boys to men volume 1 - waxing works

This is a first, in a serious of posts, in a survival series Dave and I are creating.  Surviving raising boys into men.  Not that we do much of the raising.  They grow and mature, and I lament the fact and then am forced to live through it and have so far survived.  So . . .

Tip/skill #1 - Waxing Works:
Yes waxing.
For any male readers who may not know, or postertity, who may wonder as well, it is a way of removing unwanted hair from the body.

The problem: my 2 oldest boys have started looking more like Poncho Villa, okay wait, I have no idea who Poncho Villa is, so lets say,, the 2 oldest, have started looking more like Pedro (Napoleon Dynamites best buddy) than themselves.  That dark hair on the upper lip has becomes hard to ignore.  But Peter's started coming in thick at least a year ago, and he was only 14, and James is right there with him now, at almost 14.  Shaving at 14?  Weird.  The Latino look isn't quite what the boys want to sport right now, but the prospect of shaving has us all leery.
MOM to the rescue.
Waxing Strips.
You don't even have to heat them up.  They come in a little kit at the drug-store (which is also a retro name in this day in age).
Not dummy proof, but not too hard to deal with, and we are keeping those budding mustaches at bay.
I don't know how long we will keep this up.  I am sure I will record, at least in writing, the first shave, when that comes about.