BusynMember
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Honestly, Jumper is a basket case because she's running for prom queen, everyone tells her she's going to win easily, and she knows that other kids have been told this, but she is highly embarassed at the thought of not winning when she is expected to win. She is cranky (I almost asked her if she had her period, but decided that would not be smart) and threw her boyfriend and prom date out of the house last night. I asked her what the deal was and she cried and said, "I'm scared. No, I'm terrified."
So why did she run?
I remember how things happened that I felt were the end of the world when I was a teen. Now that we are older, we know what a real problem is. So I thought we'd maybe have a fun third retro thread and talk about an incident or basic things that we really felt angst over when we were a teen. I have a list and when I say they gave me angst, I mean, they made me cry or had me pacing or biting my nails (nasty habit) or even having a meltdown, depending.
1/A bad hair day. I wake up and noticed that my hair was a little greasy and had no time to wash it before school. All day I would be thinking that EVERYONE was noticing MY hair and that people were thinking I looked ugly.
2/If a boy I liked didn't call me, that was one of my major stresses. This was probably my biggest stress: boys. I was rebellious and didn't do school activities or care about my grades (I'd given up on getting good grades way before high school), so it all fell upon if the boy I liked liked me back. It is really pathetic when I think about it, but it causes more meltdowns, parent/kid fights, defiance and tears than anything else in my teens. I look back and think, "Wow, I wasted those years."
3/Being made fun of was a dealbreaker when I was a teen. Although it no longer happened to me much in school because I had learned to skillfully stick up for myself with my peers, I felt my parents made fun of me and that would cause WWIII. I still look back and don't think my parents knew how to handle a sensitive, Learning Disability (LD) child with mental illnes (who does...lol), but I certainly had this gloom and doom "woe is me, my parents are the worst in the world" attitude which really wasn't true. A lot of what they said was frustration and trying to parent a child who would not listen to the rules.
Your turn. Hope it's more lighthearted than mine
So why did she run?
I remember how things happened that I felt were the end of the world when I was a teen. Now that we are older, we know what a real problem is. So I thought we'd maybe have a fun third retro thread and talk about an incident or basic things that we really felt angst over when we were a teen. I have a list and when I say they gave me angst, I mean, they made me cry or had me pacing or biting my nails (nasty habit) or even having a meltdown, depending.
1/A bad hair day. I wake up and noticed that my hair was a little greasy and had no time to wash it before school. All day I would be thinking that EVERYONE was noticing MY hair and that people were thinking I looked ugly.
2/If a boy I liked didn't call me, that was one of my major stresses. This was probably my biggest stress: boys. I was rebellious and didn't do school activities or care about my grades (I'd given up on getting good grades way before high school), so it all fell upon if the boy I liked liked me back. It is really pathetic when I think about it, but it causes more meltdowns, parent/kid fights, defiance and tears than anything else in my teens. I look back and think, "Wow, I wasted those years."
3/Being made fun of was a dealbreaker when I was a teen. Although it no longer happened to me much in school because I had learned to skillfully stick up for myself with my peers, I felt my parents made fun of me and that would cause WWIII. I still look back and don't think my parents knew how to handle a sensitive, Learning Disability (LD) child with mental illnes (who does...lol), but I certainly had this gloom and doom "woe is me, my parents are the worst in the world" attitude which really wasn't true. A lot of what they said was frustration and trying to parent a child who would not listen to the rules.
Your turn. Hope it's more lighthearted than mine