Especially when I'm around.

Don't you hate it that other people's parent's are better than yours?

well, duh!

my friend's parents over the weekend were really protective. they were neat, though. her dad liked to burst out into song.

My parents stopped caring when they got to me, since I was the youngest they hardly had any energy left to be overprtective.

my brother and i are interesting children and needed/need a wee bit of guidance (well, mostly my brother) but my folks give me some leeway. my dad has to accompany me to deerhoof because none of my friends who know them know if they can go, but i don't really care.

But what sucked about my childhood is I had at least ten operations before I turned 16.

I know! When I got here I felt so unproductive. It was a mighty, mighty feeling. For me it's just the constant distrupting every 5 minutes to give me a job. Sure they're "preparing me" for the real world, but overly. They need to do the work themselves to prepare themselves for retirement. They're so...naggy and annoying. They remind me of mosquitos.

I actually talked to a social worker about them tonight. She said that they probably just were brought up that way and learned from their parents, but they really SHOULD understand that they're doing too much, and that every child is different. It was a good conversation.

That sucks. Much sympathy to ya

That's a good way to bond with him for sure! My parents would never go to one of the shows that I go to. They went to one of my brother's really obsure noise shows, and they had to leave because they thought it was funny that people considered it music.

Nah don't worry I had so much time out of school. It worked out perfectly.

i've had a few friends that have had a lot of surgeries/things like that. big hugs, man.

rob- heh, dad couldn't give less of a crap about "bearclaw" (as he calls them, with sarcasm) but he's trying. before the death cab concert he had me quiz him about their albums and videos.

That's good

My Mom was and still is very protective. My Dad and I always got along really well. I got along with my Mom also. Just not as well.

I used to love hanging out with my mom, except when she started forcing me to go to church.

Thanks Jade.

i'm closer to my mom just because i live with her and she's my mom, but dad and i are ok. sean inherited (i guess) the aspergers from my dad, so sometimes i end up talking to him like i have to with sean.

nvm

Exactly! I'd love to have a stepdad like that. My stepdad just ignores everyone, watches TV, and goes to work, and would never be sarcastic in a humoristic manner to me. And I'd think he went crazy if he asked me to quiz him

TRIPlE POST

My Dad and I are both big smart asses. My mom always takes offence to it..

I love my Dad he is funny and sarcastiche is always making jokes. Last time I told him I was going to take a shower, he with a serious face said to me, Don't Take a shower. I said "why?" he said to me still in a serious face " Because the water is wet."

ack. you should try one day.

the guy that i think will be my stepdad (mom's boyfriend) is interesting. he's really funny and likes to act like a big kid.


victor- no prob.

my nan used to want to go to church after we stopped going (we went three times the past.. six years or so) but she got over that.

haha. i do that with sean. i tell him that he has to wait for the water to get wet enough before he can shower and he just goes "JADE BE SERIOUS".

I've been getting a few double posts lately as well

I get along with my mom probably because I actually share genes with her. My stepdad is nothing like me :(. I feel more comfortable talking to girls (especially my mom) about personal things than guys, so that's another big reason why I communicate with her better

i really don't get too personal with either of my parents. i do to some extent if i think i need to (i.e. i hate something, i need help with something) but that's it.

I'm cool with my parents, they don't pry to much into my life.

Haha, that's awesome! My stepdad makes me wash the entire bathtub after every shower, and if I'm in too long he plays with the taps to altar the temperature.

I used to be a priest's assistance when I was little. Now I'm strictly agnostic, so it wouldn't really be accurate to be that involved in a single religion

my mom used to pry online but that stopped a while back. i was posting on this militant left-wing forum (i think i was twelve or something) and i would get up at night to find her reading my posts. not that she's right wing.

we were mormon and my folks got married in the salt lake chapel, but the church and my parents had differing views on how to raise a child with autism and such and we just stopped going. i don't really know what i am now. just agnostic, i guess.

i watched my sig frame by frame and i think i can do this.

Funny, My parents don't have knowledge of computers, but they respect privacy, and let us be ourselves. They don't care what we do just that we are happy in life and are doing something positive with it.

I enjoy having personal chats with my mom because it's their goal for me to be sucessful. I cut it down lately because I had a talk with my mom and asked her not to mention it to my brother, and the next day she did right away, so it clues me not to be too too intimate with her anymore.


That's good that you have a good relationship with them! I really with I could get along with mine. I hate portraying this typical "teenage anst" against my parents, but by lying so willingly and looking through my computer just makes me not trust them at all

Same here.

Has anyone heard any of Ian Mackaye's bands aside from Fugazi and Minor Threat?

yeah, my mom's learned that i'm pretty bright and can figure out what to do and not do online. she'll intervene in life if she thinks i'm not doing what i should, but otherwise my mom just kind of stands in the shadows as i figure things out. i think i've done ok so far.

i didn't really care too much for embrace. i don't know why. however, the evens are excellent.

The only thing that bugs me about them is that the pressure they put on me to go to college and so forth. but I know they want me to do better than they did in life. I mean that is why they came to America right?

awesome. Im downloading some Evens now.

WE just blazed right through page 420

I'd rep you if I could for this. This is exactly what the social worker told me. She told me about how parents shouldn't give children and teens so much work and they should respect privacy because you only have one childhood, and you shouldn't ruin it by presenting them adult-like aspets.

Noise not music.

I can't do all-nighters...

oh, totally. but it's your life. my mom's the only one out of four that completed high school and some college (even though somehow my aunt i'm staying with this summer is loaded and lives in silicon valley, but i think marriage played a part in that), so she's pushing me to go on to college. same with my dad- he went to the local college, and just wants me to do what i want.

It's easy when you do it for the fifth time.

steve- yes you can

joel- their new album is really good, especially "mt. pleasant isn't".


creepy parents that force their kids to be 32 at age 8 are the worst. there's nothing more horrible you can do to your kid than make them prissy twits. this little girl in my brother's class (fifth grade!), i swear, is more like a 40-year-old bitch than a kid.

i want to do this so bad, but alas.. i can't.

Nice! I was just about to mention the 420 thingamajig. Evens are excellent! Funny that I heard more from them than Minor Threat, but I was sent a dischord comp yesterday so I'l be able to hear more Minor Threat.

I want to do that too Jade. That sounds like fun.