Even if she wasn't a drama queen, that

• You may not have been watching American Idol, but - Hooked, totally
  • I HAVE A FAVOR TO ASK AI PEOPLE - sbMT
  • A Idol - Nature
  • What about Tatiana? sm - EmmaT
    • They keep her because she is so... - Kendra
    • Even if she wasn't a drama queen, that - laugh gets to me big time. (NM)
    • Hot mess is what I think. nm - Hooked, totally
    • She could definitely use a Xanax - daiseymae
      • I am hopeful she won't stay long either - Hooked, totally
        • She may be gone tonight - LinK
          • Now I know who Rose is - Hooked, totally
        • Yes, the Indian guy is good. - OldMT
          • Danny and his friend both really hot - Hooked, totally
      • Don't like Tatiana, she needs to go. nm - OldMT
  • AI this year - LinK
  • I agree, best ever this time...was so sad to see Rose go home though nm - meMT
    • I felt the same way about Rose. - me2

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I don't have a lot of money right now and my daughter knows this.  I did look into a traditional moving company and it was over $1200.  I'm renting a truck and would gladly provide lunch for all.  I've helped my daughter many times, even since she has been grown, financially and otherwise; in fact, helped her get into her house.  I suppose I did hope she would remember these things, explain to "Bruce", and they would be sympathic to my predicament.  Thanks for your reply.

I have been in medical transcription for 8 years and since our hospital sent us all home I have taken up writing in my spare time. I would like to invite everyone on the board to check out my website for my small publishing company and read about my romance novel.

First with the phone calls, I would use an answering machine and screen all calls, or maybe unplug the phone while you are working.  Can you get one of those cheap pay as you go cell phones, give your dad the number and then change your home # and don't tell him?

It sounds, at least to me, that your dad needs immediate psych help.  Is there a Baker Act or something where you live?  Does your mom have a restraining order on him (it sounds to me like she needs one).  There's only so much you can do for someone that doesn't seem to want help.  While I loved my parents immensely, I would have sent them to an MD or shrink if one of them started doing this.  Sometimes there's a role reversal in parents and adult kids where the parents are acting more like kids which leaves the child to be the adult and make them do stuff they really don't want to.  I've had that happen to me while my parents were sick, and while it wasn't any fun I knew I had to force them to do things (take meds and see MDs) they didn't want to.

Good luck.  Hopefully someone else might have a better solution

I posted before about how my son's ex-girlfriend was sabotaging him receiving an invitation to Sadie Hawkins dance.  The girl that "changed her mind" can't find another date because it is too close to time. 

So she follows my son all over the place, but she has to be loyal to the "Queen Bee" and doesn't seem to have the courage to ask him again.

Four years is a long time to be incarcerated in high school.  Maybe he will get an A in chemistry instead!

She's only a teenager once, and there's only one spring drama performance?  How many weeks could this last?  I wouldn't sweat it too much.  We love to go "up-to-bat" for our children, but we need to pick our battles.  If she is a teenager, you do not want to give the impression that you are not supportive.  We found the same thing happening with baseball practice for our son last year, so we just planned on the "not knowing".  He'll only play baseball for a few months, and then it's over :(  Hang in there, she'll be driving herself soon...  YIKES!  I don't even want to think about that.  Be glad she's involved in drama and not "other things".....  if you know what I mean...   Good luck on the performance. I'm sure she'll make you proud! 

We/they all referred to my mother as *Mommie Dearest* - she was Joan Crawford's CLONE and her mom (my maternal grandmother) was Bette Davis' CLONE.  Too much pressure put on little kids to be totally organized by the age of 10.....IT'S IMPOSSIBLE and not fair to the children - because this results in stifling your children's CREATIVE ABILITIES.

Happy for you that you are facing all that you are facing to not repeat (negative) history!!  Have a GREAT, GREAT weekend!!!

The post about "stole my son, you brazen hussy" brings back memories.  My mother-in-law actually kicked me following the rehearsal dinner and said, "Well, you finally got him!"  I checked later and my stocking was torn and there was blood on my ankle.  She had made this seem like a joke, but she meant it; I knew there was a friend's daughter she had wanted to introduce her son to after he left the military--I spoiled those plans.  Left my home (small town) to live in his hometown (Atlanta) and never felt accepted by his mother or any of his friends, who treated me like a backwoods hick.

It's no wonder we divorced about 10 years later.  My daughter is lucky that her in-laws were so accepting of her.

i feel like to each their own.  my kids didn't sleep with me when they were babies.  they slept in their own rooms and actually they fell asleep on their own very well.  my second boy would sometimes spit up big time while sleeping, so i kept him close to me anytime he was sleeping, in his bassinet (gosh don't know how to spell that!!).

i see my hubby and his family and although they all love each other, there is no communication whatsoever in his family and they aren't near as close as i am with my mom and dad.  i want my boys to grow up knowing they can talk to me about anything and that i'm always here for them.  my hubby is the type that keeps EVERYTHING to himself.  i'm not like that!  i blame his family for not having open communication, and my hubby suffers from anxiety to a certain extent.  his family situation is a whole nother chapter!

thanks for your input!      

My husband accompanied my son to practice.  The then assistant coach was trying to make conversation with him.  He asked my husband where he worked -- typical question, like how's the weather?  My husband answered honestly and left it at that.  This guy went on to tell his life story.  My husband did not repeat this to anyone other than his supervisor when he realized it was a breach of ethics for him to be around him. 

Again, my husband approached the head coach about the situation and without going into detail about the man's criminal history, asked for a transfer.  The head coach referred him to the league president, who asked why he needed a transfer.  He then told the league president, who does the background checks and would have found out anyway, why he needed the transfer.  The league president then informed the head coach, who who told the assistant coach why he decided to remove him from his coaching staff.  We certainly did not discuss this with any other parents on the team.  We had also requested that the head coach not discuss with the assistant coach until and if it would be necessary.  We were hoping to avoid the situation entirely by transferring our child, not the ex-convict's kid.  Silly us to think we were doing the right thing?

The last thing we wanted was for any of this to come to light.  We tried to handle it discretely.  I'm guessing you're also one of those people who likes to make the people trying to do the right thing out to be the bad guy.