Teenagers Suck
I know this already… it’s not a surprise to me. But yet… it kinda is. I know that sounds so stupid too. But I am very confused parent. I thought kids were suppose to respond to positive things?? And yet all I get from mine when positive things happen to them is TROUBLE!! Someone really has to put together a manual on child-rearing because I could use a hand. And I’m pretty sure I’ve fucked up somewhere along the line.
It seems like each time I turn around one of my kids is in trouble. Now I know I raised them better! And yet…. they keep getting in trouble. This year has, by far, been the worst year of them getting into trouble. They both been suspended out of school multiple times… in school multiple times as well….and has had a few detentions too if I am not mistaken. One of them has been in so much trouble… if she wasn’t special-needs and didn’t already have an state-education plan in place… the school would have removed her already.
And their grades??? Well one of them doesn’t see to care at all. She failed 3 courses first semester and her grades aren’t looking much better so far this semester. I just don’t know what to do. I have given her all the tools she needs… plus I give her my support. I am willing to help with homework… help her get tutoring…whatever she needs. The only thing I will not do… is to do the work for her. And yet she still chooses to be… in don’t know…indifferent to the problem…irresponsible….lazy? She just doesn’t care. She has a plan in her head somewhere and that plan doesn’t include doing well in school and staying out of trouble.
My kids aren’t horrible kids… they have good hearts. But I can’t seem to get them to go with the program. I know as parents we teach them what we can and then pray it sticks and that our children will make the right choices in life. But what happens when they don’t?? What are we… the parents… supposed to do then? My teenagers at home are only 15 and 17. I want them to succeed. I feel helpless right now.
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