GIVE ADVICE ON FAMILY & PARENTING

Stupid question #9: Family Reunion Portrait how many generations would be present? Oldest? Youngest?

Stupid question #8: How many kids in your family? How many kids have these kids produced?

I don't know whether to be sad or mad or what...

One of my friends is having trouble with her 13 year old son. The same trouble she had when her daughter was that age, and the same trouble she's STILL having with her 17 year old daughter.

The oldest girl she sent to live with grand ma at 16. Grand ma quickly let her know that wouldn't be an option ever again in life.

She....abandoned?....he r 17 year old when she got arrested for shoplifting. Never went and picked her up from the jail so they put her in foster care. That case is on-going. Haven't seen her since February.

The girl, to be fair, is a nightmare of angry language and defiance. Total nightmare child from hell. Seriously. If you can think of it? That kid's done it to her mom.

Now the baby is showing signs of "rage out of control" and other troubling behavior.

Hey peeps, this time the lady's in PARENTING classes and everything. She's doing everything she can to get it right this time...seriously. She is. She's not hitting, yelling, blaming, nothing. She's handling this kid's behavior like a grownup.

Or so I thought. Until I talked to her yesterday.

She's looking into sending him to live with his father.

Did I mention he's never even MET his father? EVER? in LIFE? Not even a photograph? Just a sproadic (when the can catch up with him) child support check here and there?

"When she finds him" She's taking the kid to live with his dad. She's already decided. She's already told the kid. She's already told the WORLD. She's already convinced HERSELF and her SON that "this would be for the best. New atomosphere, new start, new blah blah blah yadda yadda..."

I don't know whether to be sad, mad, disgusted, what...she's got him in counseling but hasn't had the first appointment yet, and yet she's told this kid "I'm basically throwing you away. Oh, you won't be HOMELESS like your SISTER, but I AM getting rid of you."

That poor kid. That poor, poor kid. The minute you fuck up in this house? Your ass is GONE.

why do the wrong people have kids? Why?

I am just so damn sad. And disgusted. And frustrated. And SAD. So damn SAD.

I don't have a question. I can't talk to her (I TRIED PEOPLE!!! But other than give my "opinion?"...and I'm not in any position to take him?)

Thanks for listening.

What's a word that rhymes with tongue ?

How would you fix this situation ?
Was texting my 13 yr old daughter and her father at the same time and accidently texted my daughter the wrong message meant for her father.

'Thought you were going to wait for my tongue ?' was the exact message. What to do ?

Is he guilty or not?

Two parents takes their child to the doctor multiple times for suspicious injuries and the doctor asks the father if he abused his child. The father becomes enraged and storms out of the office. Does he appear guilty or is he just offended?

During my nap..I had a dream of my now 22 year old son...BUT in

my dream..he was only 10.....aweeeeee...have you ever had dreams of your adult children as small children? It's like entering a time capsule...how sweet is that?

Why do family members need to take one another to court?

If you go to court to argue over an estate that's not worth very much anyways, lawyers get a cut out of that too? We used to run together and play hide and seek and borrow each others clothes, now we can't sit down and divide things evenly or make joint decisions.

Why?

ok let's do rock, paper, scissors - best outta 3......it's really not funny though.

The Little So and So

Has your child ever snitched on you to complete strangers?

For instance, does he/she ever go up to a complete stranger you're chatting up and say "Dad, we're in the wrong aisle for the hair dye?"

Do we raise our children to be like us...

or unlike us?

If you think about this, it's not as simple a question as it appears!!!

Is this unforgivable?

My sister (she is 8 years older) is really upset with me. She gave me her reasons, but I need some other opinions as to what the hell happened.

Three weeks ago, I received a call from her in an airport in Mexico asking for a ride home because they canceled her initial departure flight. She needed to pick a flight to take home, but regardless of which one she was going to arrive here in the middle of the night.

Being that she didn't ask me to pick her before and knowing that she has flown by herself and taken a cab home MANY times (we live in NYC, it's no biggie), I went out of town (5 hours away) and would be out of town for quite some time.

So when she asked me if I can pick her up, I said I didn't know and that I was far away. Eventually I said yes because of the guilt, but she was already angry with me and said she would take a cab that the airline provided for her FREE OF CHARGE to take home.

Is this really unforgivable? Oh yeah, and then she insults me and tells me I'm selfish and stops speaking to me for three weeks.

Update: September 08, 2010.
Okay everyone...she is 36 years old. My post said she is 8 years OLDER than me. I'm obviously not a fetus. I do not have an eight year old sister. Please learn how to read. Thanks.