First of all, it isn’t the holiday so much as having to get together with my family for dinner. My brother called my disrespectful for not making my daughter take out her piercing from her nose before coming to my Mom’s house. Well, it hasn’t healed yet and My Mom already knew about it so them’s the breaks, ya know? My sister, whom I hate with a passion, called my godless and whatnot for first, letting my daughter get her nose pierced and for also allowing my kids to read Harry Potter books.
:rolleyes:
My brother-in-law dragged me outside after all this shit and says, so what were you thinking when you let her get her nose pierced? Well, let’s see now…I thought…hmm, she wants to get her nose pierced. What the fuck do you THINK I was thinking you asshole! My Grandmother, over 90, on oxygen and still a smoker, actually told me that she thought the ring looked nice.
Yay Grandma!
My Mom didn’t say squat about one damn thing. It really galls the fuck out of me why my brother and sister think it’s okay for them to tell me how to raise my kids. What the fuck is up with that? If it wasn’t for the respect that I feel for my Mother and Grandmother, I would have told them to bite my big fat ass and walked the fuck out. Instead, I tokk it, vented to my wife, ate dinner and had her drive me home (my back is out and I’ve had to use a cane for the past few days). Like I need to go to Mom’s for a nice Thanksgiving dinner and get shit on.
I could see why some people might have a problem with a six year old with a nose ring (I dont) but if your daughter is older than, say, 12…I’d have told him to fuck off.
My daughter is 14 and if you do a search in MPSIMS, you’ll find the thread I started about it. My brother isn’t usually like that but today he just blew me away. What the fuck do you mean that {b]I’m{/b] not respectful? Am I the one living in my Mom’s house and smoking pot all the time? No.
I personally don’t care if anyone smokes pot but damn! Let’s at least try to not be such a fucking hypocrite and call me disrespectful.
Oh yeah…I guess, according to my sister anyway, I’m a shitty parent also because I not only let my 14 year old daughter dye her hair but also her 16 year old sister. And I let my 13 year old son spike his hair.
Yeah. That’s me alright. Mr. Shitty himself because I allow my children some freeodm of expression.
Well, thank goodness, Xploder, I’m glad I’m not the only evil one out there.
Lemme see, my stepdaughter got told at 12 “Don’t care what color you Kool-aid it, but I’m not paying for hair dyes”, got permission for her belly ring when she was 15 (she didn’t ask before that…), my oldest son (10) knows the words to “Plastic Jesus”, “Casey Jones”, and a lot of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The youngest son helps out the older on the choruses. Oh yes, and they have had spiked hair for the last two years because they like it.
MAN! I must have missed that thread completely. Sorry about your probs guy. Being manic/depressive myself, I just can not comprehend why someone would consistenly and repeatedly refuse treatment even AFTER being committed numerous times. I hope your day goes better though.
FWIW, Xploder’s daughter (the one with the nose ring) babysits my kids. And her nose ring is one of the very few I’ve seen that actually looks good. I’m glad of that, too, because she paid for it with her bbysitting money.
Bill, I certainly hope your day gets better. Tell the wife & kids we said hi & have a great holiday!
[sub]I’d put a smiley in here, ut I know how much you hate them and you’re having a bad enough day already…[/sub]
I don’t have kids (as some of you may have noticed :D), but I have always felt that if the worst things your kids are doing is piercing themselves (in a hygienic fashion) and dying their hair, you’re doing just fine. Maybe you should mention that to your sanctimonious siblings. Or, like other people have said, just tell them to fuck off. They’re certainly asking for it.
personally, i wouldn’t let my kids do some of the stuff that you let your kids do.
but that’s my right, they’re my kids. amazingly enough, your kids are yours, and you can let them do whatever you feel is acceptable, within the limits of the law.
Persephone
Thanks. Did so and the family says the same to you.
(I don’t hate smilies…just really big grins in every post)
kniz
Huh?
Featherlou
I have to agree with you. The worst thing my kids have done is get semi-crappy grades in school sometimes.
abuse angel
I have to agree with you, unfortunately, my sister is a bible-thumping hypocrite who believes that anything outside of her beliefs is ungodly. I still can’t understand my brother’s reaction. Then again, when his daughters turned sixteen, he went ballistic because they started using makeup. :rolleyes: Never mind the fact that he had hair down to his ass and smoked pot along with his then-wife every day.
FisherQueen
She’d probably also like you. Right now, she’s bitching up a storm because she only has the first four books and the next three aren’t out yet. She also refuses to go to the movie because she doesn’t want to be disappointed.
On a further note, I went to the in-laws for dinner and what-not today. Amazingly enough, I had a really good time with absolutely no hassles whatsoever. I think I’m gonna disown my own family and adopt my in-laws instead.
