Parents, believe it or not, actually know things based on their life experience. Sometimes we go by instinct, sometimes common sense, but we try not to give bad advice.
Now, it’s just up to today’s know-it-all kids to listen.
New York teen Brittanee Drexel had “her mind set” on spring break in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Her mom didn’t want her to go, but the strong-willed 17-year-old from Rochester, N.Y., went anyway. Now she’s missing, and her mom fears the worst.
Brittanee’s mom, Dawn Drexel, said her daughter made it to her South Carolina hotel and kept in touch until last Saturday night. That’s when the messages suddenly stopped and the high school junior vanished, seemingly without a trace, she said.
While we’re hoping for the best, think about where young Brittanee would be now if she had listened to her mother….
Home.
Another case of “Missing White Woman Syndrome”. Let’s hope her mother is not as neurotic and narcissistic as Beth Twitty (Natalee Hollaway’s mother.)
I, too, even as a teen, listened to my parents and *started* with the assumption that they always had my best interests at heart and knew more about how the world works than I did.
Ceertainly, we had conflicts. For instance, I once hit my father in the head with a 2×4 (and I’d do it again in the same circumstance), but such was totally contrary to the norm. And, having once been in a situation similar to his, I now understand that the primary reason my father was being so irrational was because he was not getting enough sleep — he was working himslef to death in trying to meet his obligations to his family.
I think the problem started (no sooner than) seventeen years ago … when Dawn Drexel named her baby “Brittanee.”
Sitting here thinking about what would have happened if me or one of my peers would have pulled a stunt like that and then called home and told Pop where we were…
We’d be missing from Spring Break, alright.
And there would likely be a VERY well-manicured lawn back home, all summer long, perhaps the house would have a new coat of paint, too, before Dad got finished with the poor miscreant.
Yes, Pop would have driven nonstop to SC just to get his hands on my narrow butt.
And I was the same for my kids.
It is a good feeling to know your limitations.
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I’m pretty sure when I was a teenager I was pretty good about listening to my parents under the reasoning that were a good bit smarter than me. You know experience with age and all. It’s been only 8 years or so since I got out of high school and I think that still holds up well.
Nick, you probably already know (as you are a little older now) most, but not all teens have an invincibility attitude about life. They think nothing is ever going to happen to them. Unfortunately this attitude causes carelessness & gets many of them in grave danger. Females especially need to be extremely aware of what is going on around them. Hundreds of girls disappear every day around the world & are never heard from again. I hope in this case she is found safe & sound. I have been fortunate as a Firefighter in that every search I have been on ended on a happy note.
Nick, you probably already know (as you are a little older now) most, but not all teens have an invincibility attitude about life. They think nothing is ever going to happen to them. Unfortunately this attitude causes carelessness
correction there – “I certainly hope she comes home as well ALIVE”
I certainly hope she comes home as well.
As far as parental advice goes, even though sometimes it may take me a time & a half to understand what my mom is getting at, I’ve never turned down her advice. hell, she’s always the first person I GO TO for advice