"Why can't I have anything in this house!"
"Why should I give you what you want when you don't give me what I want?"
Uhm? You're his parents? You should provide unconditional love and care?
"I just want to use this texting app! I don't want a number or a new phone or anything. I just wann download this texting app."
"Why? Huh? Who do you wanna text?"
"My cousins. My friends. Why can't I have it"
"Huh. Your cousins and your friends huh?"
"Why are you mocking me? I'm just asking you why can't I have it."
"You already have too much."
"What do I have?!"
"We already let you have a wifi connection. And it's way to much."
Exolanation: A wifi connection that is only used according to an allowed schedule by the mother and only in specific apps using her accounts.
OH my! Of cours he has too much!
"But you still didn't tell me why I can't use this app. Or any app. Why do I have to wait till I'm fifteen?"
"Because you're still twelve. It's too early for you."
"But why?"
"Because it's early!"
"But why?!"
"Because I said so."
Sure that will convince him.
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I'm not writing this scenario between my younger brother and my parents for the sake of showing it. I'm writing it, because that's what I had to go through all my life: unanswered questions, no explanations, no arguments, just blunt answers or twisted lies.
Was it too hard to have the same questions answered for me? Was it too hard to explain to me at the level of understanding of a kid why can't u have certain things? Without even lying you could explain everything to a kid, but just on his level. It's not fair for anyone not to receive an explanation for any questions asked, especially if it's a kid, and everyone knows how much questions kids ask. How are you expecting your children to grow in a questioning environment? How are we expect to understand the world if our parents don't explain it to us? If they leave us wondering? Just how? The people we rely on as children not trusting us enough to give us answers?
And still after everything, you still think that avoiding the questions is the answer to everything.
I mean... Was it too hard to tell us that we couldn't access the internet because legally we weren't allowed to have any app if we weren't 13? Was this a lie? That if we were under 18, we could use apps but under the supervision of parents? Was it too hard to tell us that they are some dangerous things online that they are afraid we could fall upon on? Was it too hard to explain to us that to use the internet we have to be responsible? That you trust us with it if we could show you how to be responsible? Was that too hard to ask for?
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Midnight thoughts
PoesíaThe title says it all. What anyone would think of, late at night, gathered in here. Because why not. (I promise you the chapters get better as you go, I'm continuously writing more and more chapters and I'll be more than glad to see if any of you ca...
