I really don't understand when does parents and children swap roles. You can not afford to be a child and a man or woman in the same person and depend on me. If you are still a child and depending on your parent, choices are limited and sometimes they don't exist at all.
If you feel that now you are a man or a woman, you DATING, you SMOKE, you DRINK ALCOHOL, then it's time to move out, get your own place, pay your own rent, invite us to come over for a braai and congratulate you on your big achievement.
Everybody under your roof should be going to church with you, I don't understand parents living children behind on Sunday.
You may not remember, but there was a time when you could not do a thing for yourself, and depended fully on your parents to carry you, feed you, bath you, wipe your behind, even sleepless nights when you came down with fever, took you by hand to school. Today you claim that nothing was done for you, now that is triple stupid.
Do you really think play station, sleep overs, branded clothes determine the level of love?
Proverbs17:21 "To have a fool for a son brings grief; there is no joy for a father of a fool". Same applies to daughters.
The celebrities you hang on our walls and put as profiles on the phone that we bought as parents and we still continue buying bundles and airtime for it, and never get to be on the profile pic.
Those celebs respect and love their parents, they sing about "buy my mom a house", and appreciating them.
2Pac "Dear Mama" Shaquil O'Neil "Phil is my father" Casper "Mama I made it".
You aspire to be like them but you don't respect your parents, forget about it. You never clean your own room, you don't cook yet you always hungry, you ask for airtime and never call to say what time you coming back.
You are biting the hand that feeds you.
Exodus 20:12 "Honour your father and your mother, SO THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG IN THE LAND THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU".
Stop cutting your life, your career, talent, education short. You are not successful because you don't know if you are a boy or a man, a girl or a woman.
Where do you get audacity to exchange words with your parents, what do you know about step mother or step father. The fact that she is your mother or your father's choice means she or he is your parent, and you have to treat them with respect for making sure that your butt is covered and your tummy is full, you have roof over your head and transport for school, shoes on your feet.
Your big mouth is your biggest downfall and also your stumbling block. You are likely not to succeed pass the achievements of your parents, if you lucky because of being ungrateful for what they bend over backwards for, to make sure that you are not that much different from other children.
The most fortunate thing is that you still have your parents and you can still make right with them. Humble yourself and apologise, naming everything one by one, don't just say I'm sorry for all, you need to make them understand what are you sorry for.
Your single parent needs to know that he/ she can depend on you someday, the fact that they are single means they have been through a lot already, and now the person who is suppose to be their consolation is also adding to their long list of hurts, you can do better than that.
Own up, grow up and be responsible...
QB Mthethwa.
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