Relax Max and Chill Bill

I used to think my parents were strict. And they were, for sure. They were the strictest parents out of all my friends. All through middle school when the cool thing was the to go to the movies every friday and the ice rink every saturday, I probably went once a month. If that. I had practically no social life compared to everyone else and I always despised my parents for it. I see now that middle school days weren't a big deal obviously, and though they never let me have a Myspace or Facebook for a long time, I see they were fairly justified in their reasoning. And now I can talk to my mom like a human being, discuss adult things, and unless there's a truly good reason why I can't, I can usually do most of the social things I want. But now I see more and more friends with parents who are exactly how mine used to be. And I'm thinking, you treat your junior in high school daughter like this? Wow, that's messed up, I feel sorry for her. And honestly it's kind of annoying too when you ask someone to do something with you and they can't just because their parents said no. There is no justified reason, they just said no. But whatever everyone has there different parenting skills. Sometimes in my head I kind of gather all this info and results from the different parenting types I see and I see how it effects my friends and how they turn out because of it, and try to create my own parenting type for how I plan to be when I have kids. I hope I'm a good parent, sometimes I think I will be, but there are so many time that I couldn't be more frustrated with my little brother. I really just wanna slap him across the face sometimes. Actually a lot of times. But obviously I will have more patience and what not with my own kids.