Family - August 2006

It seems to me that ordinary people are like work slaves with fully loaded machine guns, but they are dragging rocks along the path chosen by a few bossy people who only have sticks to beat us with.

For example: We can get multi-national corporations to change their policies where they cause inequality and abuse. We have the power of where to spend our hard-earned money!

Individually it doesn't amount to much, but if enough of people vote with their money, corporations and governments will listen, cause they depend on each other. Also voting through the ballot box for people with similar inclinations would also help.

What do u think?

2006-08-25 17:47:56 · 14 answers · asked by vincegill 3

I'm 14 and for about a year I've been extremely resentful of my parents. They were too harsh on me cause I was somewhat sidetracked then. Today I'm the girl they've ever wanted. Excellent grades (even when I was sidetracked), don't get in trouble, like to take part in volunteering activities.They say they are proud of me and teachers praise them for their good job raising me, which makes me mad cause it's my merit, not theirs. Their only complaint is my resentful behavior. I talk with them only when necessary, act like a stranger. Avoid activities with them and only join them when a problem would arise. They tried to change my behavior, tried to talk with me, even suggested counseling. They say they were harsh cause they love me but I dont agree Now they decided to change my resentful behavior, dont want to accept it any more. They should respec me, I dont do anything wrong and though distant I'm polite Why dont they leave me alone, until I can move? They cant force me to love them

2006-08-25 17:39:01 · 11 answers · asked by Carla 1

i ave just moved to america with my mum n little brother! my dad has lived out here for 2 years now for work! i really didnt want to come but i did as i didnt want to hurt my mums feels! but i really dont like it out here im turning 16 in less than a month and i am alowed to go home and live with my sister and her boyfriend! but without my mum n dad! i love them to bits but im missing my family back home so much!i have a boyfriend to and he is so grate! i just dont want my mum to hate me a feel like i dont want to be with her anymore! Please help me!

2006-08-25 17:36:15 · 12 answers · asked by xXxShortyYxXx 1

Sorry to say but it really creeps me out how so many now decide to use Artificial Inseminatation and others ways to get pregnant that do not Include men In the process. I mean If you give Birth to a boy he can't grow up around Lesbians or life is going to be really toough trying to explain why everyone else has a Daddy and He has two Mommies. By the Way Lesbians do use those options as ways of having Kids.

2006-08-25 17:31:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just had a baby & this is her only grandchild. She has only one son, my fiance, & she is very attached to him. She was there for my during the first stages of my preganacy, when my family was not. Since my son has been born she wants to be over everyday. Calls at least 3 times a day while work to check on the baby, see how he slept, ate, pooped, etc. She pokes advice about feedings and what to ask to doctor. Every time she is around, I rarely get to hold him, feed him, play with him. My son is only a month old & I have to go back to work soon. I am upset about going back & want to spend every day with him unitl I go back. I feel like I am treated like a babysitter and not his mom. I know that I'm a new mom but I have been around children all of my life. How do I deal with her, esp. when i do not like confontation?
He does not want to fight with her, so he lets her win and plus "that's the way she is" I then get told, she cares and my family doesn't, bc they don't "check up" on me.

2006-08-25 17:22:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

my 16 year old brother puts my 11 year old sister in a choke hold and humps her. my parents are ignoring the problem cuz they say he's just being a boy and will outgrow it. but im scared he'll hurt my sister when im not there. what do i do?

2006-08-25 17:18:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I lost 5 points but hey it is worth it ! rock on guys!

2006-08-25 17:18:25 · 1 answers · asked by Paul G 5

I am fostering newborns I have never done this before but I am excited and nervous.I want to give the baby the love that every child deserves but I am scared about how it will feel when she leaves and goes home does anyone have ideas about how to deal with these feelings

2006-08-25 17:15:22 · 7 answers · asked by thecl8tons 2

I saw my father in 2004 after like 10 years. (I was probaly 2 10 years ago, counting from 2004) We talk on the phone but I barely say anything. I have alot of questions to ask but when I talk to him my mind goes blank. I don't know why. Do you guys have any suugestion of what I can talk about, besides my feelings? and Why do you think I'm the way I am when I talk to him? Thanks!!

2006-08-25 17:06:39 · 14 answers · asked by Rahwa 4

Have you already had it in your life? or are you still waiting
for it ? What would like to do during it.

2006-08-25 16:59:40 · 19 answers · asked by John 5

my three year old learns everything from my 7, 9, and 11 year old. She seems so hyper. She needs more things to do. any suggestions?

2006-08-25 16:53:53 · 23 answers · asked by ? 1

2006-08-25 16:51:53 · 29 answers · asked by ville_robert 1

2006-08-25 16:47:39 · 35 answers · asked by loveforpackers 1

to stop someone from running away?????????? my bro is goin' through some tuff times right now..... and i'm just wonderin' if there's any ideas.

2006-08-25 16:45:30 · 6 answers · asked by dOnNa 1

i have 3 kids that their father owes more than 14,000 dollars which i will never see. He lives in GA now and enrolled in some fatherhood program. That's just buying him time to not pay child support. He works a job and quits. What a loser.

2006-08-25 16:34:46 · 12 answers · asked by ? 1

Reccently, my six-teen year old brother ran away. Well he was gone, I found out some... disturbing... things. Things my mother didn't even know. They were not against hte law or anything... do you think he should be punished, or not? I'm just courious. Mom seems not to know what to do with him.

2006-08-25 16:21:31 · 17 answers · asked by I think... 6

2006-08-25 16:18:59 · 29 answers · asked by serene 3

In your life = your profession, your family, your soceity,& all the like..

2006-08-25 16:17:28 · 13 answers · asked by serene 3

2006-08-25 16:05:56 · 6 answers · asked by isayeed786 1

I cannot find anything to calm her down about this. Anyone else experience this?; What did you do?

2006-08-25 16:02:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

my boys 7 years old and 9 years old fight constantly i have no idea what to do.

2006-08-25 15:47:28 · 21 answers · asked by ? 1

my dad is an animal lover. i moved out ,not far, i had a snake it got out of the tank while i was away for 4 days and we found it a week later outside.(in winter) it must of had help out there because there instint is to stay where the warmth is i.e in flat. but i did not tell him he was missing he asked if he was ok and i said yes fine not wanting to be a dissapointment to dad. but when i told him about him dying he came to see me about what happend left then wont speak to me since

2006-08-25 15:32:01 · 17 answers · asked by vince 2

I'm going on 17 yrs old and I know I'll have to go away to college soon, and I want to. but the thing is, I had stayed over my friend's house and I missed my mom just 5 minutes after getting there. i spend like 89.9% of my time with my mom (I kno this is weird because i'm a teenager). and i know that if i go off to college and have to be gone from home for months at a time, it will be terrible, what should I do?

2006-08-25 15:30:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am shutting it off at the source because it is on most of the time. I am looking for some things to distract her with when the cable is shut off. When I was younger, I read a lot.

2006-08-25 15:17:51 · 24 answers · asked by Molly R 3

Its 3 am now and my bed is calling me...Its lovely and warm and its chilly in the room. Lets go to bed now shall we? Just to sleep nothing more ok?

2006-08-25 14:55:22 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I tried offering him breathmints. But you know how old geezers are. The little old man knocked the mints off my hand and told me to mind my own bussiness. When I try to avoid his bad breath he says I'm being "disresctful to elders".

2006-08-25 14:52:02 · 9 answers · asked by ♫MizzUnderstood♫ 3

I'm renting my basement(1 bedroom-kitchen-full bath) to my sister for $100 a month to help her get on her feet and get some money saved before her fiance(who is in college and can't move out of his parents or he'll lose his financial aid) get out on their own. She works a LOT and has 2 dogs that bark while my husband tries to sleep(he's a truck driver). I feel like she should get every privelage any non relative renter would get,but since she's my sister(and a major drama queen) I have a hard time saying no. She wants to get more dogs now and when we say no she pouts and throws a fit. We recently got another dog ourselves and she says "well you just got another one". We have 2 dogs and 2 cats already. We have 1 daughter who us 3 and I'm due in December with our second. I don't want more pets than people in our house, but is it her right as a renter to get more if she wants them? Is she taking advantage or do we just have to live with it?

2006-08-25 14:51:45 · 25 answers · asked by JL's Mom 3

my husband and I have 2 kids they fight every day! can you help us with this problem!polly

2006-08-25 14:40:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-25 14:34:11 · 10 answers · asked by xXxShortyYxXx 1

I came from a large family, i'm the oldest. i'm 28! my parents died a few weeks ago. Now my younger brothers and sisters have to stay with this very mean man. The last i heard he was abusing my siblings. the man apperently won't let the kids use the phone to call for help. I would call for help for them. But i don't know where they live now. I lost all contact with them. I know all of their e-mails and their allowed on the computer. But somehow I lost contact with them and now I can't e-mail them for some strange reason. I'm just asking for someone to help me out. the last i heard was my youngest brother is very ill cause of his asthma and he lost his inhaler. That's the last I heard of them. And I wanna know that everything is fine with them now. so i'm asking for someone who is kind enough to help me out. cause I don't know what to do anymore. Could you please help me through this. And I have to tell you that this is no lie so don't think it is. and thanks in advance!

2006-08-25 14:33:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous