Glad my parents taught me tough love to this day
Glad my parents taught me tough love to this day. I changed going down the wrong crowd after I turned 13 hanging around the wrong crowd that were a negative influence. Hung around people that were doing the drugs and drinking. Never got caught and things changed when I was 16. Remember coming home from the last day of school and dad was waiting for me and he was there when I got home. Looked at me and said I was going to a program for troubled teens seeing prison life was like. Him including my mom signed me up for it showing there is a consequence for every bad choice made. Went and it was not pretty at all. Prisoners telling their stories getting yelled in the face. It put a huge impact on me and the biggest was one on one with one I still stay in contact with. I remember with her in her cell sitting by each other. Looked and me said I am one beautiful young lady with a life ahead of me. She is serving a life sentence for drugs and was part of a murder during a drug deal. Said she was like and saw I started to tear up. Told her things were going to change, one is get out of that bad crowd. Said she wanted to keep in contact with me helping me. I got the message and things changed with me in the right direction. Got out of that bad crowd focusing on heading on the right direction in life. My parents were amazed with the changes and I got the trust back from them. Age 18, a Marines recruiter was at school and talked to him, gave me his business card and a Marines pamphlet. I thought it over well making the choice. One day, knew it was to do it. Grabbed my car keys and went to leave dad seeing me do it. Asked me where I am going with him reading the newspaper. Went back and sat down telling him I was going to the Marines recruiting office and enlist. He was for it and I left to go there enlisting. Did and said he was 100% proud of me. Mom found out too and proud of me too. Did thank them for the tough love they gave me. It was emotional at the airport leaving for Marines boot camp, we hugged and told me good luck. They saw a huge new person out of me on boot camp graduation day seeing the respect and discipline I learned
