Hey you! Yeah you, the one with the teenager daughter who keeps posting pictures of her anorexic stomach, celery stick lunches, salad only dinners, sharing tanning beds with her sister, dressing room shots of trying on underwear, and all the parties where she’s boozing with her friends…don’t you think its time you pulled your head out of your ass and paid attention to her and what she’s up to instead of just throwing designer purses, clothes, watches and high priced electronics at her? Why did you have kids if you don’t have to time to actually parent them or even spend any time with them? Don’t you care that your 16 old is boozing every weekend? Or is it just easier to stick your head in the sand and pretend you don’t know? Seriously, check out their Facebook page will you—it’s all right there for you to see if you don’t believe me. Do you really think its normal to have a beer gut at 16 or 17? Too many teenage girls are growing up with too much “stuff” and not enough parents, discipline, morals or self esteem… Some day this will all come back to haunt them—and you too if you don’t start caring and pay attention to what’s going on…discipline is not a 4 letter word and you aren’t her “friend”- someday she’ll thank you for giving enough of a shit to do the hard thing and say “no” when its for her own good… —Turns Out Mom and Dad Were Actually Always Right
This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2013.
True story.
The Captain waged war with his parents growing up. Turns out, all those battles made him a contributing member of society. Had I not been challenged and disciplined as much by my parents it’s possible I’d be a non-contributing, public tit sucking, baggy pants wearing, dew rag rockin’, drugs to little kids selling, fuck the police type, collar poppin, bottle collecting, empty Tim’s cup shakin’, douche-bag extraordinaire.
Ummm yeah…those things were happening long before facebook. And if a parent needs to look at their child’s facebook profile to learn what kind of person they are and what they are up to, then I doubt they are gonna listen to you. Not that you told them.
There are way too many parents who find it simplier to throw consumer goods at children than spend time with them – this only teaches kids to have an overblown sense of entitlement. Kids need to rebel, as Cap pointed out – take that away and you could end up with a siphoning slug of society.
Hold on… me confused…..1st you said she had a anorexic stomach…then a beer gut?
Sorry….you can’t have both…1 or the other….
Besides….she is 16-17..I partied my ass off each weekend…..
If the girl makes good grades in school….then what difference does it make.
You sound more jealous than offended…
Go have a drink.
What Joe said!
A 16 year old growing up today, is growing up in a different world from just 5 years ago.Availability of addictive drugs can be as simple as going to school and asking the right person.If that poor girl’s mother doesn’t step up to parent her child eventually hydro-cortisone will then the streets, pimps,pregnancy then???
I’ve seen that scenario play out too many times.Basically the mother wants to be her daughter’s best friend instead of being the mother her child wants and needs.
Hydro-cortisone is a corticosteroid, similar to a natural hormone produced by your adrenal glands and often used to treat inflammatory skin conditions. And the jump from out of control partying to living on the streets, pregnant and working for a pimp is a little over dramatic.
Lou Your right I was way off on the name of the drug I originally thought of.Hydromorphone Hydrochloride was the drug I meant. Thanks 🙂
Sure it doesn’t happen to every teenage girl and it does sound overly dramatic.It doesn’t happen over night.It can and does happen.Something not enough parents worry about…One teenage girl falling victim, is too many.
I may have had a few rough times as a teenager a while back, but it’s the idiot adults that I encounter make me wonder about the future of mankind. Humans plus technology equal stupidity. Patent pending. My movie rights.
Or has it been done?
Agreed, Boru. And, I should have said before, I really do think you mean hydrocodone. Obviously you’re not a drug addict. lol 🙂
Sixteen is still a child in my books. Good to keep tabs on her if possible (I realize with cellphones and whatnot, that can be difficult) a good parent has to be the bad guy sometimes (a lot of the time with teenagers).
I also disagree with Lou, I don’t think out of control partying and living on the streets is a dramatic leap. Introduce the girl to crack for example and her life could spiral into the gutter in no time at all.
It was just about as easy to get drugs in HS over 30 years ago. Every HS had at least one kid who was the local drug/NSLC store. There were less pregnancies then. It seems to me that as there are more easily and available birth control methods out there, the more and more young girls are getting pregnant. One would think it would be the opposite way. The only thing I will say is that with the advent of the internet, porn is easier to get – and free.
Brotim Yes your right, getting drugs in HS it’s the same today as it was 30 years ago.Smoking a joint outside near the back door of the school isn’t the same as banging a Dilaudid in the bathroom.Yes, it does happen in HS’s today.
Calm down on the Italics. Seventeen is practically adulthood. What 17 year old doesn’t try to sneak a drink, and if they succeed – post the pics on F/b to look cool to their friends. But the tanorexic does need a bitchslap for the celery sticks.
so she has an anorexic stomach AND a beer gut?
Why are you creeping a teenager’s facebook page, dude?