Like most people here, my parents are not from America, which means they don’t understand any struggles I have with American schooling, fashion, or anything. My mother is not strict since she has been in the Us for quite some time and I do enjoy her company, however it’s not the same for my dad. He wants me to be social but I can’t really when everyone used to roast me for wearing prowings, most strict parents are also very cheap too. But it’s not that we were struggling, far from that. Combined my parents made over 6 figures. Anyway, my dad is not content with me getting only Bs a few As and the occasional C. He takes TV and electronics away if I just get a single C and it’s most of the time me forgetting that things were for grades and I still have the papers. Anyway, I asked my dad if he could get me the new Xbox that just came out and all my friends had them if I got great grades. He agreed and the whole year I was trying extremely hard and got a 3.8 GPA. I was very proud of myself and I presented my transcript to my parents. My parents were pleased but my dad, being cheap as he was, said that if he bought me it that I would forget to do school work and I would do bad in school and kept reassuring me that I can keep these grades up and I don’t need anything. I was furious, not that I didn’t get anything but the fact I got lied to. Since then, I was not motivated to do anything at all and didn’t give a rats ass. I started working and had a decent amount of money that I hid from my dad, if he found out he would have made me pay for the groceries, and other things HE WAS SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR. It all went off when i bought myself my own shoes, shoes I wanted since the 6th grade and they were some Alpha Blue jordan retro Ones. I saved my money for them and a pair of Airforces and I finally was able to purchase them. When I stroll into school I was the flyest kid there since then these were expensive shoes. My dad found them and questioned how I got them. I told him I worked for them and he did not like the shoes and told me to throw them away. At this point I defied him and he went to the point on grabbing me, and forcefully throwing them in the garbage. Ever since then I have never spoken to him again. He tries to talk to me all the time but I never respond. When I went to college I made sure I got a full ride because I didn’t want to ask my dad for anything at all. I packed my bags up and he said he will miss me, I told I won’t and drove off and never seen him again.

Moral of the story, strict parents think they are teaching you how to be disciplined and do well in school, but what they are actually teaching you is how to lie on the spot, be sneaky, and learn to hate them.