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 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 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 June 23rd, 2014 by Miche
Posted in Adoption, Age, Asian, Education, Identity, Language, Marriage & Divorce, Northern Europe, Parenting, Southern California, Trauma, Uncategorized
Tags: A, alienating teachers, Alma Mater, burning bridges, Central California, damage, elementary school, ending friendships, familiar environment, family stability, four year college, high school, junior high school, Master's Degree, Midwest, Montessori, parochial school, pre-kindergarten, private school, Public school, relationship, Scandinavia, school changes, stabile, university, unstable
Posted June 6th, 2014 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Attachment, Education, Identity, Parenting, Safety, Southern California, Trauma
Tags: age, attention, camper, dates, dating, emergency exit, Jealousy, Luke, meddling, siblings, tent, university, visiting, visitors
Posted June 4th, 2014 by Miche
Posted in Adoption, Education, Identity, Mental Health, Parenting, Religion, Safety, Southern California, Trauma
Tags: Biological Children, college, commute to college, damage, dorm life, Envy, home life, lack of tact, nerves, no privacy, nosiness, older sibling, overwhelm, rages, sibling trauma, siblins rivalry, studies, tantrums, university
Posted October 19th, 2013 by Miche
Posted in Abandonment, Attachment, Education, Mental Health, Northern Europe, Parenting, Southern California
Tags: chauffeur, driving to school, drop off lane, early grandiosity, entitlement, no buses, no errands, older siblings, servant, sibling rivalry, walk to school
