farmerjan
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Good for him..... there are limits.... and so many parents are helicopter parents to the Nth degree... especially mothers. And no, I was not one, I had a set of rules.... both son and I followed them. I got divorced when he was 7 and when he was with me there were certain things you did... left a note on the kitchen table where he was going to be and a phone number if it was not one of his regular places... I did the same due to crazy work hours... had a curfew according to his age... COMMON COURTESY for the other person... this was before cell phones.....NO DRINKING and DRIVING or I would "KILL HIM" after whatever happened if he got stopped by a cop.... Speeding could mean loss of license on top of him paying any/all tickets costs etc....Knew this guy, he wanted to hunt and have guns and all of that and his mother was against it so he moved out. He came home one day and she was in his living room with his guns out, yelling at him and telling him she disapproved. He asked her what the heck she was doing in his house and she said she let herself in. She'd let herself in a window. He had her trespassed and she was bawling about how can he do this to his mother. She had that control problem.
Some people...
Luckily he was too cheap to be much of a drinker and he was always the biggest, so was the designated driver because he could have one or 2 and then switch to soda, and it would not show up in his system... and drugs were not a concern,,,, again, he was too tight with his money...and he did little dating until he was in his 20's anyway....
I was lucky in many ways.