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Should I run away from home? Part 2 please don't answer here! Answer on Part 3 please?

I like my dad's. It is where most of my friends are. I also have the freedom that every young teenager my age should have, like being able to express my opinions and dressing how I like. (And it's nothing like slutty skirts and tight tops; I like jeans, tshirt, hoodie and converse, hair in a ponytail. My mum likes me in skinny jeans, sandals, flowy long shirt, hair down, proper dressed up like I'm going somewhere even if I'm staying in.) I have a good relationship with my dad, and on this side of the family noone fights and everyone is happy. On the downside, my dad isn't very well off with money. I only have one set of clothes there and quite a small room in quite a small house, and my bed is uncomfortable though I don't notice anymore because I'm so used to it. On the upside, I have a pet and a laptop and good meals (though most are unhealthy), and I can bring my ipod and stuff from mum's. In short, I am brought up in a loving environment that teaches me that I matter as much as everyone else yet also teaches me to be polite and never assume I am the best, but have a poor lifestyle. But I am happy there!

Children's home: I have found a local children's home, 10 minutes walk from my mum's. I don't know much about it at all, except for how to get there.

I want to run away from my mum's as it is all getting too much.

My choices are:

-Run to dad's: Good things: trusted adult, safe place, family. Bad things: I would be home alone often, I would eat unhealthily, she would barely have any clothes (I could buy some)

-Stay at mum's: Good things: sheltered, fed and safe. Bad things: everything else

-Run to friend's: Good things: trusted family, safe Bad things: 2nd place they would look (after dad's), not permanent

-Run to local children's home: Good things: it's a children's home and it's local. Bad things: could get in trouble, could get caught and sent home, could get lost on the way there.

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  • 9 years ago
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    It is good you are thinking about safety

    If you are going to your dad's.. Learn to cook

    Then you will still have healthy meals.

    You sound sensible enough to handle that.

    Running away rarely solves things,

    It will get your parents attention, though

    Hiding under a friends bed for more than a night, wouldn't work

    A children's home would phone police or social services, because they have to.

    Stay in School, then you can what you like after University

    Both your parents still love you, just not each other

    And you are in the middle.

    I have another option for you

    Talk to someone... any one

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