Troubled Teen
My friend was telling me about her younger sister, who at the onset of high school is turning into quite the headcase. I've written about this girl before, about how her whole thing in junior high was to be included in the "popular group." She succeeded, and then recently, the popular girls dumped her, and she fell into depression. She convinced her mom that she was too depressed to go to school, so for the whole month of December, she stayed home and planted herself in front of the TV (which could well be the WORST possible thing for a depressed person to do). My friend, her older sister, is rightly concerned about her academic future, because at this rate she'll never pass her exams and keep up with her classes. And then there's this girl's psychological future, which is a whole other bag.
Her mom is too soft to discipline her, her dad tries to buy her affection with shopping sprees (to compensate for being a deadbeat dad for most of her life), she has no respect for her older sister (my friend), and she idolizes her older brother, who is an underage DUI-getting depressed pill-popping in general bad seed headcase himself - who furthermore is slightly emotionally abusive to his younger sister because he doesn't realize how much she looks up to him. No one tries to lay the smackdown, because they're all afraid of alienating her more.
This year, for New Year's Eve, she went out to dinner and then said she would spend the night at a friend's house. It didn't occur to the mom until about 11 to check out the story, which of course didn't check out. Andrea's friend had said that she was staying at someone else's house, and so on and so forth until the mom called all Andrea's friends and found that she was at this boy's party in the next town over. So she storms out of the house a little before midnight, and breaks up a party full of drunk fourteen-year-olds; and the whole family's New Year's Eve is ruined by all this chaos.
A depressed teen turning to the bottle for comfort? Sounds like a formula for alcoholism. What do you do with such a troublemaker?
Her mom is too soft to discipline her, her dad tries to buy her affection with shopping sprees (to compensate for being a deadbeat dad for most of her life), she has no respect for her older sister (my friend), and she idolizes her older brother, who is an underage DUI-getting depressed pill-popping in general bad seed headcase himself - who furthermore is slightly emotionally abusive to his younger sister because he doesn't realize how much she looks up to him. No one tries to lay the smackdown, because they're all afraid of alienating her more.
This year, for New Year's Eve, she went out to dinner and then said she would spend the night at a friend's house. It didn't occur to the mom until about 11 to check out the story, which of course didn't check out. Andrea's friend had said that she was staying at someone else's house, and so on and so forth until the mom called all Andrea's friends and found that she was at this boy's party in the next town over. So she storms out of the house a little before midnight, and breaks up a party full of drunk fourteen-year-olds; and the whole family's New Year's Eve is ruined by all this chaos.
A depressed teen turning to the bottle for comfort? Sounds like a formula for alcoholism. What do you do with such a troublemaker?
posted by Rex at 9:34 PM
2 Comments:
Wow, that's really bad. I think she's lost now. Maybe boot camp?
I forgot to mention the best part. For Christmas, all the other siblings chipped in to get their mom a present. Andrea had some Christmas money, so she took it out shopping and got a bunch of stuff, including a new Coach purse. When she got home, Kristine asked if she wanted to contribute to their mom's gift, and this made Andrea totally blow up about not having any money and not having a job, so she shouldn't be expected to pay for things.
Whew! That is a problem child.
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