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Originally Posted by Still Nobody
How did you present the information to those girls without making it sound like you were "on their case"?
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You know, I'm not sure. Living in the Bible Belt, though, I'm sure that any lack of complete disbelief and disapproval was an improvement on their other authority figures.
I think a lot of the conversations started out, "I don't think you should be doing that, but if you're going to do it, what's important is you get the information to stay safe."
Plenty of my cadets had parental issues on top of just your average controlling parent. Divorcées who decided to turn back into teenagers rather than get over the pain and be parents, complete absence in one parent or the other, or one completely off his/her rocker.
(One parent b*tched
me out over the composition of a drill routine. That lady needed a chill pill.)
In those cases, I just became a listener, because I was living my best advice: "Just wait until you're 18, safe up money, fly low, and move out."
SorridLives, the funny thing was when I started out at this board, it was largely for entertainment, too. Or at least, other peoples' problems seemed so much bigger than mine, and I felt lucky.
But nowadays I cringe at the bad grammar (I'm a language
nutcase) and I feel bad for the ladies who just don't know, don't have anyone to talk to, or have been given information that was wrong. So, I feel compelled to write, even if it may be a total hoax.
I've got an "interesting" viewpoint on the topic of sex (as Anon's been confused by in a recent thread ^-^,) so I like to give it. I stay out of the boards where I don't know anything. I hate myself for giving anecdotal information (it's considered a logical fallacy) but I think it makes people feel better. Cold, hard information can be a little hard to swallow.
I'm always ecstatic to hear that good parents exist. I don't know firsthand what good parenting looks like, to be honest. And bad parenting is arguably the root of so many bad choices I've made or seen made.