Buying a used car is always a gamble. You could be driving off with a total lemon. If you are lucky, next time you are in the market for one, you will come across an ad like the one recently spotted on Craigslist. Not only does it detail all the dings and various other crappy parts, but it offers something that all parents of teenagers will appreciate: it guarantees no one will ever have sex with the car's owner!

Congratulations, Mom! You've actually made it all the way to the teen years without (technically) losing your mind. Except there's a good chance you'll lose it in the very near future, because this gig is NOT for the faint of heart. Seriously, did you put your parents through the same torture?? Because if you did, you better buy your mom something better for Mother's Day than that pair of slippers you found on sale. Speaking of which, all you really want this Mother's Day is 24 hours without someone rolling their eyes at you. Am I right? Here are 25 more ways you know you're the mom of a teen.

I understand wanting to give your kids everything, but there's got to be a limit -- especially when the law provides a pretty specific age limit. That didn't deter Mohammed Nisham, however, who allowed his son to drive his Ferrari for his ninth birthday.

It wasn't just around some empty parking lot or quiet block, but rather on a city street. He wasn't on dad's lap; he was in full control of the Ferrari, and dad wasn't even riding shotgun. The boy's 7-year-old brother was in the passenger seat. Unbelievable, right? Well, fortunately, the boy's mom filmed the whole thing, so you can see for yourself.

Remember when your grade school teacher told you there was no such thing as a stupid question? Turns out there's no such thing as a stupid lecture for your kids either. No really, no matter how basic and common sense a topic is, you might want to talk to your kids about it. You don't want your kid being one of the 20 percent of teens who actually think drugs and alcohol make them better drivers, do you?

I read that little bomb dropped by SADD this week, and my head just started aching. Haven't we had SADD and MADD and all that jazz around for long enough now that kids should know better?

You've got to give this kid points for taking initiative at least, as dangerous as his initiative may have been. It happened this weekend when the unidentified 6-year-old got a craving for Chinese food. So he grabbed his parents' car keys off of the counter, and set off in search of his fix around 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning

Having never driven before, he had some trouble. According to The Detroit News, he collided with a "no left turn" sign in his family's Ford Taurus station wagon and, being the responsible kid he is, decided he needed to get the car fixed. So he headed toward the car dealer to get the work done.

Going to the prom (or just "prom," as the kids say) is one of those rites of passage I'm not particularly looking forward to my kids going through. I mean, I don't know about you all, but my memories of "prom" aren't all corsages and bowties. Still, no matter what your definition of the prom experience involves, it's safe to say these kids in Georgia got robbed of whatever it is. Why? Because they spent pretty much the entire evening in the parking lot ... and not for the reason you're probably thinking.

Whenever I hear about a quick-thinking kid who manages to survive some horrible situation on sheer intuition, my reaction is always to say a little silent prayer for my kids to have those same life-saving instincts (should they, God forbid, ever find themselves in a similar spot). Even as adults, we never know how we'll react under pressure -- especially the kind of pressure a New Jersey teen found herself under when a 45-year-old woman put a gun to her head, forced her into a car, and told her to drive to Philadelphia, or else.

The teen (whose identity remains anonymous) did as she was told -- sort of. She drove the car, anyway.

It's every parent's worst nightmare -- or at least one of my worst nightmares: six Ohio teens were killed and two more were injured when their SUV struck a guardrail, turned over, and crashed into a swamp. (The two teens who survived apparently escaped by smashing a window and swimming to shore, where they ran to a nearby residence and called 911.)

Authorities aren't sure what caused the crash yet, though the vehicle was overloaded with passengers -- none of whom, it's being reported, were wearing seat belts. Now, I honestly can't say if seat belts would have saved the teens who lost their lives so tragically in this underwater crash, but the fact that they weren't wearing them just makes the whole thing that much more horrifying to me as a mom. My kids aren't teens yet but one will be soon -- and the more independence our kids have, the less control we have.