Deployment

[m-and-m]

my step dad is in the army- national gaurd. his unit is going to Iraq but we don't know when.
i already have tons of stress on me at home between school, homework, friends( more so the lack of), whatching my 1 year old brother all the time, my diabetes, and a ton of other stuff i am going to go insane when he leaves. i have so much already expected of me now, and i'll have more when he leaves. i'm afraid mom is going to make me watch my brother( the evil very oppinionated beast baby) even more. she already makes me watch him all the time and half the time when i do i have tons of homework, haven't done my chores, and my dog needs to pee, and mom just sits on her butt and watches t.v . then my stepdad gets home and yells at me because my chores aren't done, then yells at me because my dog needs to go out, and then more because my homework isn't done( and by my teacher the next day). mom doesn't defend me, then my step dad sits on his butt with mom and i am still watching my brother and trying to get every thing done I AM ONLY ALMOST 13. i should not have to run the house. i am just so stressed right now. by the time i'm 20 i'll be in an insane asylum.

wow i think this is the most i've ever typed

 

[meeshheartsdisney217]

 

[m-and-m]

thanks

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

 

[!!PonyBoy!!]

You are totally right about you running the house

 

[big_ol_lineman]

dude i know exactily what u mean. i am a military brat also and ( eventhough it isn't Iraq) my dad just got back from Korea and felling pressured to look after your family,school and just about everything else in the world is about to just....ur going to need to feel like u need take care of everything if u haven't started already doing so. i felt the same way when my dad left and it was crappy. but again i know what u feel but my dad is Air force and he went korea. besides that i know what u are feeling.

 

[m-and-m]

thanks everyone

 

[big_ol_lineman]

yea np we military brats have to stick when things like this come up

 

[m-and-m]

you people are great

 

[seashoreCM]

Do you have any chance of sitting down for a heart to heart talk with Stepdad to discuss your day to day routines?

Would you be able to have enough of those talks to eventually include the topic "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"?

If it is bad as you make is sound, maybe your school's guidance counselor may also be able to give some ideas.

Where children really have to help run the household, one thing to explore is dropping some courses in school, fully intending to make them up in a later year.

I do not condone teachers' yelling. This would be one for the guidance counselor meeting too.

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[kjkcool]

My cousin,one that's like my older brother(cause I'm an only child),is going to Iraq soon,I'm scared to death for him.
You've got a lot to deal with,I'm glad I don't have your schedual!
Hang in there!

 

[m-and-m]

once again thanks

 

[flowergirlbecca]

I think it is great you can be open about this, but we can't actually be there for you. Maybe you should talk to someone like your school's guidance counselor. I do not think you should have to run the house at 13, seems awfully young.

 

[BAMBIFOREVER]

we will be hear for u