DrYouth wrote:GrumpyCatFace wrote:Now, if I ever found out that my kid was doing that....
Count on it...
Both my wife and I had reckless periods...
Not to mention the gig I do... I know about how crazy shit can get.
And I also know it kind of has to get crazy... that's the only way we can really know our limits....
But the problem in my family is that my parents pretended everything was fine when it clearly wasn't... and that didn't help me out.
They should have busted my balls more than they did...
Liberals suck at holding their kids accountable.
I won't make that mistake with my kids!
My parents were WAYYYYYYY too liberal, I could have turned into a nightmare, I grew up in the house where everyone would go after school to party because I had the "cool" parents. Learned how to roll a joint from dad, etc.
Everyone looked the other way at my increasingly rebellious behavior and crazy behavior because I was a top student, mediocre athlete, had nice girlfriends, and always articulate.
I now see this as representative in hindsight: senior year of high school, I was in an unleveled drama class, the teacher had no plan, the first assignment was to write a play only with caveman grunts, I repeatedly declared in class that the teacher had no plan, guaranteed we would learn nothing, called the teacher a hack just cruising by until summer, encouraged the level 3 students to ignore him, etc., which they did.
What did the teacher do? Got a special waiver from the principal so that I could satisfy the needed credit by editing the school newspaper on my own instead of taking his class.
In sum, I needed the
hammer.
I would get it soon enough, in massive massive doses.
