paranoid parents & paintball

[mxpxpunk1220]

haha

ok like did you ever try freaking out on ur parents? like seriously. i do it all the time and then i talk trash about myself right in front of my parents and they feel bad for me. just stupid stuff like me being stupid.lol. it works. oh crap my parents are pulling in from conferences. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they have my report card. oh my god. gotta go laterk.jnbgkdjfgnk;ljsdfhsj

[FooTemps]

lol...
My parents are the ones that usually freak out on me. I've tried it before but it doesn't work...

[dawump]

I'm thinking of writing a book about stuff like this:

Children are from Mars, Parents are from Uranus

Sorry. Couldn't resist that.

Putting my pschyo-therapist hat on for a minute, I found with my parents that they went against my ideas for one of two reasons:

1) They had a fear about it that they didn't vocalise. eg. They LOVED that I played the violin ( which I hated), but HATED that I played electric guitar ( which I loved.) In many ways they made sure I didn't join a band and try to make a go of it. Looking back now I know that their fear was that if I did make it I would have access to stuff that scared them - drugs, sex, drink... but they never told me that, and perhaps never even told themselves. If I'd know that this was the issue I could have dealt with it and made things move forward.

2) They had stuff going on in their lives ( work and all that ) that they felt was out of their control - and that made them feel powerless. As an outlet for this powerlessness they controlled everything around them that they found that they COULD control, which included me. This is very common. I was fortunate in that my parents had a very strong sense of "fairness" so when they did this it wasn't really intentional, but it's pretty common for parents who have very little regard for themselves to get stuck in a rut of treating themselves destructively ( like becoming fat and lazy ) and trying to drag the fun out anyone else around them too.

Sucks.

[FooTemps]

Re: make them listen

Originally posted by hubadlatimmy
go here http://www.northiowaarms.com/parents.html make them read it then see what they say the article was written by dirty dan a few years ago and has great points don't worry though I had the same situation with my parents for 3 years now I am 16 and own a mag and play every other weekend just let them know you want to play more and keep letting them know.

Sorry, won't work. I've given them the apg article that covered all of this and more and they still turned it down. Not to mention the word paintball is in the first sentence of the article...