It's the way you say it. My mom came to me with a problem about my teenage sisters. I'm a teacher with a year of experience handling some of the worst high schoolers you've ever seen. Apparently my sisters were getting snappy with their attitude and my mom wanted to know what she could say to them to not make it worse.

But here was the real problem: she wasn't frustrated as a mom; she was actually hurt as though there were supposed to be buddies. Just my opinion, that's one of the worsts mistakes you can make as a parent. You are NOT their to be your son's/daughter's friend; you are there to do whats best for them, regardless of how they feel. Teens are gonna have attitude because that's part of growing up (as long as its not out of hand), so there's no need to take it personally.

Don't threaten with punishments without any intention of enforcing it (with the hope that your kids will suddenly love you out of fear). Kids catch on to inconsistency real fast (especially teens).

I told my mom the next time they gave her lip to just pull a poker face and say: "I guess you don't want to go to your friends house tomorrow" then walk away, no arguments, just results.

ya, I have heard that when it comes to children or women, violent crimes, that other prisoners will take care of it!!!!

the only frozen bananna I ever had was at Disney world .It was a frozen bannana dipped in chocolate and nuts.Is that what you mean? It was really good but I never made them.

I can relate, Karen. After my wife died I prayed for death. My friend, Nene who no longer frequents the forum for some time helped me with that. I only read one of Stephen King's book and that was "IT". I was more into fantasy than horror. My life was horror and I really didn't need any more. But it was a quotation of Stephen King's that actually I could relate with. I didn't know that Stephen King was an alcoholic. But the quote that got to me was, "God punishes us with life." I am paraphrasing and can't remember the exact quote. Later I found out that my fantasy author, Peirs Anthony and Stephen King were actually good friends. They made a deal to try each others' genre. What became of it was "Firefly" by Peirs. I can't remember what Stephen King wrote in fantasy right now. After a while of praying for death and seeing that prayer wasn't going to be answer by the way of my death I decided that I should instead make the best of it. During the worse part of my grief I thought God was cruel for letting me live. If he was a good friend he would have let me die. I began to look at Stephen King's quote as, "What kind of monster lets a person live when their soulmate has died?" My problem that I was too weak to take my own life so all of my suicides always failed. Eventually I just asked God to fill me with his love because he took away my love. It worked.

Dang....I was sitting here thinking this was a Friday night

This reminds me when I lived with my older sister once. At first it was come live with me. Then it was you need to pay fifty dollars a week to live with me. Then it was while you are here you can watch your three nephews when we are away. After a while you get the impression that it is better to have your own place because you would come out ahead.

thats just not right amber.your daughter should know the truth and now.all three of you need to sit down and tell her.
I found out i was adopted when i was 5 and i accepted it much better then if i would have been told at thirteen.My goodness what were they thinking?