Mom and Dad...I'm Sorry

[crpntr1]

@ejames..that's already started

 

[gwtwdbss]

Especially when they need money!!

My Grandad would give me a dollar here and a dollar there when I was little. I wish I would have saved a few of those dollars from him. Grown kids needing a dollar to get their car fixed when they are eating out every night is a different story.
I have one adult daughter in the service, Army National Guard, she is a good kid, never asks me for anything, maybe she is smart. The others ask and ask until I had to finally say no. Now they barely call me on the road or speak to me at all.
"oh daddy daddy I love you" only works when you have your wallet open. I have all girls so its hard to say "man up" but I am doing the best I can.

 

[gwtwdbss]

uncle Buck is in my top 20, and maybe 10, greatest movies of all time.

I love his step down plan for quitting smoking. Do you remember how it goes?

 

[puffy]

My son is more educated than me,but I've been around longer and learned more from experience.We help each other a lot we're great friends now.He was a teenager once though.We had some moments.

 

[nsfisher]

Ya too true. I think I have said on here that there is nothing more miserable than a teen. It is hard to believe that at the teen age, we knew everything there was to know about the entire world. Glad we outgrew it, and so will they.

 

[gwtwdbss]

+1000000 nsfisher
I am praying my ass off for you. Give me good news.

 

[bigmike]

Just like your parents said, " I can't wait until you have your own kids".

 

[cigrmaster]

My 22 year old son freely admits that I do know what I am talking about some of the time. My 17 year old son thinks he knows it all, but he still does what I tell him. My 18 year old daughter never gives me any headaches, and my ten year old daughter is still daddy's little girl. So far so good.

 

[lordnoble]

Profpar, somehow I completely missed your post... Anyway, I only remember it because a few years ago I saw Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain. It was as hilarious as it was amazing at how well Holbrook captured the "meaning" of Twain's words and brought them to life. As it stands, my post wasn't the absolute correct quote so as to fix it...
Mark Twain once said:
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”
-Jason

 

[crpntr1]

@cigrmaster you are blessed. My kids are great, don't missunderstand, just standard teenagers. All weekend my new neighbors have invited themselves here with there two hellions I mean children...I remember why I tolerate the teenagers I have now.

 

[jchaplick]

Im 20 now, its amazing how much my parents learned since I was 14, I cant believe it!

 

[guitarguy86]

Me and my dad aren't on the best of terms, but my mom and I get along well. Most of the parental chaos started when I was about ten. I was very rebellious from then, up until about 20. I have a book that I should dig out of storage and read. It's titled something about getting along with your parents.

 

[yuri66]

Chris, I feel your pain as many others here do. I once called my Dad to ask advice seeing as he raised me and I know I was a pain in the ass. My Dad laugher and all he said was "Grandkids are a Parents' revenge" and hung up. I looked at the phone for about 3 minutes until I realized what he was inferring. So payback is a bitch, and I cannot wait for my oldest to bring me her kids, (once she has some and is old enough) and I will pay her back. :twisted: