“One of the downfalls is that your parents are harder on you, but only because they’re afraid of what the world will do to you. You’re basically this guinea pig, and they’re trying to figure you out and how to get you to navigate the world properly. But as you age, they begin to trust you, so much so that they want you to watch over their other kids. But with that comes the annoyance of babysitting on weekends, when what you really want is to go out and have fun with your friends—and you can’t, because your ‘parent’ has to work, or they end up having things planned for themselves.” I fiddled
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