Reply #16: Toss of a coin [View All]

[sandnsea]

My daughter was always planning trips in high school. Not one panned out. So I just started discussing them and hemmed and hawed alot. All the pros and cons. My concerns. Had she thought through all the contingencies. What about this and that. What do the other girls' parents really think. I never actually had to come down to saying yes or no because the trips always got cancelled a month or so before they were supposed to go anyway. Just an idea.

But I also never let what I did as a teen-ager influence my decision. I just said that's why I now know it was a stupid decision and I can't approve of her making stupid decisions, even if it's one I've already made. I usually try to find a better word than stupid. Unhealthy, unwise, dangerous, something. Never got alot of argument there.

On the other hand, my oldest is 26 and I've also learned things usually turn out okay.