Annie Fox for Teens... Hey, Terra!

Hi there… How’s it going? Probably not all that great or you wouldn’t be here looking for help. No worries. Teens have been emailing me since 1997 because I give good advice. If you’ve got a problem with friends, so-called friends, a bf/gf, a parent, or anything else… email me. I can help you sort out your feelings. No matter what’s going on, you always have choices. And choices matter because sometimes the stuff we do to “fix” a problem only makes things worse. You don’t want to go there. Instead, let me help you figure out your next best move

In friendship,
Terra (aka Annie Fox)

From Terra’s Inbox

“I'm tired of lying to my parents.”

 

“My mom is so negative!”

Hey Terra,

I'm 19 yrs old, and ever since I graduated high school I have not been interested in school. The only reason I'm going to college is just to make my family happy,

For this past year I have not been attending school. All the classes I get I drop right away. My parents think that I'm really going to school. I'm just getting tired of this and I know if I was to tell my parents the truth I would be like the "loser" of the family. I have 2 brothers. Both of them have great jobs.

I've been interested in nursing but I don't like school. I'm interested in those hands-on schools, but I just don't...

 

Hey Terra,

I feel like "Enough", who wrote to you about her mother, and I have the same mother.

She constantly is yelling and complaining about me and my father. Yet when we tell her about something she does that annoys us she says, "That's right, I'm the bad guy." I honestly feel as if I don't even want to look at her. All she does is complain! Then, when I complain, she tells me to stop, that all this pessimism is making her mad! But my father! He annoys me too! Every little thing I say or do is turned into something worse then it really is!

They both make me SOOO angry! They don't respect me and I...

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