Kids Ceiling Fans

we have one in each bathroom but are going to be gutting out the guest/kids bathroom and didnt know if it would be a simple change like going from a light fixture to a ceiling fan.
to describe the heater, it turns on by a light switch, and it reminds me of an electric range since it is coiled and gets red, also it has a fan, i think since it hums. thanks to all for your help

First of all, let me give some small details and say that I am a 19 year old University drama student. Drama is one of my biggest passions in life and I love it. That’s part of the reason why I want to leave because unfortunately, I’ve grown up in an abusive home with lots of fighting and violence. I’m telling you, I would have nightmares about my father coming to kill me. Okay, maybe he never would do that, but still, a little kid can only feel so safe. I remember one dream we had where I actually did not have a dad and my mom brought a statue home that looked just like him. Well, I was somewhat fascinated by it. Then, he actually came to life and wanted to put my on his shoulders, just like most dads. Well, once he did, he started walking towards the ceiling fan and it was going real fast. I was terrified, I tried to get out, but I was trapped. As soon as I hit it, I woke up.

My past experience with my family is an extremely long story, one that I do not feel like telling. So I will just say that I want to leave and start my life over because I don’t feel as if I had the chance to live. Currently I’m going to school with student loans, and now that I mentioned the word loan, I’m going to get at least 20 idiots on here advertising fake loan companies. Happens all the time. Anyways, I have ,944 in my account and 60 bucks on hand that I withdrew because I needed to buy a pair of headphones (music is the only thing that keeps me sane, and I need to listen to it quietly). I’ll probably just deposit it all later. I also have change that I roll, and sometimes it’s better the way because it’s harder to spend money if I have change. I’m trying to be a lot smarter with me money because the first year I probably spent a little more than I should have on junk food, but thankfully I am a fairly responsible person. I have a bike, so I don’t need a car. If I have to, I take the bus or walk everywhere. I don’t need fancy or junk food; I can survive on basics. Books I can always checkout from the library.

I should also bring up that I suffer from social anxiety due to living in this environment. I want to find a job, but the anxiety is heavily preventing me from doing so. I’m thinking that maybe if I leave home first, then I can find a job, but I don’t know how smart this is. Once I stop going to school, I’ll have to pay back lots of money, and I don’t want to rack up dept just like that. Because of the anxiety, living with a roommate would also be a huge problem, and I don’t really have any friends or family I can stay with. Again, I’m thinking that once I start living on my own, the anxiety will get better. After all, I actually had the chance to act out in the big city in my province (living in Canada here) and I felt loads better and somewhat less anxious. Once I got home, I felt that way for days, then returned to normal. I’ve already taken the steps to get over my anxiety, but something is still holding me back. Perhaps I could start off living alone, then maybe I might actually make more friends and will be able to have a roommate. Also, my sister moved across the country to live on her own, but had to come home because she couldn’t afford it, and I know her as a very temperamental person. When she came home, she seemed like she was a lot happier, but of course, she reverted back to her usual self.

So I’m sure you want me to stop writing now. The point is that I’m now starting to think that leaving is my best option and not as impossible as I once thought. I just need some tips and advice from people. I have no problem with living cheap and making sacrifices.

I used to live at a small apartment with my wife and kids and me and my wife would often times wake up at exactly 3 am to a noise no knowing were it came from or why some times the tv would turn off or when we were down stairs we would here walking running up stairs. After that we thought nothing of it and forgot about it and moved to a new home for other reasons. A few times at the new place id here doors closing and stuff during the day but it stopped after a week. At our new home the upstairs has ceiling fans in the rooms instead of traditional lights and to turn on the light in the fan you can only use the one controller to turn it on , and each controller does not work on the other room fans. The first month there my wife went up stairs to find the ceiling fan flickering on and off , she came running down stairs and I went and checked it and it wasn’t doing it so I thought maybe the light was faulty. 2 months later (last night) home alone I was upstairs in the bathroom and saw in the mirror down the hall a black shadow move from our room to the one across the hall thinking nothing of it. I went to bed with wife and my DVD player on and her laptop was playing music for our 1 year old daughter in the other room. At 3 am we woke up to the light above our bed on and the fan on , and the laptop and DVD player was off. All the controllers were down stairs . We don’t know how the light turned on. Any advice

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As you probably already know, a bird can fly up to 50 miles a day and/or be transported by car. We just found a Cockatiel that was more then 50 miles from home that was lost for 2 months, a Quaker parrot lost for 7 months 40 miles from home, an African Grey lost for 8 months found 2000 miles from home (transported by car). Don’t be shocked. You may be contacted by people that are not in your town. If it is their bird they will have a picture or some type of identification to prove it.
Please also remember it can take a minimum of 3 days for a "lost" ad to appear in local newspapers. The owner is most likely looking for their bird, but you haven’t seen the ad yet.
If you do not have bird experience, or cannot keep this bird until the owner is located, please let me know. A 911 Parrot Alert volunteer will house the bird in a foster home in the area with one of our volunteers while looking for the owner. We are dedicated to reuniting these birds with their owners.

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Warning, you most likely will receive several calls from people saying ‘I’ll take the bird if you can’t find the owner’. If you decide to foster the bird yourself, please give it a few months before you let someone adopt it. We just reunited an African grey with its owner that was looking for him for 7 months. People go on vacation or go in the hospital and the birds caretakers accidentally let them out. The owners return and are devastated to find their bird gone. They are even more devastated to find that their bird has been given away without the chance of them to find them.
Also, please note, Birds require very special diets. They can be killed by many simple household items, such as Teflon, aerosols, ceiling fans, just to name a few. If you do decide to foster the bird we can give recommendations to help you.
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"Why does my bird do this?
(Rainbow lorrakie) My bird flew into my neighbours yard and they don’t like birds. So me and my family took him and now hes our birdy . But since the month started he has been chirping, rubbing his head against my finger. feet and neck and he has also been doing a chirpy song with a little dance. So please help im wondering why he is doing it but my family thinks it is a mating thing.
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Okay, I’ve got to vent. I’ve got 3 kids(twin b/g 3 yr olds and a 19 mon old boy), and I have to put everything up high where they can’t touch it. I live in base housing and we only have 3 bedrooms. Our computer and our extra tv are both in the livingroom with our other tv, cause our bedroom is way too small for either one, and our kitchen is so small that our kitchen table is in the livingroom too. I actually had to put the other tv and our computer in a corner and use a large play area fenced to block it from the kids. There is no gate to it, so we have to step over it to get to the computer, tv, and our other game systems. I wanted to put a tall floor fan in the kids’ bedrooms, but I can’t. They don’t listen, and will touch the fan, try to put their fingers in it, will turn it on and off repeatedly, or pull the plug out of the wall. I’ve tried plugging it behind a dresser, but they pull the cord. I’ve popped their hand and butts, put them in time out, and tried explaining why not to touch the fan The tall fan is now in the livingrom in our"fenced in area", so they can’t touch it.They don’t listen. No form of punishmnet or explanation works. So now I want to put a medium sized fan (black/yellow with a handle and two outlets) in the boys’ room, but the fan is too heavy for a wall shelf and the dresser is short enough that my 3 yr olds can reach the on/off button). So now I’m going to have to get a shelf from walmart that can stand on the dresser. Its one of those shelves that is two big squares which can be part of an entire big shelf or bookcase, if you choose to buy all of the pieces. I had to do that in my daughter’s room, and her dresser is taller than theirs, but not tall enough. Anyway I’m just sick of having to spend more time and money just to get one simple thing done. I’m tired of constantly having to be super creative. I actually had to take the ceiling light bulbs out of the kids’ because my oldest son wouldn’t quit turning the lights on and off. I finally put them back in after 9 months, so he doesn’t remember them being in there now. I don’t know what I’m going to do as they get taller and older. This is all so frustrating. I’m getting my daughter tested for Autism, and I think my oldest son has ADD because of some serious stuff he does, his behavior, and his attitude, then I’ve got my 19 mon old who tries to mimic them both, and they all start mimcing each other. So its extremely hard getting through any of them and making them behave. How do other parents deal with a situation like this? Any others have kids this close in age who don’t listen and act this way?
Oh and my kids have a table lamp in each room on the dressers. They are just tall enough to keep the kids from reaching the on/off button, and up against the wall so they catch reach the cords. So that’s why I was able to take out the celing lights.

Okay, I just wanted to throw this out there…so, Bunk Beds: Smart Idea or not? If you worry about your kid falling off the couch, worry about them falling off your bed, why the heck would you put your toddler in a bunkbed? Especially if they are prone to falling off your bed and love to jump off your bed and any surface for that matter. Just wondering my S-I-L is going be putting her children in a bunk bed. Ages 3 and 2-both boys. If you want to save space don’t trundle beds do the same thing? Also, if you kids climb on the countertops you freak out but it’s okay to put them up that high? Near the ceiling? by the fan blades? Smoke rises up? Just rambling, don’t think that bunk beds are the brightest invention. Maybe for the people that would let their children sleep in a tree, lol.

P.S. We had bunk beds growing up : ) just as a parent I wonder how you would trust your children up so high at such a young age, maybe when they are older, wiser, taller, but definitely not under age 6.

2 nights ago i got ready 2 play my game an I was a bout to get up untill my head felt super heavy and things got a little black but i snapped out of it and stayed up till 7 in the morning playing videogames and when I went to try to sleep to close my eyes I felt like I went on a roller coaster. sometimes I look at my ceiling fan an it looks like the room is shaking. when I stay up late or go out I feel vomit sliding up and down my throat.Also this might be too much info but I can’t have a bowel movement (unless i take some Polyethylene Glycol prescribed by my doc) Ive been looking for answers,without going 2 the doctor, but i heard my dizzyness and nausea sometimes points to pregnancy or depression, i was thinking I might be pregnant cause my period was in may 16 and its august now(so like about 3 months late?), and i spotted june 22 for like one day.(i don’t get allergies, and my periods have only been 1 week late at most,I don’t feel pregnant,well how should I know,and I kinda do normally feel nausea,but not dizzy.I have also taken alot of urine base pregnancy tests,all negitave, and took one yesterday, negitave ) (i’m also not ready 4 kids yet)

When I turn off a 15 amp circuit breaker on my electrical panel in the basement I loose power in both a bedroom and bath on the second floor. Seven floot outlets and a wall outlet go dead. I also loose power to the following: a ceiling fan with five light bulbs, a bathroom vent fan with with one bulb, vanity lighting with eight bulbs and a closet light. One of the outlets has an air conditioner on it and another has a TV and DVD player plugged into it. What wiring I can see says 14-2 on it. I can see a little if the wiring enough to see that it is 14-2 gauge. A friend tells me that he thinks this is a disaster waiting to happen. He can’t understand why the circuit breaker isn’t tripping all the time. Also, the vanity light switch crackles when turned on and off and has been doing it for years. I have three kids and if this situation is unsafe I’d like to deal with it ASAP. The house was built twelve years ago. Any comments will be much appreciated. Thanks.

him that’s is not working he say he is going to fix it. On top of that there are holes in the wall and there always a leak in the bathroom. the floors so weak when you walk you think they are about to cave in. There is mold in the bedroom where i sleep on the ceiling and the ceiling fan wires you can see them. the landlord say he is going to fix them but i have been living there for six months and he still have not fixed the things i need fix. I have 3 kids who have asthma and i don’t know what to do.

My wife and I are married for 21 years. We grew apart; I neglected her needs and she is a workaholic and in my view did not desire my closeness, e.g. I worked a swing shift and when I came home and the house was quiet all I was looking for was comfort. I wanted to cuddle until falling asleep. She had a bad shoulder (swimming), was tired all the time (work, coaching swimming, swimming Masters caliber herself, stress from running her own business, money problems). She felt my touch was always an initiation for sex, which it was not. I am a person who loves and needs physical closeness. She told me "do not wake me up under any circumstances, I need my sleep because I work all day and you are not taking care of the kids (taking them to soccer practice, swim practice), paying the bills (she ran the finances but wanted me to take the initiative to pay the bills sometimes). She would pull away if I attempted to touch her. She sleeps and cuddles with a body pillow, explaining this is how she was raised and will not give up the pillow. She reads until she falls asleep, every night.

As I said before I work a swing shift. I do help with the kids in the morning trying to keep them focused (12 and 9 year old boys) to get to school. I am in the military as a Reservist and I have had to be away from the home for extended periods of time leaving her to deal with the kids (she does not like and does not like the fact I may deploy on a moment’s notice…she hates me being in the military period…I have served proudly for 23 years). I also try to go to school to make a better life for my family but I have limited time and it is difficult.

I know that my personal communication skills are hard to read. I do take my time and think about what it is I want to say (she thinks I am just being moody or ignoring her). I have always been a sounding board for her, letting her vent and offering my ideas after she has vented.

So for about four years this has been going on. I realize now that I should have asked for us to go to counseling (hindsight is 20/20) but I did not. I would lay in bed night after night after night staring at the ceiling fan, wondering why she will not let me touch her. I began to resent and curse her under my breath. There are many little incidences of things that went wrong that are signs I should have recognized we were in trouble in our relationship but I was too wrapped up around the axle about the "hear and now" situation, which is out of character because I usually am good about projecting trouble down the way.

Enter social networking and making contact with someone I met 30 years ago at my first duty station. She and I were together 10 months. I asked her to marry me (naivete) and she was not ready. We drifted apart. Found her on Classmates.com and eventually Facebook. She was in the back of my mind not as a hookup but a fond memory. One quiet lonely evening she messages me in Facebook and we have a conversation. I relate my situation at home and she tells me to work it out because it sounds like I have a good marriage and it was worth fixing. My wife and I went to Reno for some alone-time. It seemed great but when we got back home we fell back into the same rut. I contacted the other person and told her I was unhappy. Long story short, we hooked up.

My wife approached me and asked if I was seeing someone else and told her the truth. She asked if I wanted a divorce and I said yes. She said she did not want one, that she took our vows seriously and was willing to fight for it. I was not hearing her at that time and she told me to get out. We filed. I continued my relationship with the other person. The other person has made it quite clear that she is willing to wait for me and I have hurt her as well because I am now not sure about continuing or relationship as I still love my wife of 21 years.

Here is the problem. My wife says she has moved on. She has forgiven me but due to her nature will never forget what I have have done. I can understand this but I am still in love with her. This is so debilitating to the point I am crying uncontrollably most of the time. I have told her I would do anything she asked if she would give me a second chance but she said because of her nature not to forgive someone who has done her wrong she will not let me back in as her husband, period.

She has had a relationship with someone and has found new freedoms she felt she did not have while we were together. She confided in me that she has done things with him that she had not done with me (getting a Brazilian). In the meantime, she and this guy have split up (she goes for the jugular when things are not going her way and takes cheap shots as a defensive mechanism).

I need help.
I have been through counseling as has she. She asked me to go through six months of counseling. I have left her cards and notes telling her I miss her, not trying to be overbearing but to stay in her mind. She told me to stop, so I did. She said it is not ruled out that there is a "possibility" but she does not want to lead me on. I asked her a direct question; if her counseling helped address her feeling uncomfortable with my physical closeness with her. She said she does not have a problem with physical closeness, enjoys it…but not with me. That hurt but I am still in love with her. Am I being naive?
So it seems the consensus is I should move on. If you who answer are truly happy because you do the little things in your marriage to make it work, and I am assuming it is reciprocal, for those who are calling me a pig and say I have made my bed now lay in it, is it cynical thinking on my part to attempt to make a marriage work? Or is the act of never forgetting too much of a hurdle to expend energy to fix a marriage?
I have an excellent relationship with my boys.
Luga: My asking the other to marry me was 30 years ago, not recently.
here’s your change: Not playing myself to be the victim and last time I checked a happy marriage does require two people to communicate; which we did not.
Caser: As stated above, I am not trying to and I do not want to control her feelings because that is what I love about her, being the type A individual compared to my easy going. I was always her sounding board and listened; I just did not listen to her heart. My bad. I just want another chance, that’s all. If it does not work out, I’ll call it a day.

Trish wandered into the Mess Hall, though thinking about murdering people wasn’t helping her appetite, she needed a big breakfast if she was going to accomplish today’s errands. She held up her brown tray to receive some runny scrambled eggs. The food at the orphanage wasn’t good, but it kept you alive. That is, if you had earned it. Trish always earned her meals, by helping the warden track down the kids her were misbehaving, so she never went hungry. There were a few other spies like her, but they were far and few between. Trish was lucky to have been asked. The rest of the kids had to earn their keep by being ‘volunteer’ testers for new drugs. As soon as you turned fourteen, they started injecting you with all sorts of stuff.

Lucas used to share Trish’s meals when he refused to be tested, but now he ran away when meal time came around. Trish guessed he ate out of the trash can. Either that, or Annika invited him over and they ate her wealthy parents’ food. Trish shuddered at the thought. It was disgusting enough the wretch had been adopted in her place, but if she was going to steal Lucas, and BRIBE him into being her friend- it was just to much to consider.

Trish shoved a spoonful of yellow slime into her mouth and forced herself to swallow. The reason she hadn’t ratted Annika out yet walked into the Mess Hall. Trish smiled predatorially. If she kept Annika happy, she kept Lucas happy. But maybe I could shake him up a bit, She thought. She waved her hand and called him over. He rolled his eyes, and looked for some place else to sit, but none could be found. She saw him sigh deeply, and wondered if she was really that bad. She couldn’t be she decided, rather quickly. It was probably the fact that her shower soap had been stolen, and now she had a peculiar odor exuding her entire being.

He sat down across from her and picked at his eggs. “What do you want, Trish?” he asked angrily.

“No ‘Hi Trish, how’s your life been?’ or ‘Sorry for making you eat this gruel by yourself?’”

“You knew there wouldn’t be.”

“All right then, Mr. Grumpy-pants, straight to the point. You haven’t changed a bit you know.” she winked at him flirtatiously, but he just stared at her blankly. No, she realized, not even at her, at the ceiling fan turning slowly behind her. She sighed and continued. This was definitely not going as planned. His new ‘friends’ had turned him into a complete zombie! “You know your girlfriend can’t be here.”

His eyes snapped onto her. That’s more like it. “She’s not my girlfriend.”

“Whatever Lucas. But you know the rules. She. Can’t. Be. Here. It’s as simple as that.”

“You wanna bet? I’m not so sure the matron would be pleased to hear you killed an orphan.”

Trish pouted and twirled her spoon. “I thought we’d put that behind us.”

“I’ll get over it when Oliver gets over it,” he said picking up his tray. He hadn’t eaten any of it, but he threw it all away anyway. She stuck her tounge out at him behind his back, but he spun around and saw her. “Murderer” he mouthed.

“Girlfriend” she mouthed back at him. Then she ran her finger across her throat. He looked at her, disgusted, and shook his head. Had she really just threatened to kill Annika? Trish had thought of it on a few occasions, but never seriously considered it. She pushed her tray away and looked out the window, watching all the kids running around screaming. She had killed before. It really hadn’t been that hard. Killing Annika, could solve all of her problems. But it’s wrong, she told herself. But it would be so easy… Trish stood up and put her tray away. She wouldn’t prove Lucas right, even if he was. Killing people was so immoral, it was part of the ten commandments. This place hadn’t been called “Holy Innocents” for nothing. They had been taught each of the commandments at a young age, and what would happen if you broke one of them, and Trish dearly hoped it would never happen to her.But if I’ve killed before, what have I got to lose? It was an internal battle Good Trish was losing desperately.

Why boys need parents…
And you also find out interesting things when you have sons, like…

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft.
house 4 inches deep.
2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with
roller blades, they can ignite.
3.) A 3-year old Boy’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded
restaurant.
4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not
strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a
Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can,
to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room.
5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on.
When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a
few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a base ball a
long way.
6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball
hit by a ceiling fan.
7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh", it’s
already too late.
8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though
a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.
10.) Certain Lego’s will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year
old Boy.
11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.
12.) Super glue is forever.
13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still
can’t walk on water.
14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
15.) VCR’s do not eject "PB & J" sandwiches even though TV
commercials show they do.
16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.
19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do
not like ovens.
20.) The fire department in Austin , TX has a 5-minute response time.
21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms
dizzy.
22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.
23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with
or without kids.

80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

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Today I was on facebook, talked to a former classmate of mines from high school. I heard the news that our high school’s valedictorian (class of 2008) dropped out of Yale University and was stopped by his family and friends who tried to keep him from committing suicide. According to them, he had the rope ready and was going to hang himself from the ceiling fan.
Our high school valedictorian was a bright Korean kid, a kid who rarely bothered anyone but was once beaten by his parents because he made a B on a science test. He went shopping with his parents, went to the mall with his parents, walked with his head down, was told where he can or can’t go and one time he received a loud lecture because he made a 2100 on the SAT instead of a 2300.

Well the kid went off to college and I heard a year ago that he was once caught drunk running around the dorm in underwear and singing a song. I IM’d him and he said everything was okay and life was going good.

According to what many people have told me, his GPA slipped to somewhere around a 1.1 or 1.2, it was a 4.0 in high school. Now he has to look elsewhere and cancel his plans of going to med school, poor kid……..

Okay so theres this kid and he has poison ivy. His sister rubs this stuff on him, but he doesn’t like it cuz it hurts. He gets the gun of the table and shoots her in the jaw. Somehow shes still alive and yelling at him. Then the scene changes. The kid is being dragged by a man in a long black coat and hat. His mouth (the kids mouth) is really bloody, and his nose is broken. He is also being dragged with another kid, but he’ already dead. The kid is yelling he wants to die. Then the scene changes im in my bed half asleep, and I see this huge bug like thing on the ceiling fan. I couldn’t control anything or really see. Then I see this thing that looks like a robot from transformers,but made out of like 10 cars. Then my dad is there and were trying to escape to the other room, but the bug thing has this long tentacle that grabs us when we try to escape. We finally get into the other room. I see this crow and a the kid with the bloody mouth. He’s telling something to the crow, but i cant quite remember. Something like come over here i have something to tell you. Then a tentacle grabs me and drags me into the other room. Im talking to the robot. Well actually a purple car thats on the robot. I was telling it something like this is not like you how could you do this. It was like it used to be good er something. I dont quite remeber the rest, but do you think this means anything? It really is kind of bothering me.
Thanks:)

laundry and have the internet up. When the washer starts to agitate.The closes out,my microwave starts to beep and the light flashes off and on. So now when I do laundry I make sure the computer is off. So I did laundry the other day. When the washer started to agitate,,it sounded like wind traveling down the trailer. The ceiling fan started spinning out of control. I could smell something burning,there was a fire under the microwave.I could hear popping in the living room our blue-ray surround sound was smoking.Ceiling fan on the other end of the trailer started sparking. I stopped the washer immediately, shut off the breakers. I of course put out the fire under the microwave! End result- ,960.00 in our stuff being FRIED! is the landlord liable? He will not answer our calls. I guess I should mention the landlord is my step-brother,and not a very good one!! We gave him 0.00 when we moved in. He wrote up a month-to-month contract 0.00 per month if we do not agree we have 30 days. With in that time is when the electrical thing happened. By the way he has only a 100 AMP for electrical. Everything in here is electric. Do you think he is liable? He is very,very lucky we didn’t lose our lives or my kids didn’t get hurt! HELP! Thanks for taking the time to read this.

My 13 year old has to babysit my 6 yr old twin boys. I also has an 11 yr old who has adhd. Most days he is out playing with his friends. One day, I came home and someone broke a fan blade off the ceiling fan. One day, the walls were colored with sharpie. One day, the remote was broke and there was some stuff missing. One day, the kids called me to tell me they broke off the kitchen faucet and then today, they broke another blade off of a different fan. This is costing me almost as much as a daycare would and I can’t afford daycare (single mom with hr job)…I am so tired of yelling when I get home and having family discussions every other day when they don’t work. Tonight I plan on packing all thier belongings except clothes to punish them. What else can I do?? I really can’t afford to build another house!!
I am on a waiting list for gvmt assistance for day care…It’s a 6-9 month waiting list and I will have to pay 0 when my name comes up them for the other time I had thier assistance and couldn’t afford it. There are no daycares or centers or anyone willing to work with me. Even the boys & girls club charge 0 a week. The gvmt asst goes off your gross income and does not even take in consideration of your nessecities. so it’s basically working to pay for the daycare. My 13 yr old is very mature, and we are close. No, it’s not fair to her, but it’s not fair to any of them especially if I won’t be able to afford anything for them because I can’t work. We do have a chore chart, and a rewards system, but that doesn’t seem to matter.

First of all, let me give some small details and say that I am a 19 year old University drama student. Drama is one of my biggest passions in life and I love it. That’s part of the reason why I want to leave because unfortunately, I’ve grown up in an abusive home with lots of fighting and violence. I’m telling you, I would have nightmares about my father coming to kill me. Okay, maybe he never would do that, but still, a little kid can only feel so safe. I remember one dream we had where I actually did not have a dad and my mom brought a statue home that looked just like him. Well, I was somewhat fascinated by it. Then, he actually came to life and wanted to put my on his shoulders, just like most dads. Well, once he did, he started walking towards the ceiling fan and it was going real fast. I was terrified, I tried to get out, but I was trapped. As soon as I hit it, I woke up.

My past experience with my family is an extremely long story, one that I do not feel like telling. So I will just say that I want to leave and start my life over because I don’t feel as if I had the chance to live. Currently I’m going to school with student loans, and now that I mentioned the word loan, I’m going to get at least 20 idiots on here advertising fake loan companies. Happens all the time. Anyways, I have ,944 in my account and 60 bucks on hand that I withdrew because I needed to buy a pair of headphones (music is the only thing that keeps me sane, and I need to listen to it quietly). I’ll probably just deposit it all later. I also have change that I roll, and sometimes it’s better the way because it’s harder to spend money if I have change. I’m trying to be a lot smarter with me money because the first year I probably spent a little more than I should have on junk food, but thankfully I am a fairly responsible person. I have a bike, so I don’t need a car. If I have to, I take the bus or walk everywhere. I don’t need fancy or junk food; I can survive on basics. Books I can always checkout from the library.

I should also bring up that I suffer from social anxiety due to living in this environment. I want to find a job, but the anxiety is heavily preventing me from doing so. I’m thinking that maybe if I leave home first, then I can find a job, but I don’t know how smart this is. Once I stop going to school, I’ll have to pay back lots of money, and I don’t want to rack up dept just like that. Because of the anxiety, living with a roommate would also be a huge problem, and I don’t really have any friends or family I can stay with. Again, I’m thinking that once I start living on my own, the anxiety will get better. After all, I actually had the chance to act out in the big city in my province (living in Canada here) and I felt loads better and somewhat less anxious. Once I got home, I felt that way for days, then returned to normal. I’ve already taken the steps to get over my anxiety, but something is still holding me back. Perhaps I could start off living alone, then maybe I might actually make more friends and will be able to have a roommate. Also, my sister moved across the country to live on her own, but had to come home because she couldn’t afford it, and I know her as a very temperamental person. When she came home, she seemed like she was a lot happier, but of course, she reverted back to her usual self.

So I’m sure you want me to stop writing now. The point is that I’m now starting to think that leaving is my best option and not as impossible as I once thought. I just need some tips and advice from people. I have no problem with living cheap and making sacrifices.
Abuse is part of it. The thing is that my parents aren’t quite as messed up as they were before, however, being around them continues to cause me considerable anxiety, and after having my trust broken in them several times, I’m starting to get fed up. So I basically want to leave, start a new chapter in life, and work on my anxiety away form them because no matter what, I can’t totally beat my problems while I’m living here.
Ohh, and I don’t have friends or family I can live with. I want to try living alone if that is possible.
I’ve tried meds before, but they made things worse. I might be open to try them again, but not while I’m living at home just because I feel they would be innefective. I understand that it’s difficult to live on your own. Believe me. But unfortunately, as long as I’m suffering from this horrible anxiety, I doubt I could handle a roommate for at least a while.

I have a new home. I installed ceiling fans in each room. When my wife runs the vacuum in the rooms with the fans, the circuit breaker gets tripped. The only option is to plug the vacuum into an outlet that is not in the room that has a fan (nearby hallway). The breaker is 15 amps (GFI). My builder says that the bedroom circuits are purposely sensitive GFI breakers to prevent kids from being electrocuted. BTW, this happens on initial vacuum start up. It is a sears kenmore canister vacuum ("progressive") that is probably 7-10 years old.Could my vacuum be drawing more than 10 amperes on start up?

So I created a art club, because I noticed that most students have to wait for their parents for a while, and most of them are in my art class. I just started it and I was talking to the kids that signed up for it, on what we should do everyday. I was originally going to give them lessons but one suggested that we have a theme each day and draw. So today’s theme was a kid with a hand in a cookie jar. Allot of kids created really nice portraits. Like one student drew a boy hanging from the kitchen ceiling fan wearing a martial arts uniform, reaching for the cookie jar on the counter. So I want to make a list of different topics that we can draw. So if you have any ideas please share them. Even if you think its something funky please do share. Oh and please no inappropriate things this has to be school appropriate.

I really am sorry for the length, but I really really need help. It’s been 19 years old since I was born and I seriously felt like I have never had the chance to live. Growing up with a family who had given up on life was pretty discouraging. My idiot father actually told me when I was around maybe 8(not 100% sure) that I should stay a kid for as long as possible because growing up is depressing and I never get those years back. Well, thanks. Thanks for turning my childhood into a moody, depressing hell. Yeah, I think my dad is a prick, not just because of this, but because of all the crap he put me through. I’ve seen him hit my mom, I’ve seen him come home drunk and give my mom the finger(which I gave it back to him, even though I was just a kid), and I’ve seem him throw tantrums over extremely pointless and trivial garbage, like my mom wanting to have a good Christmas? Are you serious? And of course, that one night he came home drunk and stumbled all over the place, it was just before the last day of school and we were supposed to have a day of games and fun, which was pretty much ruined for me.

I’ve been told that I should forgive my father, that I should even try to see a play with him(I’m very big into theatre). No. I would much rather staple my lips to a ceiling fan. That would be paradise compared to having to give him any kind of dignity to allow him to get away with all of that. Apparently I depress him because I won’t talk to him. Too bad. Get over it. If he wanted a son so bad, he should have learned to treat me and everyone else with some more respect. I won’t acknowledge him as my dad. I’ve given up.

Sorry for the long, negative rant there. I’m just extremely angry that my family thinks that I’m being childish. Well sorry for being the only one with any sense of reality. I realize that my parents are not emotionally mature people. They treat me as if I’m an idiot, but in reality, I think I’m the only one who sees that life is so much more than just making money and then dying. That’s a pretty pointless life to me. I mean, I’m pretty much the only one who stuck around in high school and went to University as soon as I graduated. Everyone else sat on their ass for years because they were too scared. My mom recently decided she wanted to go, and she got accepted. I’ll be honest, as much as I support her and try to help her out with it, I have serious doubts that she’s strong enough to do it. She had to have my sister write a profile for her to get accepted, which to me means she is not serious about it at all. It’s funny, the roles are reversed now. WE are the ones taking care of HER. A counselor I spoke to actually told me that the way she talked to me and acted towards me, it was almost like I was the husband figure in her life. It really disturbs me to think about that.

Anyways, as you can see, my parents are pathetic people, and it’s really hard for me to even call them my parents. My mom claims that she had raised good kids with good values, but in reality, we learned good values as a result of their stupidity. I suffer from social anxiety and other emotional problems, and I’ve had to undo the damage they have done. I mean, I try not to complain about it because I’m not that type of person, but I can’t ignore the fact that they have been a huge part of it all. Now that I’m 19, I want my life back because my childhood and adolescent life was filled with all of this. I completely lost it due to depression, and it really hurts. My parents will never acknowledge this because they are too scared to admit it. If that’s the case, I think it’s best if I just leave them.

I’d better rap this up. I’m going to school for acting, though who knows where my future takes me. I want to act in theatre because I’m very passionate about it. I really want to move out and live on my own, but I really don’t know how to do that. I get loans, but I have to pay it all back eventually. I’m going to look for a job soon, but I’m concerned how I will make enough to pay for rent and food. Can you please help me? Please, I seriously need someone to listen and give me advice because I have nobody else to turn to.
Forgive the minor typos and errors I’ve made. I typed this up a bit quickly, and I’m a little tired right now. Just really moody.

I know Asian kids make straight A’s, they get perfect SAT scores and all that. Their parents are strict, rarely let them socialize and often beat them for making bad grades (B’s being bad grades) in school. Well I went to a high school with not that high of an Asian population but the university I am going to has a very high Asian population. I notice that a vast majority of the kids who leave after their first year tend to be Asian and usually Asian kids don’t do the best in classes as compared to Black or White kid.

I noticed that many cannot handle their freedom in college and are willing to just "break out of their shell" and everything. People say Asians are successful but most of the ones who are that way are the ones who are super successful in Asia and come to the US to make a fortune. Recently a Korean kid I knew hung himself from the ceiling fan because he found out he wasn’t going to get into med school.

I know Asian parents want the best for their kids but do we give them way too much credit as being the "best parents"?

If so tell your story and best story wins 10 points, before you do that you can read mines.

Today I was on facebook, talked to a former classmate of mines from high school. I heard the news that our high school’s valedictorian (class of 2008) dropped out of Yale University and was stopped by his family and friends who tried to keep him from committing suicide. According to them, he had the rope ready and was going to hang himself from the ceiling fan.
Our high school valedictorian was a bright Korean kid, a kid who rarely bothered anyone but was once beaten by his parents because he made a B on a science test. He went shopping with his parents, went to the mall with his parents, walked with his head down, was told where he can or can’t go and one time he received a loud lecture because he made a 2100 on the SAT instead of a 2300.

Well the kid went off to college and I heard a year ago that he was once caught drunk running around the dorm in underwear and singing a song. I IM’d him and he said everything was okay and life was going good.

According to what many people have told me, his GPA slipped to somewhere around a 1.1 or 1.2, it was a 4.0 in high school. Now he has to look elsewhere and cancel his plans of going to med school, poor kid……..

Other than MOVE what can I do :

When I moved here I wasn’t looking for friends.
But my neighbor befriended me & we went to town together & had lunch & talked.
I didn’t really like her but it turned for the worst & now I dislike her extremely !

She related things to me about when she worked at a State Hospital
& either allowed patients in a syphilis unit be abused by other workers or
abused them herself (or both)
I’m not real sure.

She also told me about others she has abused & I became angry but tried to not let it show.
She seemed to brag about the things which made me even madder but still I said nothing about it to her.

Instead,I dwelt on it awhile trying to figure out how to handle it because I have my own problems & felt that she was deliberately causing problems so I could not do things I needed to for my own sanity because she knew of things I had been through & that I moved her so I could be serene.My nerves are bad etc.
She made veiled threats to me saying things like :you better not do anything to me.I have military on one side of my family & Mafia on the other side!

She was always cutting me down & being hateful.
I tried to be positive hoping it would make her be positive too but that didn’t work.

She is quite a bit older than I am & likes to get her own way so much it’s sickening!
She bragged about how spoiled she was & after her anniversary I was outside & she came over to show me her new ring.
She nearly stuck it up my nose !

She got mad when I wouldn’t talk mean to their little dog who I saw hit by her with sticks!

the list goes on & on

I was made to feel so low & downed by her & her spouse that I want nothing further to do with them – so I didn’t speak to them.

Then I got worried after rehashing conversations we had & one that her & her spouse told me they are both FOR torture that I was living next to TERRORISTS so I turned them in to the FBI

I sent them a copy of what I had written.
I also sent a copy to their daughter & to others in this very small town so they could all know that I am not a "do nothing"

I would like to know your opinions of this.

They also have a yard that is not well kept with things piled so bad on their acreage
that I can’t get a good picture of my property without the trash being in the picture.

They have been her a couple of decades at least & know everyone & he is a contractor but rumor has it that he is why one house they built & occuppied burnt to the ground & she said she only survived it because of their dog who rescued her but died in the fire after it woke her up.

I was there one day a smoke plume curled out of their ceiling fan that he wired. So was a neighbor kid.

She told me she would never put him in prison – but I’m not sure what thats about.

It’s pretty crazy.
I am very uncomfortable about them.
I can’t afford to loose sleep over ths issue!

more recently their septic tank backed up & they wanted to run it down on my land but I don’t want that in my yard !
I really think if he is such a great contractor those issues would be no problem & they would stop trying to involve me in their misery !

I don’t like to have to worry about living next to such a spoiled PSYCHO.

I do it all the time i did it when i was in elementry school and my teacher used to tell it to me all the time that it was rude. one time i farted when i was 14 in 8th grade in my foods class and it stunk the whole class room up the teacher had to put all of the ceiling fans on, everyone smelled it it was so funny and this one kid told me i got stinky gas it was so funny. everyone lauged when i did it and said ew and people still laugh. i say excuse me so why isnt it ok? I mean sure it may stink sometimes when i do it but who cares. I just dont see what the big deal is about it its a part of life sometimes i dont even say excuse me either
by the way im 21 and will be 22 next month
but chase when i fart im not getting in peoples faces, its just a smell and a fart noise whats wong?
but i like to fart whats wrong with that? i just like the smell of it. i think they should make colonge and perfume out that smell

whats a narciscisst?
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but i like to fart whats wrong with that? i just like the smell of it. i think they should make colonge and perfume out that smell

whats a narciscisst?

My step-dad is a total idiot. He thinks that reversing the fan sucks hot air out of the room. I’m not kidding.

Someone tell him how much of an idiot he is and precisely why so that he stops reversing the fan, since it doesn’t help when blowing the wrong way…I tried explaining it, but he’s too stubborn to listen.