LOVE A TON

Dear Teachers,

1. Although your son probably doesn't show it now, looking back he'll love you a ton for it.

- "love you a ton" means "love you very much", right? and is this common?

2. Unfortunately, as all 12 year old boys do (myself included), most likely, we're going to blow our parents off to their face.

- What does "blow our parents off to their face" mean here?

Thanks very much to Teachers,

 Stevenukd.

1. Although your son probably doesn't show it now, looking back he'll love you a ton for it.

- "love you a ton" means "love you very much" Yes, it does.

2. Unfortunately, as all 12 year old boys do (myself included), most likely, we're going to blow our parents off to their face.  I don't know what this means.  Never seem to have heard it before and I really can't resist the temptation to say that it sounds rather rude.  However, come to think of it, it could also mean to blow them away (to take them by surprise or to give them a shock).

To "blow someone off" means that you ignore their advice, or if you are supposed to meet someone, you don't show up or don't come.

Mary was supposed to join us for dinner, but she's blowing us off because she got a call from that guy she's interested in.

Or That's bad advice - just blow it off. Of course, what a teenager considers to be bad advice is not what a parent considers to be bad advice.

"In your face" or "to your face" means to be blatent about it.

So, in combination, this means to snub them, or what my guilty-pleasure Regency romance novels would call "give them the cut direct."

You drop your 12-year-old son off at school and say "I love you." He completley ignores you - he has blown you off (to your face).

Interesting!

Blow her off vs. Blow her out... I'll add that to the AmE/BrE difference file.