Posted January 10th, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Adoption, Age, Driving, Identity, Mental Health, Parenting, Play, Safety, Southern California
Tags: adventures, coastal road, driving, flat tire, frozen road, gash in sidewall, joy ride, legal driver, live vicariously through others, mountain road, no cell phone coverage, noble intentions, one-up manship, recreating memories, two-lane road
Posted January 9th, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Adoption, Age, Attachment, Driving, Education, Marriage & Divorce, Parenting, Safety, Southern California, Trauma
Tags: adoptive father, CA license, California driver, careful driver, decisions, driving consent, Facebook, feign ignorance, hide the key, joyride, obsessive compulsive, parental consent, permission, permit, teenage driver, temptation, told you so, unbearable temptation
Posted January 8th, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Adoption, Age, Attachment, Driving, Education, Identity, Marriage & Divorce, Mental Health, Parenting, Safety, Trauma
Tags: adopted daughter, car rules, desires, dormitory, driver's license, driving under influence, expensive car, first vehicle, good grades, local college, needs, no drinking and driving, older vehicle, purchase price, sports car, teen driver, wants, without car at college
Posted January 7th, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Adoption, Age, Driving, Education, Identity, Marriage & Divorce, Mental Health, New Orleans, Parenting
Tags: california, clunker, dates, driver's license, Envy, errands, first car, French Market, freshman year college, hood ornament, learner's permit, leather seat, Louisiana, New Orleans, peer relations, practice hours, school
Posted January 5th, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Adoption, Age, Driving, Education, Health, Identity, Marriage & Divorce, Mental Health, Parenting, Safety, Southern California
Tags: adult, adult decision, California driver's license, chronological age, crosswalk, deal breaker, Department of Motor Vehicles, driver's education, driving exam, emotional stability, focus on driving, maturity, medication, Mental Health, mental illness, non compliant, obsessed, pedestrian, safe driver, solid white line, turn signal, unsafe driver
Posted January 4th, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Adoption, Age, Driving, Health, Marriage & Divorce, Mental Health, Parenting, Safety, Trauma
Tags: child of trauma, decision making, destructive fit, DMV, emotional stability, forget responsibility, guardianship, medical treatment, mental illness, non compliant, obsessed, parenting style, physical fits, prescription meds, rage, screaming, teen, wrath
Posted January 3rd, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Adoption, Age, Driving, Education, Parenting, Safety, Southern California, Uncategorized
Tags: 18th birthday, behind the wheel, brother, Dad, Department of Motor Vehicles, DMV, DMV line, driver's license, driving test, failure, gray hair, highway, instructor, license, Necessary Paperwork, Parents, permit, prepared, required hours, road test, rural route, self esteem, sibling, Sister, study guide, teen driver, test
Posted January 2nd, 2015 by Miche
Posted in Adoption, Age, Driving, Education, Parenting, Safety, Southern California, Trauma, Uncategorized
Tags: 15 year old driver, appointment, certificate, conflict, cost, Department of Motor Vehicles, DMV, driving, driving theory, due diligence, exam, freedom from parents, Homework, hullabaloo, learner's permit, next available, online instruction, passed test, permit test, right of passage, right to drive, school work, sixteen, sixteenth birthday, social network, teenage driver, telephone, timing
Posted December 15th, 2014 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Age, Clothing, Education, Holidays, Identity, Parenting, Southern California
Tags: Christmas, Coach Purse, comparisons, Converse, coveted item, expensive, feelings of inferiority, handbags, Haves and Have-Nots, high school, identity struggles, Keds, middle school, Santa's wish list, shoe fetish, sneak, splurge, Uggs, Vans
Posted December 13th, 2014 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Adoption, Age, Attachment, Clothing, Holidays, Mental Health, Northern Europe, Parenting, Trauma
Tags: c, candlelight, catacombs, Christian persecution, Christmas sucks, common property, darkness, festive season, gifts, Italy, light hearted, necessities, nothing suffices, Roman maiden, sabotage, sadness, Saint Lucy, Santa Lucia, siblings, stocking stuffer, Trauma, unattainable gifts, wish list
