Freedom Ride

16 yo daughter who doesn’t have sex, drug or drink, makes good grades, works part time, wants me to not have curfew, to let her stay over with boyfriend, go on out of town, overnight trips. I say no. She can’t understand why. Curfew midnight, weekends, 9pm school nights. I give her a late model car to drive, a cell phone, room of her own, foods of choice,college future, other extras. She still isn’t happy. Am I not understanding something, or her, or both?

Basically she is behaving like a teenager, just like a 2 yr old has their idiosyncrasies, teenagers have theirs. They want the adult stuff but in reality, understand NONE of it.
Unfortunately, the hormones are way dominant at that age and all you can do is try to cope & hope you survive the roller coaster ride.
FYI – stick by those curfew and no overniters rules ! At least if she ignores them and get into ugly circumstance, she will not be able to blame you with the "well, you said I could do it". You are totally right and need to stand by the basic safety rules, just like you would not let a 2 yr old stick objects in an electrical outlet ‘because they want to’ nor did you need to make the 2 yr old understand electricity.
THEY ONLY NEED TO KNOW THE RULES, you can explain it once but do not waste your time defending it after that.
good luck, and all our prayers

my freedom’s quite good…
but i dont get treated any better than my 11 year old bro..if I have somthing, he’s gotta have it, if i stay up late, he’s gotta stay up late…it gets annoying…

"Isn’t this America, home of freedom of speech? Or have the liberals trampled that right?"

Darn right they have!

What about it?!?

To be honest, I don’t really understand what it is you’re trying to ask!

> My status at home: I’m the fourth of nine kids; the second oldest of five girls.

> Freedom at home: Well, our backyard covers 1,890,000 acres; I reckon that constitutes a fair bit of freedom for any kid, *grin*

> Status at school? I don’t go to school.

> Freedom at school? I don’t go to school.

Neither I nor any of my siblings ‘do’ school; that’s pretty much what ‘home schooling’ (the title of this board) means!

This is not China or Cuba or the middle east. This is the land of the free. The land where one can say "I love my God". Can they destroy a man in the USA for loving God?

Would you be saying the same thing if he’d been wearing a "I love Satan" badge?

He wasn’t fired for "loving God"–he was fired for defying the dress code and then being a jerk about it.

there’s this company that advertise in craiglist for lease to own program. I just want to know if anyone have heard or deal with this company.

No never heard of them be careful check them out first

why do non-whites offer so little resistance to strong armed thugs like Chvaz?
Why do citizens of places like venezuela, vote for thugs like Chevaz knowing they will lose their freedom in exchange for making him dictator for life?

because its democracy and sometimes people will get elected whom you do not like, deal with it. this is the beauty of democracy you get the will of the people

I think i found one and would like your input.
I found this one to be very interesting so i went with it.www.explorefreedom.com/betterhealth
This is giving me the money and time im looking for. Thank you all for your answers
I found this one to be very interesting so i went with it.http://www.explorefreedom.com/betterhealth
This is giving me the money and time im looking for. Thank you all for your answers

Personally I would look into something that is higher in demand. Something people use every day and pay for anyway. Something that has a billing cylce in which everytime people pay their bills, you make a precentage over and over again. So in my opinion the best ideal home based business would be in the telecommunications industry. Everyone is always going to use either a land line, Internet, digital or video or cellular phone services. When money is tight, people will hang onto their phones but find other things cheaper to make their ends meet. People do not know what to do without their cell phones or Internet connections. So in my opinion something like this would be more beneficial financially. But hey, what you found, may suite you just fine. It’s not about what we think anyway, it’s what you feel is right for you and what you can do with your own business.

What do you reckon, freedom fighter or terrorist?
You didn’t answer the question, but fair does.

I disagree with your premise. I cannot define anyone as a "freedom fighter" who is opposed to freedom.

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Okay…since I have seemed to piss a lot of people off. I was not asking to start an argument. I simply asked because I was watching television and heard someone refer to some kind of drug that is concidered the "New Agent Orange". I AM Prior Service and am very proud to be. My husband just got back from Iraq, I was just wondering if what I heard was true. So calm down!

I do not think there was a release of a drug that caused servicemen to "snap" when they came home. What happened is that they were not prepared to be re-introduced to civilian life so quickly. The military job is to take an ordinary man and to transform him into an extension of the service to do what the military needs to be done. The service men do not have the same amount of training to de-military them. They need more counseling and support groups to readjust.