Your parent is coming to pick you up after school. All the other students are outside, waiting for their parents to come pick them up, but you stay inside the building.

She tells you to wait outside next time. Next time, you stand outside waiting. The street in front of the school that your parent will be coming down is a one way street. You stand looking in the opposite direction from where all the cars are coming from. Not once do you glance in the direction where cars are coming from.

Last week my DD8 was having some trouble with her homework. She had to write six sentences, three about what she has already learned at school, and three about what she would like to learn about. She was having a hard time thinking of anything and was getting very upset about it, to the point that she was almost in tears.

My SO overheard us so when I went downstairs to get a glass of water he asked me about it. He asked me "Is D8 okay?"
I explained to him about her homework assignment and that she was upset because she couldn't think of anything.

My D15 has an iphone and I am seriously considering getting rid of it and getting her a basic phone.

She is constantly on it. We're in the store and she's on it. We're riding in the car and I can't even say "Look, there's an eagle" because she's looking down at her phone. One day we were at McDonalds. When I turned to her to ask her what she wanted, she was on her phone.

I was abused as a kid by my mother. Any and every little thing I did wrong I was severely beaten. One time we were at church and there were some new people there. My mother told me to say Hi to them. I said I didn't want to because I was shy. She took me into the bathroom and beat me really bad. I remember she took me back out to the couple. I was crying so bad from the beating but I managed to chock out the word "hi" to them because I was terrified if I didn't I would get beaten again. I was 5 years old.