Dear Mom & Dad, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you remember when you yelled at me last week because I forgot to clean my room? The truth is, I hadn\u2019t forgotten it. I had just found out that my best friend has no problem talking shit behind my back. I felt betrayed. I couldn\u2019t conjure the energy to even move. You called me lazy, but I didn\u2019t want my petty<\/em> problems discussed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dad, I know you are worried about my grades and I am too. But in the process of trying to \u2018fit in\u2019 among my friends, academics is taking a backseat. The thing is, I am terrified of not making enough friends. I am terrified that I will be bullied again. You don\u2019t know this, but the last time it happened, I almost didn\u2019t make it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am sorry that I lied to you about going for a sleepover with my girls. I was actually at a club, trying to forget about my boyfriend who I found flirting with that same best friend who spoke shit about me. I wish I could tell you where I was but you\u2019d freak out and worry. I wish I could tell you more about me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I often think about that vacation we took when I was 10, sometimes I think that was the only time I was truly happy. You let me bounce around in the snow until sunset and by the time we went back to the hotel room, I was shivering. You ran me a hot bath, cranked up the heat and cuddled with me till I felt warm again. Nobody makes me feel warm anymore, mom.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know you guys want me to hang out with you more often. You want me to sit and talk to you. Tell you what is going on. The truth is, I am scared that if I tell you what is truly going on, you would be disappointed in me. Between the struggle of maintaining friendships, balancing my grades and avoiding failure, I don\u2019t have much positive news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The truth is, I cry. I cry way more than I show and it doesn\u2019t help when you tell me I could be more like some other girl who is the ideal daughter or at least pretends to be. Don\u2019t you think I wish I could be better? Don\u2019t you think I wake up every day, scroll through social media and compare myself to every single person out there? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, I wouldn\u2019t really tell you all of this. My therapist says I should let it out but we don\u2019t talk about feelings, do we? All I really want is for you to tell me that you are proud of me, no matter what. But that’s just wishful thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t worry, I\u2019ll clean my room…I promise.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This goes out to all parents who struggle with \u2018difficult\u2019 teenagers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,3,19,45,44,4,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inappropriatenotions.orderstack.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}