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Who was a teen difficult child and what did you do to get the label? True confessions!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 463070" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>I was but no where near close to Danny. I was raised to be independent and had to take care of the house and my brother when I was 11, and I think a lot of the trouble started when I wanted to be independent on my own behalf once I hit my teens-comming from an Italian catholic background, needless to say that didn't go down well. </p><p></p><p>Looking back now, my mothers "fear based" parenting skills was not a good match for me. For every stupid thing she said that didn't materialize just fed my belief she was full of it. Gems such as "don't take off your coat in the theatre" When asked why, she said men were watching for kids without a coat, and snuck up on them an injected them with drugs so they could molest them. "Don't wear a bra to bed" When I asked her why, she said I would get pregnant" You have to be home by 9:00. When asked why, she said girls always get in trouble after 9:00 because the only thing there is to do is have boys molest them" Couldn't use tampons as it would make me lose my virginity. </p><p></p><p>Its funny now but it was no wonder I suffered from anxiety/panic attacks when I was little but after a while she had no credibility what so ever when she said something. I can't even claim to being a really bad difficult child, I never cut school, never dabbled in drugs till I was like 22, and it was rare that I even drank anything - only thing I did do was sex, first time at 14, more out of curosity just to see what she was making such a big deal about. I remember it was after school one day, around 2 in the afternoon, so that 9:00 business that I was warned about..just one more pfffffft.. ROFLMBO</p><p></p><p>I did leave home at 17 - too much conflama - I wanted to do what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it, and didn't like the constant conflict and control attempts at home. She was always sure I was sleeping my way cross country in a drug induced haze, dragged out of my house by those "bad" friends of mine (you know, the one that wore too much eyemakeup and like to dress in black), but nothing could have been further from the truth. Course there were years of Mr. Toad's Wildride for me being pretty much impulsive and clueless about the world, but its been a grand adventure.</p><p></p><p>The only thing I feel sorry about is that I never had a real relationship with my mother - I would never be the daughter she envisioned and wanted, someone quiet, dutiful, a homebody who would be content to spend my time sitting with her on the front porch dis'n the neighbors and watching the traffic go by like everyone else in the family<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 463070, member: 47"] I was but no where near close to Danny. I was raised to be independent and had to take care of the house and my brother when I was 11, and I think a lot of the trouble started when I wanted to be independent on my own behalf once I hit my teens-comming from an Italian catholic background, needless to say that didn't go down well. Looking back now, my mothers "fear based" parenting skills was not a good match for me. For every stupid thing she said that didn't materialize just fed my belief she was full of it. Gems such as "don't take off your coat in the theatre" When asked why, she said men were watching for kids without a coat, and snuck up on them an injected them with drugs so they could molest them. "Don't wear a bra to bed" When I asked her why, she said I would get pregnant" You have to be home by 9:00. When asked why, she said girls always get in trouble after 9:00 because the only thing there is to do is have boys molest them" Couldn't use tampons as it would make me lose my virginity. Its funny now but it was no wonder I suffered from anxiety/panic attacks when I was little but after a while she had no credibility what so ever when she said something. I can't even claim to being a really bad difficult child, I never cut school, never dabbled in drugs till I was like 22, and it was rare that I even drank anything - only thing I did do was sex, first time at 14, more out of curosity just to see what she was making such a big deal about. I remember it was after school one day, around 2 in the afternoon, so that 9:00 business that I was warned about..just one more pfffffft.. ROFLMBO I did leave home at 17 - too much conflama - I wanted to do what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it, and didn't like the constant conflict and control attempts at home. She was always sure I was sleeping my way cross country in a drug induced haze, dragged out of my house by those "bad" friends of mine (you know, the one that wore too much eyemakeup and like to dress in black), but nothing could have been further from the truth. Course there were years of Mr. Toad's Wildride for me being pretty much impulsive and clueless about the world, but its been a grand adventure. The only thing I feel sorry about is that I never had a real relationship with my mother - I would never be the daughter she envisioned and wanted, someone quiet, dutiful, a homebody who would be content to spend my time sitting with her on the front porch dis'n the neighbors and watching the traffic go by like everyone else in the family:) [/QUOTE]
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