Q. Tell my mom an online friend is a real friendship please. I met my friend during the pandemic when we both were playing an online game. My mom won’t stop nagging about how dangerous it is to meet someone online. Yes, I know people can pretend to be people they’re not, but we’ve ...
Q. Will you write about getting a dog in your column? My mom reads it all the time and she even makes me read it sometimes. I’ve been wanting a dog for years and every time I ask for one, I get told no. Why, I ask. Then I’m told I am too immature to care for a dog. How do they know? Has ...
Q. What do you do when your mom marries a guy with a son who is horrible. The son is horrible, not the guy my mom married. My stepdad is okay, I guess. My mom and dad split up when I was 12 and I hardly see him anymore, so it’s good to have more than one adult in the house and at least my mom ...
Q. My mom doesn’t get how stressed I am. I feel like something is demanded of me every minute of every day. I work two jobs. I like them, I do, but going to work at a fast-food place after a full day of school is a lot. My off nights, I watch my little brother so my mom can go to work. Then ...
Q. I’m homesick. I didn’t expect to feel like this. All I could think of since my junior year in high school was going to college. I carefully wrote essays and applied for scholarships, got into my first-choice school, and I’m here! And now all I can seem to think of is home. I miss ...
It’s wonderful to hear from successful young people!Q. I’ve read your column since I was in middle school, but I never wrote to you. I asked you lots of questions in school though. I’m just starting my senior year in college, and I wanted to write to tell you I’ll be graduating as a ...
