did you parents ever really sit down and talk with you about life?
Where they truly honest with you about how messed up things are out there?
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2007-05-17 08:49:45 · 8 answers · asked by Slappy 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
Somewhat... my mom tried to scare me from doing dangerous things by telling me she knew someone who died doing that. She was quite graphic... if I went outside alone, she knew a little girl who got kidnapped and murdered for going outside alone. If I horsed around with my brothers, she knew kids who got their necks broken and died doing the same thing. When I was high school she knew someone who partied too much and died from it, or got an STD and died or whatever. I think I was in my 20s before I realized she was full of it! Oh well, it worked.
2007-05-17 08:56:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my parents were great when i was young. but around the time i turned seven, things started to change. my brother was defiant, and they spent their time disciplining him and I, more than they spent time...well, caring about us.
this continued until, at age seventeen, my brother got sent away. My parents had an ex-marine pick him up without any warning at 4:15 in the morning and flew him from Alpine Utah, where our family has lived our entire life, all the way to my grandparents in North Carolina. I didn't even get to say goodbye.
Now, my parents are having a repeat experience with me. But their tolerance rope is a lot shorter, after going through my brother. They are taking away my friends, my privileges, and threatening to send me to a Youth Correctional Facility in St. George.
They have taken me to who knows how many councilors, had me tested for ADD, ADHD, bi-polar disorder, depression, anger problems, emotional problems....seriously, everything you can think of.
All of my councilors say i am okay, and every test has come up negative. They just say that i am an average defiant teenager with authority problems. i disappear a lot without telling my parents where i am going, but am always just around the corner in our neighborhood with my friends, the only people who love me or listen to me anymore, and also what i am not allowed to have.
now, i feel like my parents have devoted their life to thinking up what to do with me, how to get rid of me, or 'fix' me.
my parents have never sat me down and just talked, have never admitted that they aren't perfect, and that it could be better between us all. Never told me that it isnt' all my fault, like i have been led to believe.
they blame me for the problems in their marriage, because of how much they fight about how to 'control' me.
it hurts. i want to run away, or go live with relatives, but i am so emotionally attached to my friends, i don't know if i could manage without them. i am also very bad with...change, i guess you could say.
hope this was the kind of story you were looking for.
2007-05-17 09:02:05 · answer #2 · answered by -Nessa- 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no my parents didnt tell me about the dangers and facts of life i had to learn the hard way and got abused by a family member wish i was talked to by my parents kind of crappy parents until i guess now they are good because i know what is right and wrong
2007-05-17 08:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by shebas mom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think most parents want to insulate their kids frombad things that happen in the world. I don't think many are successful.
2007-05-17 08:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never actually sat me down however they were always honest with me about things.
2007-05-17 08:53:08 · answer #5 · answered by LadyD1019 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never. My parents weren't talkers. Great parents though!
2007-05-17 08:52:51 · answer #6 · answered by luckford2004 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah ! & they still do.
2007-05-17 08:57:19 · answer #7 · answered by Cey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope...... sry
2007-05-17 08:52:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋