Quote Originally Posted by phillykid420
I got busted once when I was a kid (bout 16 or maybe 17), I had to fess up cause they were gonna have me go to the hospital for a drug test, my dad was a doctor there so I didn't want to embarrass him in front of people he works with. Honestly, I wasn't even pissed off at them, I was really depressed, they didn't really yell at me I could just tell they were so disappointed and they were so worried and hurt by it. I pretty much stopped after that till I went to college.

I used to think I hated my folks. They were pretty hard on me. If I ever came home without straight A's I'd be punished, not grounded punished, but hit. I once got a 87 on my physics regents and they made me retake it over the summer with the retards who failed the test. I got a 1500 on my SAT's, my mom wanted me to retake it cause I didn't do as well as I could've on the math portion (which is true, but still, 1500 is pretty damn good). They wouldn't let me hang out with my friends too much, and most weekends I was at home not out chilling. In retrospect, I appreciate all of their punishments, all the times they bitched at me and all the times I got hit. I thanked my mom a few monthes ago for all the times they were tough on me, and I think it made her all teary eyed.

I visited my old home town a while back, some of my former classmates are pumping gas and stocking shelves while I'm working in a molecular biology lab doing research. I have an open future ahead, I can probably go to a very good graduate school, or I could go to law school or med school.

I wish my dad could still yell at me although it was usually my mom yelling, my dad was working a lot of hours. But he can't yell at me, he can't punish me, he passed away a few years ago.

You all can bitch about your folks but there are so many kids out there who's pops or mom bounced on them, there's a bunch of kids sitting in orphanages wishing they could switch places. Your lives are not enriched by losing the people who care about you so much that they are willing to make you hate them. It'd be easier for them to just say fuck it, do what you want. They don't want to have to yell at you or ground you, it makes their lives tougher. They gain absolutely nothing by punishing you, or yelling at you but they still do it. They could put you up for adoption tomorrow and be done with you, they would have one less mouth to feed, one less person to cloth, they would save a bundle of money and could retire earlier or go on a long vacation to Hawaii.

When I was younger I thought, I'd never treat my kids the way my parents treated me. Now that i'm older I understand why they did the things they did. I'm truly fortunate to have parents who were so tough on me and who loved me enough to punish me. If more parents were like them there wouldn't be so many screwed up people in the world.

very well put