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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 522572" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>It is amazing to me how alike our stories are on this board. My easy child graduated from college with honrs too and is a very successful teacher. We bought her first car, same year as yours, 2002 hyundai accent. She took such good care of it and we turned it over to difficult child in 2008 when we leased easy child a nissan rouge because she needed something safer to drive the freeway to her college internship. difficult child trashed that car in a couple months and we finally took it away in 2009 after finding alcohol in it. Last January easy child turned the rouge in and leased her own nissan sentra, getting her own loan in her own name and with her own excellent credit. We had helped her over the years get credit cards and bank account and establish good credit. She did everything right.</p><p></p><p>difficult child is still driving that 2002 accent. It is dented and smashed all over, no headlight, floorboard caved in, window broken, looks like trash. She will never be able to afford anything better. She will never have good credit. She has no idea what it means to manage her finances. She doesn't care of she has credit because she will just steal what she needs.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if our difficult child's look at their siblings and see how different their lives are like we see it. I wonder what they think and if they understand it is their own doing that they are not living the same way. easy child is living in a very nice apartment with nice furnishings in a nice area. difficult child lives in a very run down very old apartment that is dirty and is surrounded by drunks and drug dealers with a freeway in her backyard and pit bulls in every yard. It's such a stark difference.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy the time helping easy child and watching her grow into a successful independent woman. It's wonderful she wants your input. You have done a great job and she values your opinion. I have had to learn how to ignore the differences between easy child and difficult child because it's not fair to me or easy child to not enjoy this phase of her life.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 522572, member: 59"] It is amazing to me how alike our stories are on this board. My easy child graduated from college with honrs too and is a very successful teacher. We bought her first car, same year as yours, 2002 hyundai accent. She took such good care of it and we turned it over to difficult child in 2008 when we leased easy child a nissan rouge because she needed something safer to drive the freeway to her college internship. difficult child trashed that car in a couple months and we finally took it away in 2009 after finding alcohol in it. Last January easy child turned the rouge in and leased her own nissan sentra, getting her own loan in her own name and with her own excellent credit. We had helped her over the years get credit cards and bank account and establish good credit. She did everything right. difficult child is still driving that 2002 accent. It is dented and smashed all over, no headlight, floorboard caved in, window broken, looks like trash. She will never be able to afford anything better. She will never have good credit. She has no idea what it means to manage her finances. She doesn't care of she has credit because she will just steal what she needs. I wonder if our difficult child's look at their siblings and see how different their lives are like we see it. I wonder what they think and if they understand it is their own doing that they are not living the same way. easy child is living in a very nice apartment with nice furnishings in a nice area. difficult child lives in a very run down very old apartment that is dirty and is surrounded by drunks and drug dealers with a freeway in her backyard and pit bulls in every yard. It's such a stark difference. Enjoy the time helping easy child and watching her grow into a successful independent woman. It's wonderful she wants your input. You have done a great job and she values your opinion. I have had to learn how to ignore the differences between easy child and difficult child because it's not fair to me or easy child to not enjoy this phase of her life. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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