My oldest daughter (15) heard a statistic on TV that stated something to the affect of, "Children that eat one meal a day with their parents at the dinner table are less likely to do drugs or alcohol."
This brought a whispered comment from her I believe she didn't even mean to verbalize, "It seems like they would be more likely to do drugs so they can forget they are stuck with their parents."
It's obviously hell to have parents that care.
The old-like children-talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own! Eugene O'Neill
Saturday, June 18. 2005
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I think this is a no win situation. My 25 yr old son, who has never been in any trouble, and a wonderful young man, told me the other day he wished we would have put down more limits. They complain at both ends of the spectrum. I have gotten to where I just say "We did the best we could."
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Linn
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2005-06-19 08:17
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