me to, so I do.
Anyway, as I was tucking in Sebastian, he requests that I tuck him in first, do the blanket flip and tuck, he wiped back the hair off of his face and told me to look at his forehead.
It was covered in acne.
I asked him if he's been washing his face like I taught him to, if he's been using the acne treatment I bought for them, and he admitted that he hasn't been doing it, so I said, "Well, if you're not taking care of your face properly, the way you've been taught, this is the end result."
He laughed and said, "If you think mine is bad, go check out Mark's face!" and he let out an even more evil laugh.
I said goodnight, left his room, and shut off his light.

I then went into Mark's room, had to do the blanket flip and tuck with him too, and I had to wipe the hair from his face to see what the evil laughing was all about.
His face, too, was covered in acne, all over his forehead.
I didn't even get a chance to say anything, he just announced that he hasn't been using the cleansers I bought, so he only washes with soap and water in the shower.
I asked him if he liked zits or something, and he said no, but "I have long hair, no one can see them anyway. Ha ha."

He said he uses them sometimes, when he remembers, but most mornings he's just too tired and lazy to do it.
Hey, at least he's honest about being lazy about doing it.
I just feel bad that they inherited bad skin, and I wish I could clear it all up for them, but they need to do it, they need to actually take the time to wash their faces right, use the cleansers, dab on the treatment gel at night to dry them all up, but they don't, and I'm not going to hover over them like a super protective mother hen and nag them to do it.
Eventually they will figure it all out, good clean skin with no zits has it's bennies.