Keeping it real (like Dan)

#2. Three tips I would give parents about teenagers is 1) every teenage kid is different, so don't put them into the stereotype that all parents believe their kids are in which bad, rude, and disrespectful. 2) Parents should be close to their children, but not close as in best-friend there should be a line because you're a parent and you should be able to enforce them if needed. If you have the best-friend type of relationship it's easy to be a friend, but rather hard to be a parent. 3) Be there for them, you might think "well their grown up now you shouldn't have to worry" well you're wrong. Teenage years is the most crucial stage, it's where they are trying to find who they are and some can handle that, but some can't seem to find who they are or their way in life after high school. So focus on them as much as possible though you don't have to push them to do anything just watch them from behind is fine.

#7. I don't think you can know you love someone in three days. Three days? Impossible. Maybe the feelings the two individual have towards one another is stronger than they have for anybody else, but that doesn't mean it's love. Nowadays everyone think they are in love so fast that the meaning of love changes. People say 'I love you' in an instant, they move in with each other, and some have children before getting married. I'm fine with the couples that are successful in there relationship, but the average who have fallen in love too fast end up falling apart from one another. Some even start hating each other. That's what I don't get the most, you once dated someone and you truly "love" them but when you both separate ways you turn into enemies. I think love takes time, I feel love shouldn't be base on feelings only like in "Dan in Real Life" when I was watching it he only put is feelings towards everything and not is mind because feelings come and go for everyone.

#12. I don't like illicit love, it's not appealing to me. While watching Dan in Real Life I couldn't watch it after he met Marie. I don't like the plot story at all. I don't think it's right to have feelings for someone you shouldn't have for. If it's not right then it's not right. They don't think of the outcome all they were thinking was their feelings toward each other. I especially don't like it because Marie was Dan's brother's girlfriend and having these feelings behind the family while at a family vacation just grosses me out.

#22. I don't think life is full of disappointment to me I think life is a blessing. Yes, there are days where it doesn't go as you plan it to go, but we have to think of the positive side and not focus on the negative. I had a sub this one day for Anatomy & Physiology he said, "these are the best years of your life, be happy every single day." I think everyone should happy everyday just turn something bad into something good. To me how I deal with disappointment is just push it aside and move onto something that will make me happy.