Sometimes from adults, ESPECIALLY women, i always get rude glares and comments because i’m a teen.

like last night, around 11:30 i was walking home from a party, and i was walking downd my street. this lady was walking across the road to her other neighbor and when she got to her, she just totally turned around and stared at me.
i was just like "=)?"
and she kept staring at me and gave me the rudest look, then she kind of did the whole head shake "whatever b*tch your not worth my time" and turned around to talk to the other person.

what the hell??

and the other day i was outside of walgreens, and i was trying to fit in one of those tiny carts, and when i got in i couldn’t get out and my friend was trying to get me out etc you get the point haha
and there was a lady who walked by and she was like "OH, I BET YOUR PARENTS ARE PROUD!"
????

those are just two of the numerous similar events that have occured..

really though, what the hell is up with that?
it’s basically all of the older women who say rude remarks, give me nasty glares…
plus some women even do the whole thing when you were 12 years old, and you had low self esteem and it made you feel cool to go around and giggle and obviously talk sh*t about them right in front of the other people?
Haha, sorry for the horrible grammar by the way.
I’m reading my description and I sound like I’m on crack.
nahh, i don’t want to be rude back and stoop to their level.

and tom,
relax. we’re just having fun and trying to stay young for as long as we can. sorry your so bitter, you sound like a very unhappy person.
by the way, when we were in the shopping carts we were OUTSIDE of walgreens in the parking lot.
baby i need you bad-
well of course people would look at YOU like a retard since you’re 21 lol
and i’m 15.
and there’s quite a gap in our ages, so we probably have a different perspective of fun..

I am a 14 year old boy, who at the age of 8 found out that my father was dating some one named Kathryn. My parents broke up when I was 6 months old, and my dad had always found someone new… for a year at a time. I eventually met this woman and she did seem nice. I recall my mother being upset that I would talk about how Kathryn and I would have so much fun. We would go to restaurants for lunch during the summer, she would play XBOX original with me, we would go to carnivals, we went and did a lot of fun things. My father was always either working late, or sleeping all week, so Kathryn and I would always spend more time together on the weeks that I was at my father’s house than I did with my father. Time went by and my father told me after taking me to race go carts that Kathryn was pregnant. At first, I thought I was on the show "Hi-jinks" where the parents prank their children on hidden camera, but then I grew to accept it. I had always wanted a sibling, but not one that was 9 years younger than me. This I kept to myself. After Kathryn had the baby, I started to notice my mother and my dad’s mother talking about how they heard that Kathryn was doing combinations of prescription drugs to get high and that how she had a history of this with her last husband who had O.D.ed years before this. I didn’t think it was true, but I didn’t think that my mother and grandmother would say such things without being sure about it. A year later, after my mother dropped me off at my father’s house, I noticed something strange about Kathryn as she was preparing food for my little brother, She was having trouble mixing the cheese into the easy mac, and she was talking funny. She looked like an old woman with the shivers, knocking everything over with almost no motor skills. She was on the pills again… She later on got caught buying the more illegal drugs and went to jail for a year or two. My father married her while she was in jail because they wouldn’t let him see her. She was released early because of my little brother and good behavior. Then everything started up again. There was constant screaming, fighting, and violence, so I decided to stay at Mom’s house until they straightened it out. Kathryn stole three years of me and my father’s time that we could have spent together. In fifth grade my father finally got divorced and i found out that I had another sibling. However, due to the economy, he couldn’t afford a babysitter and stayed in the same house with her. This brings us to about a year or two before now. In seventh grade Dad moved away from her, sold the house, bought her a new one, and promised me a life away from her. The kids went to daycare every day until CPS decided that she could see her children again. Dad was paying for the day care and had a job as CEO at an insurance claims adjustment company, so they were always at school on time even if he didn’t go to work. (By the way, I have been waking my father up every day for six years to take me to school.) However, Kathryn decided that she wanted to play teacher and home school the kids instead of taking them to the already payed for school, so their perfect attendance was ruined. It was problem after problem with this lady. Now she says that her house is infested with tiny bugs and that she feels needles pierce her skin constantly. We think she’s on drugs… again, and it doesn’t help that she’s a stripper. Everyone in the family agrees, except for Dad, who is in denial over her whole drug abuse issue. So now, despite what he told me before, and despite the fact that he knows that I am uncomfortable with being near her, she has practically moved in. Every time I come over and ask him to get her to leave he usually gets her out of the house for the week a few days late, but not this week. This week the story is "I don’t know where to tell her to go," and "I don’t know when she’s leaving," She has ruined the floors, let the children run wild, run the maid out of the house, twice, and she falls passes on the floor at 6 AM and sleeps until noon. She is convinced that she has Lyme’s disease, Fibromyalgia, and nasal cancer, but all of her results come back negative and the doctors tell Dad that she is doing drugs. I believe that she is doing drugs, and I don’t think that I can ever forgive her for bringing this into my life.

I’m 11 and I want a shifter cart my parents said maby and I want a 125cc or 100cc witch one should I get I’m leaning twits 125cc and if I do get it how long will it last me

I had this dream that i was shia lebouf from "disturbia". And i was going to the movies with my parents, and someone was trying to kill me, but not if i was with my fam. So i followed them, but then they started to disappear from me. So then the killers tried to chase me and i escaped to this dollar store that was connected to it???? and i was driving on a go-cart race track throughout the store trying to get away from them??!!
so then they found me in the back of the dollar store bathroom and i woke up.

what does that dream mean?

I am interested in becoming involved in the world of paid automobile racing, and I don’t have a lot of money to spend. I know there are schools where you can get your licence for racing, and programs where you can race your car, but I want to know where I can compete, win, and have it matter in my goals of becoming a professional, without having to empty my wallet to do so. I compete in autocross events, I’m an amateur drifter (I know it’s not racing, but it’s a skill set), I have driven drag in 10 second cars, and have raced shifter carts occasionally, and can handle any motor vehicle with ease (dirfbike, jetski, atv, even backloaders and cranes) since I was about 5 years old. I know that I can do it, I just don’t know how to start competing in a matter that would accomplish something or gain me some sort of rank amongst other amateurs looking to make a career out of it, instead of competing against enthusiasts who aren’t looking to advance in the sport.

I see a lot of people who grew up racing dirtbikes and circle track cars and go karts getting the oppritunities to make a career, but they are all well funded by their well-off parents or families, and it’s a hobby at first. I am starting later in life (20) than most pro’s, but I know I can get there.

I would really appreciate any information on what I should do, how I can do it, and the best ways to do so.

Thanks in advance for your responses, I look forward to any input!

hey…well anyways i was wondering if there was anything wrong with me…like conditionally….i know this sounds weird but well, i have always felt that sometimes i just don’t fit in…and it’s bothering me…so here are some symtoms:

1. i am not aware of my surroundings, especially when i read….for example…once my family and i went grocery shopping and there was a shopping cart that i saw was blocking us from entering the parking spot…so i got out of the car and put it out of the way…then i went back to the car…and my mom was yelling at me, saying why i didn’t remove the second cart…i look back and i see another one there…and i SWEAR that i didn’t see that before!

2. I am obsessed with grammar…like i hate it when my teachers have poor grammar and spelling mistakes…once my teacher handed out a worksheet and his grammar was terrible! so i spent my time crossing out words and fixing the sentences instead of actually working on the problems…

3. I don’t laugh or smile easily…i’m not depressed i know that for sure but i’m not overly joyful either….there are very very few people that can make me laugh really hard…most of the time when i’m around friends and family i just smile…and sometimes i have to force it

4. i’m easily irritable and i don’t know why…i never used to be like this so i don’t know why i am like this now…

5. I sometimes don’t like approaching teachers and asking them for help…because i feel like i’m "bugging" them when i know that it is their job to help me…as well as other students…

6. I sometimes read certain novels so that i can enter a different, fantasy world to get away from reality, but i know the difference.

7. I can cry literally at a drop of a hat…and half of the time it’s for other people, not for me…i cry when i see others in pain, even if it is during a movie or book or something….and my parents often get mad at me when they see me cry because they think i’m being "weak."

8. I don’t really fit in with people my age…i can sometimes get along better with adults….like sometimes one of the my teachers will strive up a conversation before class starts..and i am able to talk to them but when i talk to my peers i can’t think of anything to say…then my friends start accusing me of being a "suck up" or "kissing a**"

so if you could please help me…tell me if i have some undiagnosed condition or am just being a hormonal teenager….lol thanks

no rude answers please!

I would like to go in a nice restaurant or coffee shop with the relative assurance of not being disturbed by someone’s child. One cannot truly control small children and they should be excluded from certain spaces until they are old enough to behave appropriately. Do these parents just not care enough to be considerate of other people? Also, I think childrens’ manners have become horrible in the past 15 years or so, probably as the result of the rash of selfish, entitled parents we are seeing: people allowing their kids to smear their dirty feet on chairs where someone will later sit, talk loudly or run around disturbing everyone! I hate those squeaky shoes used by parents who reproduce bit can’t be bothered to then watch their children. I am tired of seeing children standing in shoes inside of grocery carts, where we put our food, after walking on the street in the rat and pigeon crap. Being trapped in a plane with someone who doesn’t believe in stopping their kid from kicking my seat for 13 hours on a recent trip and justifying it because he is two appalled me. Has anyone else noticed that people are not teaching their children to behave public, controlling them or leaving them home where appropriate (no, one can’t go everywhere with them; having them involves responsibility) and are instead inflicting untaught children on others, any time, anywhere, and justifying their rudeness? It is part of being a parent to teach a child how we behave in public with consideration for others and it’s apparently not being taught much anymore.
From the huge amount of entitlement and defensiveness here, I can see where these children are getting their inconsideration for others. To these parents: YOU had them; it is YOUR responsibility and no one else’s to keep them polite in public and to take them only to appropriate venues for children. When you had them, surely you didn’t think your life would be the same and there would be no sacrifices. They are your sacrifices to make, not the public’s. I take it you all have been met with a lot of disapproval on public! As for the person saying i should be happy to be kicked during an entire 12 hour flight, you try it! As for the woman who doesn’t mind unsanitary shoe soles in grocery carts, you certainly have a high tolerance for dog crap and whatever else is on the sidewalk. I love well-bred children and dislike ill-mannered children; from all the defensiveness here, I take it yours are in the ill-bred category. Children can be taught: I know children with nice manners!

Well i was in florida i went to funspot awesomest place ever lol and i was having fun and because well my parents say im not responsible i was on the go carts ready to beat someone had my purse in my lap and i turned a corner and the purse flew out with the cam my 0 dollar glasses the worst part the cam not even mind and i dont want my dad to worry about paying a lot to get it fixed i will post how the cam looks and my question….

Cam Description:
Screen Smashed
scractched up
looks like lens came out
the thing to protect lens is broken one side is
flash is scratched
wont turn on
REMEBER it got ran over by go cart

Question:
Please tell me i can fix part of it by my self to turn on and dont have to buy parts that are very expense and wont cost alot of money or just give me a cheap cam fix store in Norcross,Ga please and thank you Yahoo i appreciate it!!
its a nikon coolpixL18

Ok so heres the deal…….Im a 13 year old girl (about to turn 14) and ive always wanted a Four Wheeler but my parents say im TOO young. So i started suggesting other things like Go Carts but they still say im too young. Well i started to think about a Golf Cart but i remembered that my friend has one and i dont want to copy her (Ive already got a rabbit, hamster, pool, ect. but she had it first). So i really need to know is what would be good for me that is safe for teenagers? What do you think about Electric Mopads? How much do Electric Mopads usally cost? I really need Help……
I need answers please…..Like NOW!!

I’m almost 15, and i’ve noticed for the past two years or so, adults are so condescending and rude to me. my friends have been noticing this too.

A lot of them treat me like i’m not an actual person and my opinions don’t matter. If i try to put in what i think into a subject they’ll laugh at me or just ignore me, and not because it was stupid it’s because of my age.
Why do they think they’re so much better than me because they’re older? I know my thoughts and opinions are just as good as theirs.

OHHHHH
and i’ve been getting a lot of "catiness" from a bunch of older women (:

Sometimes, i’ll just be in a store, minding my own business, and i’ll pass some older women.
they’ll do the whole thing (that nobody has done since they were insecure 12 year olds) and look at me up and down, totally talk about me and say rude remarks to my face even, and giggle, flick their hair, and just walk away.
WHAT THE HELL?
ARE THEY JEALOUS OR SOMETHING?
and no, i don’t dress like a sl u t.

also, this one time i was outside of walgreens with my friend and i got into a really small cart, but i was having a hard time fitting it because it was so small lol
so, basically me and my friends were just laughing and having a good time (:
and this lady who looked about 50 said "ohh, your parents must be proud!"
then we went into the store about 10 minutes later and saw the lady, and she kept giving us sarcastic smiles. i could tell she was imitated though, hahaha

but yeah, why do adults do this? it’s mostly women, but why? is it because they’re insecure?

I’m almost 15, and i’ve noticed for the past two years or so, adults are so condescending and rude to me. my friends have been noticing this too.

A lot of them treat me like i’m not an actual person and my opinions don’t matter. If i try to put in what i think into a subject they’ll laugh at me or just ignore me, and not because it was stupid it’s because of my age.
Why do they think they’re so much better than me because they’re older? I know my thoughts and opinions are just as good as theirs.

OHHHHH
and i’ve been getting a lot of "catiness" from a bunch of older women (:

Sometimes, i’ll just be in a store, minding my own business, and i’ll pass some older women.
they’ll do the whole thing (that nobody has done since they were insecure 12 year olds) and look at me up and down, totally talk about me and say rude remarks to my face even, and giggle, flick their hair, and just walk away.
WHAT THE HELL?
ARE THEY JEALOUS OR SOMETHING?
and no, i don’t dress like a sl u t.

also, this one time i was outside of walgreens with my friend and i got into a really small cart, but i was having a hard time fitting it because it was so small lol
so, basically me and my friends were just laughing and having a good time (:
and this lady who looked about 50 said "ohh, your parents must be proud!"
then we went into the store about 10 minutes later and saw the lady, and she kept giving us sarcastic smiles. i could tell she was imitated though, hahaha

but yeah, why do adults do this? it’s mostly women, but why? is it because they’re insecure?

yeah.
typical adults think they know everything and teens know nothing.

and i was ranting because i was explaining to you everything.
and if ALL of my friends have noticed this, then i’m not the only one.
so you’re saying all teens are obnoxious brats?
and i KNOW that i don’t know everything.

neither do you (:

but i know that my opinions are stupid or meaningless.
nooo

i don’t mean all adults are like that, i know they aren’t.

i tried to put "why do SOME adults hate teenagers so much?" as my question but it did the whole thing where it wasn’t posting, so i had to change the question around so that it would work. but i thought it would be obvious that i meant some adults.

sorry for the that, my bad haha
AMBER:

for one, you’re twisting up the way i am typing things and yes, if i did say the things the way you make it seem, that’d be immature.

but that other person was saying about how i think i know everything but i really know nothing.

and i was making about that i do know i don’t know nothing, and neither does he because nobody does.

okay?

it sounds like you really love to hate me.

by the way, you’re probably going to edit the post again saying
I DON’T REALLY HATE YOU IDIOT!
.. but i didn’t mean it literally
Okay, I think amber and bondgirl are getting confused which one i’m talking to..

to bondgirl:
if teens most are obnoxious brats because we haven’t been there done that, unlike adults, and it’s okay for adults to be rude and disrespectful, then would it be okay for me to go up to 5 year olds because i’m more mature than them and just be a jerk because i’m better than them and i feel like it? and i’m just a teensy bit insecure?

amber:
whatever, same difference. you’re already name calling, which is already immature and obnoxious.
LMAO
amber, i just said i wasn’t being serious about hating you, jesus

Ugh I am desperate to Talk Right now, I’m living at my parents I’m 20 years old. I just moved home recently to help my dad sell the house, he’s 60 and needs an extra hand. well I really am not a bad kid OR adult and I know that within my heart. That’s why i feel overwhelmed living here and I feel like I cart get anything accomplished for the goals I set for myself.this year. I mean I really can’t even get up in the morning cause I dread hearing the awful comparisons my dad will make on the morning and like. just all the nagging. he’s always been like this. but after graduating high school I felt a lot of guilt for the things I felt about him and felt like it was unjust,,, I wanted to you know.. have relationship w him. that’s why I moved bac. but now I’m the one who is getting affected… my confidence in myself has declined significantly and I can’t even get out of the bed. I really like hate existing right now lol to be dramatic. not suicidal or anything like that. I feelvlike I let myself down putting myself down by putting myself in this situation to be ridiculed by him. he’s an awful communicator. but anyway please help.. I really feel like I have no body to go to b besides G.od who is great to pray to but let’s be serious he’s not a breathing human being. I have serious potential to be who I want to be but I right now but in this house I feel like a piece of trash in a trash can and even the people at Church are extremely helpful I feel like I have No body to console in and I just feel ugh

Just s shot in the dark…about a yr ago I had this scary sensation. I went to Walmart and after getting my cart, for about 3 seconds I had NO idea how I got there and why I was there. Like I fell asleep and woke up in Walmart. I am 46, 5 foot 7 inches tall, 50 lbs overweight. Both parents have had heart attacks in their 60s. (Dad died 4 yrs ago after lung cancer.) I do not have high BP, no diabetes for me (dad did, but controlled with meds), cholesterol is about 180. I asked my Dr about it. He didn’t seem concerned. Didn’t request any testing for it. Now, a few times since, i feel "off balance", like the room is slanted and I can’t, for the life of me, right myself for a good several seconds! It’s annoying. Could this be a TIA/ Mini stroke? Anyone ever have this? This is a serious question, but cannot get any real answers from my Dr that probably thinks I am just being weird. Thanks…

In my house, my parents demand respect. It doesn’t matter how rude they are, they can still make me do whatever they want, just because I’m not a legal adult. Today, my mom pulled a sheet Ot of the closet that wasn’t folded, started yelling at me for it, and I told her I didn’t do it. She yelled at me, made me fold it, and told me she has to cart my (term for butt) around and that I’m always ungrateful. I am grateful and I do thank my parents when they do things for me. Somehow, I never get thanked or any respect. They dont expect too much, it’s just the way they ask that makes me unwilling to do what they want. My mom seems to think just because she gave birth to me, she deserves respect. Last time I checked, respect was earned not given. It also goes two ways. why can they be rude and cuss, just because they’re older. When I say shut up, I’m being a horrible example to my little sister and that’s where she learned how to say shut your nasty (term for butt) mouth (which is a phrase my dad uses daily) or where she learned a term fo feces which every last person in my house uses. Sorry about the rant guys, I just hate double standards and lack of respect. It irritated me when people yell at me and then ask me to do things. Ask nicely, it might just get you somewhere.
I love when people feel the need to point out one little typo just for their two points. What if I had a learning disability? I bet you’d wish you knew the whole story before you spoke.
Well you didn’t have I be a dick head about spelling on a question that was clearly not about spelling. I could understand if there were a lot of mistakes but there isn’t. Please go troll somewhere else

Okay, my sister went off and married this guy (after becoming pregnant) that she met at Dillons like, 5 years ago. She was 17ish. Her whole life, she messed up. She chose to. Her parents (my mom) were divorced. Everytime she didn’t get her way, she’d be like "Okay, I’m gonna go to Dad’s then!" so she’d get her way. Through her childhood AND teenage years. Now as an "adult" she has left him with me and my mom. HE IS TERRIBLE. He is rediculously smart. He knows how to do something and get away with it, just like his mom. Like, he can fake trip. Or fake laugh. Or barge into conversations. Or lie. Or act like he knows everything. He is adorable, I’ll admit, but his personality, my GOD. And hes like, 5. He will scream just so people think I hurt him. he makes me want to HURT HIM. I can’t even describe the way he acts. Normally, I love kids. I think they are soo sweet and angelic. But he isn’t. If hate wasn’t so frowned upon, I would hate him.

My mom? She is BLIND to this. My family that has seen this side of him, think he is awful. My mom is really close with her sister, and I talked to her, and she thinks my nephew is going to be a really good criminal. She wasn’t joking. They would agree to every word of this. My mom sees him as a perfect child. I don’t even know what to do anymore. Today, I went grocery shopping with him, my Mom and my friend. He would take random things, plop them in the cart, and my mom wouldn’t care. Sometimes she’d be like " no, put it back." but he’d be like "NOOOOO I WANT IT!!" and she’d be like *sigh* okay…
I hate it sooooo much.. even my friend thought it was rediculous. He gets everything he wants. Anything. I try telling my mom about my feelings, and she thinks I’m talking back. I can’t even talk to her without getting in trouble. My dad screams at me about everything.. so I can’t talk to him. One time when I did, he told me "I know, but we just have to ignore it."

I.Am.Done.Ignoring.This.
I need some serious advice..

p.s. My mom wants family counceling. THATS FUNNY, maybe if she wouldn’t be doing this, we wouldn’t have a problem. I feel like she loves him more than me. I’m told that isn’t possible, but my Lord, she acts like it….

i am about 6 week pregnant.
when i first told my guy about it, he was scared like crazy of course, and so was i.
two days later, he said he was over the initial shock and was now getting even a little excited to have a child, and that was honestly the best feeling i can ever remember having: to know that he wouldn’t back out on me, because i am against abortions, and he said he would help me take responsibility for what happened to us.
then, a couple more days later, he called me to tell me that he’d been really thinking about everything, and how we needed to think rationally about our situation.
i am 19 years old and he is 22. he has a full-time job for an hour, but i do not have a job right now because i am in college. i come from a more "wealthy" family, though, and he doesn’t. i’m not saying that my family is uber rich, because we’re not, but both of my parents are doctors. and it also doesn’t mean that his family is dirt poor, but his dad was a marine and his mom is a cop.
he lives on his own and pays for everything himself on his own income, and everything right now for me is pretty much still paid for by my parents.
anyways, i thought things were going amazingly that night he told me he was excited, but then everything changed that next time when he said we needed to speak rationally.
bottom line is we agreed to get me an abortion because of financial problems. i’m sure that his parents and my parents would help, i know they would, but we agreed that we don’t want to have to depends on them forever. we don’t want our baby to ever go without warm clothes, without toys it will want, without anything that it will need.. so we decided that the abortion would be the best thing, since i couldn’t carry a baby for nine months and then just give it away for adoption.
i was fine with the abortion thing for a few weeks, and it still logically makes sense to me, but now.. it’s just like i see babies everywhere. baby carriers, little 2 year olds, kids in shopping carts at the store, baby sections in stores, baby commercials on tv, and i hear about baby stories all the time. it’s not that i never did before, but now it’s just all standing out to me, like it’s saying that i need to have this baby and take the responsibility that i was fine with taking in the beginning.
my guy still thinks it would be the best to get an abortion, and even though he says this, i know he would still be there for me if i decided not to get an abortion. he would be there, he wouldn’t leave me hanging. but he says that an abortion would be the best thing for all three of us: me, him, and our unborn child.

the thing is, my feelings have started to change again. i was absolutely fine with the idea of getting an abortion at first, even though i was against it, because it made the most sense.. but now, it’s just i think EVERYday, hundreds of times a day about how i am going to feel afterwards. if i got an abortion, i know i would never be the same anymore. i’d pretend to have fun, and maybe i could have fun with friends and my guy like old times, but there would still be that one thing in the back of my mind haunting me forever. i wouldn’t become "unpregnant", he and i would just be the parents of a dead baby. and i don’t know how i could live with myself knowing that i took away a life that hadn’t even been given the chance to be lived. what if my baby has real potential? i don’t want to go through the rest of my life having to explain to possible future husbands about how our babies wouldn’t be my first. i don’t want to see babies in shopping carts at the store and think that could have been me, happy with a little boy or girl. i don’t want to hide something so powerful and hanging over me for the rest of my life, because i know that i would regret it and i’ve looked up so many websites on how other women have gotten over abortions, and they all say that there is major depression, regret, hurt, and that their futures are just not as happy as they could have been.

i was fine with the abortion thing at first, but now i’m not. i just don’t know how to break it to my guy, because he still thinks i’m fine with an abortion. i know he wouldn’t back out on me if i told him i was going to have the child, but i know he’d be disappointed in me for not trying to be strong and think about what might be best for the three of us.

someone please help me because i have no idea what to do.

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I want to get this mini bike for myself. My parents own a lot in a private campground where the speed limit is 5mph for cars and they are very strict about it. They are much more relaxed about golf carts, atv’s ect. I would like to have a mini bike to take with me when I go to visit so I can get around the park. I weigh 240 lbs so just want to make sure a mini bike will carry me before I spend the money on one.

Thanks!

Hey Guys!!
I want to go do something fun with my bf this weekend, but I don’t know what. I have a family of 6, and we’re barely teenagers so we can’t drive. With the family, it can’t be 2 $$ and I have to be able to convince my parents.
I was thinking something like lasertag, or go-cart driving or someting. (Both of those aren’t options due to the cost)
Please help me think of something fun and easy to do. He could also come over, but we have so many restrictions all we can basically do is watch movies, and we’ve already done that!!!
Please help, and please be APROPRIATE!!
Thanx, and have a Great Day!!
♥ S’s Girl

This is in response to another question about putting toilet seat covers down for your kids. I proudly put my son in a shopping cart cover, restaurant seat cover and I bring disinfecting wipes with me at all times. I teach him "don’t touch" when we are out in public and many other OCD-type things. I really am shocked at how many parents don’t do these things…lol. My whole family is that way. I know I go overboard a bit but I also know I am not the only one.
Let me clarify… I don’t have a problem with dirt. I have a problem with germs. I live in South Florida where people from all over the world visit year round- more types of germs.
Let me also add that I don’t care about studies of how many germs are where. It feels right to me and I do it- so why does that warrant hostile answers? It was just a simple question!
I forgot to thank all the polite answerers who explained their viewpoints nicely. THANK YOU.

I don’t thumbs down either.

I started writing down my dreams ’cause I felt like some of the stuff i dream about comes true in real life (Kind of weird i know). But after about a month of writing my dreams down i went back and read through them. I didn’t realize it but most of them are kind of weird. And i’m not talking about like being chased by a giant banana or something. Although in one i did get chased by someone in a bear custom. So if someone could explain them, please do.

1. I was on a school field trip to wal-mart. I fell into a random whole in the middle of the parking lot and some guy that didn’t go to my school but was my age helped me out. I told him as a thank you i would do something for him. So he told me to help him steal something from a store close to wal-mart. He said that the store stole it from a guy and that he was just getting it back. So finnaly i agreed to help him. We snuck into the store and got the thing and i escaped as fast as i could. The bus for the field trip had already left so my brother was their to pick me up. I got in the car but relized that the guy was still in the store so i got out. But my dog who had come with my brother followed me so i took him back to the car. My bro and the guy, who’s name is Daniel got out of the car. Daniel explained he noticed i had left and came looking for me but found my brother. Then his parents showed up and my mom showed up and they started talking and i ended up tranferring schools to his school so i could help him be theif.

2. (The next day i had this dream) I was in my new school with Daniel and another of my new best friends. They both liked me. But didn’t like each other (though in the dream i didn’t relize that Daniel liked me too.) i had gotten a weird text the same day a new guy moved to our school. Daniel sat a few rows over, my other bf sat to the right of me and the new kid sat diagonally behind me. I looked over at my bf and he smiled and winked at me. I turned away blushing but when i turned away i saw Daniel glaring at bf. I looked over at bf who was just smiling at Daniel. I heard the new guy almost laugh so i turned and looked at him, he gave me and big smile and i blushed again. I looked over at Daniel who looked over at me at the same time. We both turned away and i looked back over at him and he was smiling down at his paper. I got another weird text and told Daniel by mouthing the words. And asked to go to the bathroom so i could read it. But since i was new to the school i got lost. It took me a while to find my way back to class. (then it ended)

3. Me and my brothers were going to an amusement park. We met this girl and two other boys who were from a different world. Me and the girl got on a giant ski lift that went all over the park and it started breaking and going backwards and stuff. I freaked out cause i knew she was doing it and she wanted to destroy the world. But i couldn’t get off. (I don’t remeber the rest.) In the end she died.

4. I met a guy on vacation who turned out to be this like wanted criminal though he had never done anything wrong and was just framed. After i was seen with him i was expected to be his partner in crime and we had to go on the run. We went to this abandoned wearhouse where he introduced me to some of his crimainal friends. We stayed in the wear house for a few days, until somehow are names were cleared. The day we were leaving to go home. Some one started chasing us in a bear custome. We jumped on a golf cart and rode around the ware house being chased by a fake bear. Finnaly the bear stopped and took off his head to reveal my old best friend Dakota who had failed a grade so i haven’t seen her in like two years.

Are these normal dream or do i just have a very large imagination (which i already know i do so is that the cause of these dreams?) There are lots more but i’m tired of typing. Why do i have such dreams? Plus would the first two make a good book?

Why does Disney make such crappy movies now when they used to produce such good movies that unearthed things like racism (Pocahontas) and that everyone has a dark side (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and got people thinking?
It’s really idiotic ( Hannah Montana that is) Disney used to produce things parents and adults could enjoy as well. The Lion King taught kids how to cope with Death, and that you can’t run away from your problems, now Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus just teaches kids how to disguise a stripper pole on an ice cream cart. Disney should go back to their original greatness.
Yes Alex, look at the fire where the Gypsy woman is dancing in this video.

And they are going to finally have a African-American Disney Princess. :]

I love Pirates, and Mulan.

I’m thinking he needs a makeover. There was a few other kids there with cooler cart covers and their moms had designer diaper bags. I have been carrying around this Skip Hop diaper bag that is so last season. What do I do? Also, should I ditch the husband because I’d like to be twice the parent to him? Thanks.

Can any "real" parents help me out? Zorro? You were on a roll yesterday!

The #1 sport on the planet. And interesting that people of all income levels play it..except in the USA.
Go to any slum or high poverty area outside the US. They are all playing soccer. It’s a cheap sport – all you need is a ball and a field.
Now I am generalizing a bit but look who plays it here. Wealthy and middle class kids. You don’t see low income kids playing soccer. It’s not big in the inner city or in poor rural areas. Why not? The reasons poor people play it everywhere else – why doesn’t that apply here as well? I suppose you could argue that playing soccer here costs alot of $. If parents choose to pay for expensive "camps" etc, and to cart their kids around in those infamous "soccer mom SUVs" to tournaments all over the place. But those things aren’t really required. Good players in say, poor African and Latin American countries weren’t raised that way.
Low income people love soccer everywhere but here. Why is that?

I’m 16 years old and I turn 17 in 2 months. I dropped out of high school this last fall (i was only in 9th grade) because of social anxiety. My anxiety is still going away but I still have problems with negative thinking a little and over analyzing things way too much. This fall i’m going to go to adult ed to study and get my GED. I was thinking about getting a full time job at a grocery store pushing carts in or working stocking shelfs until I get my GED. You know, just so I can save up some money so when I turn 18, I can buy my own car or just help my parents out. They arent exactly rich and are on social security.

My problem is about getting a job is that, I worry about "how do I clock in and clock out, in winter, where do I put my jacket at working in the winter, should i really get this job, what I get bored pushing carts all day." I worry about everything possible about a job. Its all the little details too that I pay attention too! It drives me crazy!
I don’t think its OCD. I have completely no life experiences and have NEVER had a job before. I realize that people get jobs to support themselves.

After I get my GED, I plan on going to college and taking up a automotive course, probably either Automotive Technology or collision repair since I love cars and love messing around with them. I’m a very smart person, I just dropped out of school so soon and i’m so young with no experience. I worry about "if I got this job, how would I interact with other people" and "will people make fun of me being so young and working full time doing a sucky job?" all that it drives me crazy. My parents say i’m way too smart for my age and way too mature. Even people think I look 19 years old.
Basically i’m so confused. I cant even distract my mind from this. I constantly am thinking about getting a full time job. I really want a car when I turn 18. If I dont get a job soon, I’ll probably be relying on my parents to drive me around or me using their car. I worry about every little single thing! Like I said, I plan on working and saving up money and buying a car so when I turn 18 I can get my permit and also have a car. I would probably have my GED by then if I really study and put my mind to it. Then hopefully be in college before I turn 19.
How can I stop this? Is work like a big thing people make it out to be? Or once you start a job, is like it like a normal task for you and it doesnt seem important that your making money?

People always talk about working and jobs. Even at school they constantly talked about working and jobs. It seems like their hyping it up so much. I know people that work and dont even think nothing of it.

ok so i have an idea for my party…im inviting like 12 people…so it cant be like a sleepover or hotel…to much
heres my idea:

they get dropped off @ the malibu grand priz (place for mini golf, go carts etc)
then we go out to dinner (might take a limo)
then the parents pick them up from there
sound good??
plz give me other ideas! thanks!