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Jacuseget better grades
*JPexplain to her that it allows you to do what you love, and that if she lets you build it, you will get better grades and do your schoolwork before you go out to use it each day. You can also try telling her that its better than sitting inside all day and/or tell her that it would be a good thing for you to do a project like that. if that doesnt work, just get better grades and be happy when you actually are able to make it in January.
There are a ton of people with a very similar problem to you. Use the searchbar, i know there is at least one thread with tons of good ways to convince your mom. Good luck!
ChubbyBoyBuild it, make her watch you throw a lip blind two and you'll be sweet.
But seriously, tell her it will give you a goal to work towards. 2 hours of study a night before you can go out and sesh the jib. Make the jib the reward for working hard.
Grilled.SteezeHave you tried peeing in her butt?
RiccardoMasuttiAnd the award for the most nosense comment goes to...
Grilled.SteezeWas ready to go off but then I realized you're new here. Welcome.
Carinthiatell her that skiing is the only thing between you becoming a drug addict
parkplaygroundidk about anyone else but anyone who says highschool isn't hard must be taking easy classes...
parkplaygroundidk about anyone else but anyone who says highschool isn't hard must be taking easy classes...
Download-My-AppsUntil you go to university and get a real job. Then you realize that high school is the easiest time of your life. Have fun while you have time.
PapDaddyi felt the same way. wait til college. high school (AP's included) is a joke compared to your average university
also OP, theres NO FUCKING WAY you are a senior in high school.. when I was a senior I would be embarrassed as fuck to post anything about dealing with my mom? like really? you need advice from a bunch of ski kids on how to talk to your mom? you've got to be 13 or 14 years old
parkplaygroundI know about college. My mom is a professor for Seniors teaching law and business management. I have sat through many of her classes and know exactly how hard it is. I also see her with all that grading paper shit too. I am definitely not saying that shit is easy. It is hard as fuck, but to say that HS isn't hard is pretentious. If you have to deal with school, a job, sports (skiing included) personal endeavors, and other shit you have to deal with (cops, drugs, parents like in OP's case) it adds up.
Highschool itself is not the most difficult thing in the world, but it is the first time in a person's life when you have to deal with all that shit. By the time college and a real job rolls around you are used to it so it isnt as stressful.
Just my 02 cents
parkplaygroundIf you have to deal with school, a job, sports (skiing included) personal endeavors, and other shit you have to deal with (cops, drugs, parents like in OP's case) it adds up.
caucasian_chadIf your think your high school problems are stressful, at risk of sounding like a dad, just wait until you get older.
College is more difficult than high school. Once you're no longer living under your parents roof, your job will become even more important because you now have bills to pay. Skiing is still skiing when you're an adult. If you get in trouble with the cops as an adult, it actually matters because it will go on your criminal record. If you do drugs or drink, you're now wondering how you're going to afford to buy any drugs or alcohol after your aforementioned bills are paid and you buy groceries. For the majority of people, the decisions your parents make while you're a kid are in your best interest even if you disagree with them.
I'm not saying growing up sucks, it's fucking awesome. But part of growing up will be realizing how petty and unimportant all the bullshit you worried about in high school was.
parkplaygroundFirst off, didnt expect to get this much heat from my comment.
Second: again, I AM NOT SAYING COLLEGE IS EASY. I have seen the workload firsthand. It is unbelievably harder. That is not the issue and I never said that it was easier in the first place. I am just simply saying that highschool is the hardest thing you will do up to that point in your life, which may not be true for special, personal situations, but I think it covers the majority of the people 18 and under. I also know that College is a point in your life where your decisions matter more than ever before because you are relying on yourself at this point for your future, not your parents.
I will use a comparison to better explain what I said earlier in this thread.
You are in Middle school. Once you go into highschool, you realize middle school was nothing, but up until you graduated middle school to experience HS, it seemed hard. This is because it is, up to that point in your life, the hardest thing you have ever done, so you perceive it as such since you have no other life situations to compare its difficulty to. HS brought so many things you were not used to, which, because it was new to you (not just schoolwork, but as I talked about earlier, other things you inevitably have to deal with), you had no "tolerance" for it so it was on a whole new level of difficulty. You gradually became more comfortable with the increased difficulty, eventually seeing it as more normal than difficult, and then by the time you are a senior in HS and go to college, the cycle starts all over again, but again at a higher level. When you enter college however, HS gave you a taste of adulthood and it is less of a challenge to adapt, unlike how it was from Middle school to HS. THIS IS MY POINT. College is insanely harder, but the "tolerance" I am talking about takes much less time to develop going from HS to college.
In Highschool all of this new stuff is foreign, and creates a lot of stress. College also creates a lot of stress, but it comes a lot from increased work loads. By the time you reach college, alot of those stressful things that come with adulthood (aside from taxes and paying for yourself and such) are not completely new to you, and don't give you as much stress.
/explanation
If it is confusing, I am sorry. It makes sense in my head.
SamSandmireI'm a mom. We love our kids to death. But we worry. It's in our DNA & it's kind of our job. Is my kid gonna be safe? Is my kid gonna get good grades, graduate, get into a decent college, get a good job, stay out of trouble, etc? But mostly we just want our kids to be happy. We sometimes think WE know what's gonna make our kids happy (and what's gonna make them miserable).