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Tracy Turnblad
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I am a straight-A high school student who has good relationships with her friends and family. I plan on abstaining from sex until I'm married and alcohol until I'm legal. I go to church regularly and consider myself a Christian (they're not necessarily the same thing), but I'm not in the practice of condemning people. Basically, I have never gotten into serious trouble about anything.
So why the heck does my dad keep giving me self help books?!
Over the past five years, my dad has given me that one book for teens that Bill O'Reilly wrote, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, The Six Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make, ANOTHER copy of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens (he forgot he gave me the first one), and (here's the kicker) Every Young Woman's Battle: Guarding Your Mind, Heart, and Body in a Sex-Saturated World. He's got another one planned for me this summer, but he won't tell me what it is.
My dad lives many, many states away from me, and I think the books are his way of trying to give me advice. The thing is, I hate these books. I think they're condescendingly written, and frankly, reading them just makes me want to do bad things more than I did in the first place. Also, they're pretty much redundant; I think I'm doing okay. My dad, however, has voiced his distaste for the way my mother is raising me and my sisters many times, even though, once again, everybody else seems to think we're pretty good.
I have talked to him about this, and he insisted that they are not self-help books (they say self help on the label) and that he is going to keep giving them to me. I'm going insane; there's no way to not read it, because he likes to discuss them with me. Is there a way to get out of this without making my dad mad?
So why the heck does my dad keep giving me self help books?!
Over the past five years, my dad has given me that one book for teens that Bill O'Reilly wrote, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, The Six Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make, ANOTHER copy of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens (he forgot he gave me the first one), and (here's the kicker) Every Young Woman's Battle: Guarding Your Mind, Heart, and Body in a Sex-Saturated World. He's got another one planned for me this summer, but he won't tell me what it is.
My dad lives many, many states away from me, and I think the books are his way of trying to give me advice. The thing is, I hate these books. I think they're condescendingly written, and frankly, reading them just makes me want to do bad things more than I did in the first place. Also, they're pretty much redundant; I think I'm doing okay. My dad, however, has voiced his distaste for the way my mother is raising me and my sisters many times, even though, once again, everybody else seems to think we're pretty good.
I have talked to him about this, and he insisted that they are not self-help books (they say self help on the label) and that he is going to keep giving them to me. I'm going insane; there's no way to not read it, because he likes to discuss them with me. Is there a way to get out of this without making my dad mad?