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mar09

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abru said:
Hi mar09,

Parental expectations: I usually say yes to whatever my mother asks me, almost like direct military orders I should obey. On rare occassions I ask her to reconsider her request if I deem it it unneccesary or wrong, but most of the time, she is reasonable.I do what she asks because it will make her happy. I had a small room which was never messy; my closet though was sometimes disorganized.. I learned to make my bed in a weird way that makes it neat for up to a week. I slide in and slide out. I was critical of how my room looked, I had a well maintained small shelf topped with aircraft models ( I collect them) and other decorations. As for looks, I don't really mind. I dislike applying facial and hair products and stuff like that, the natural soap and water gives me a clear face, thus no pimples. I have a fairly poor apetite if I stay home all day, I eat when I am hungry and can sometimes delay meals due to my apetite, but I will eventually eat well, and also eat well if I got school or outdoor work. Chores: I personally hate doing the laundry but I do dishes, rarely cook or try to cook and I took care of our pet dog. I am particularly stingy, I saved my allowances and did not really feel compelled to spend them on outside stuff...
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It is good to hear from a teen. Your mother must be glad to see u understanding the need to obey now too. It is summer break, isnt it? I hope u are not home all day, as son who is on break here is. That is, they do go out, and some parents in fact wish their kids would stay home more often... but catching up on sleep after a hectic school yr seems long enough. I think they long to go back to school already. You may not know but the academic year here is being adjusted, and since school used to start in June, some schools have started to move it to July, others to august, and its really confusing! Some students are still stuck at home, others have already been reporting to class for a month!
Ok to be stingy when ur saving for something, but i hope u reserve for church offerings too. When we were catholic, we used to give loose change, and never knew the OT people gave 10% tithes. and i never heard such teaching in church either anyway. It is easier to spend than to save.
 
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No one longs to go back to school. Believe me. Even the nerds.
 
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Colt45Bullet

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Not all schools are bad. Honestly, college seems pretty fun
 
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lol even in tho in this year I often got sick because this year was so horrible I still enjoyed a lot. I would look at my scedule and see when I had the teachers I get along with the best and that would give me the strenght and all to go forward

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Not all schools are bad. Honestly, college seems pretty fun
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Colt45Bullet said:
Not all schools are bad. Honestly, college seems pretty fun
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I didn't say school was bad, it's sort of ok really apart from the annoying bits, I just said no one longed to go back.
 
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So, this is my opinion, yes I totally agree that all teens are different. i go to a public school, and walking down the hallway you see so many different personalities and different everything in everyone. usually (some) teenagers will find their parents boring and that is just a fase, during that fase they're just trying to figure out who they are. in a public school it's incredibly hard to find who you are, to find your group of friends. but this might be a different situation but that's okay. embarrassment will come, and they'll learn to cope. i did at least. i mean it sucks but you cope. i think it's good to let them go out with friends. don't lock them up, it'll lead to bad things. yes of course make sure they're safe but let them go with them, those are memories. I don't know, my town/ school might be completely different but i hope this helped
 
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mar09

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Thanks for that. Seems like i get days to pass by before being able to reply. The past week esp. Looking back, i remember sometimes not agreeing or believing what my parents were saying at the time, but not really used the word boring. In fact i pretty admired my father's habits, and he'd advise us on building good habits, because if we dont, we simply go the other way and build up the wrong ones. He liked to read, and wanted us to have books and encyclopedia around when possible, also watched news regularly after he retired so news time was kind of reserved for him (unlike now when u can access news any time of the day), but it made u look forward to current events hour-), and reminded on healthy habits w/o nagging. Ma, however was often into things, if not cooking, fixing, arranging or rearranging, clearing stuff, and the garden of course.

Although they gave opportunities to 'work on' fresh jackfruit (takes time to separate the sweet fruit from the latex-y rind-- and clean up afterwards), for example, and also grating mature coconut for extracting the milk (memories!), the latter being hardly done now for u can get freshly squeezed milk at the mkt most of the time... it was the woodworks/occasional cementing i didnt seem to have had the chance to do unlike older sibs. And i wish i learned those. I dot mind getting hands dirty with soil when gardening, weeding, but tougher things were beyond me. They were strict abt curfews (10pm) until older sibs needed occsional night out in college. They also encouraged sports, wc i only went into to a small extent.

How late do u stay up? Now i think abt it, how did/do u wake up (aside from using alarm clocks)? sure its still school break, but I dislike waking up the guys, and hope theyd just set their own alarms instead of waiting for the sun to come up.
 
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