here are the numbers: in five years, my family went from 3 to 8 people.
i have 3 mothers, 1 father, and 3 little bros. i am not a polygamist, btw.
the stereotype i hate most about adolescents is that we're totally disconnected from our family. were supposed to loathe out little siblings, our parents aren't supposed to understand us, and our family in general is supposed to be bad and evil in everything. and we are supposed to only want to spend time with our friends. i think that its a time when you should spend MORE time with your family, because you develop more of and attention span than when you were little, and you can have conversations and do stuff. im not saying im the perfect daughter, but i try.
oh, another thing i really hate: i hate it when grownups say to kids "dont talk back to me." thats so stupid, because if kids didnt talk back to you, how would you know what they thought?
i dont think you should follow a model (mommy, daddy, two kids, big kid picks on little kid, big kid alienated, little kid sweet but annoying, mommy cooks, daddy works, brother plays sports, etc.) for how a family should fit. just see what you want to do. that's what i think.
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yay 4 u! ttly agree~!
I completly hate it when people say "don't talk back to me," but you've hit it on the dot. They DON'T want to hear what we have to say because they want to be the final word, they don't want to be challenged.
I also completely agree. with everything.
hmm, well idk. i think people are very quick to judge families that don't fit in to that ideal of mom, dad, two kids. and that does suck, because most families aren't like that at all. but then people who come from varied families tend to judge those ideal types of families too. which isn't really fair. so it goes both ways, i guess. just a thought ;)
exactly! but also that since we are not "normal" families, we understand how it can alienate us, or have us judged, so we might be more reserved in our prejudice of them.
wow. i dont think i have ever had this many comments on a post before.
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