In the chapter of Candy, by Kevin Brooks, that I read today, Joe is dealing with some of the consequences of his day at the zoo with Candy. He comes home to fuming father, because he was late home, and his sister reported to the father what she thought he was doing. Gina told her dad that he had something important that the Katies (his band) and him had to work on. During the lecture that Joe's dad was giving him, Joe starts to get really emotional, as a kid normally does when they get yelled at. For the blog entry today I decided to pick out a quote from this chapter and reflect on it and connect to it.
"I looked at him, wanting to hate him but knowing I couldn't. He was my dad. Whatever I felt about him, I couldn't hate him. I oculd hate his stupid reasoning, though, the way he treated me like a kid but expected me to behave like an adult. Why can't you make up your mind, Dad? I wanted to say. Either threat me like a kid or treat me like and adult, but don't keep treating me like something in between."
This is exactly what I feel a lot of kids our age have to deal with. I mean it's crazy to expect a person to deal with being treated like a child and act like an adult. I feel that kids should be guided and helped through their adolesence, but it's completely unreasonable to be controled. And it's completely unreasonable to be babyed and then act like and adult.
When I read this, I stopped to reread, because a lot of us kids don't know exactly what it is that we don't like about the way our parents treat us, and this stuck a needle right on the problem.
I also realize that when kids say that they hate their parents, they don't really hate them, well in most cases at least, because what they really hate is the attitude their parent has towards them, or even the attitude that their parents have in general. It takes a lot for a person to truly HATE their parents.
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