Don't be totally afraid to call your parents out!
I got a text from my sister today, the first one I've ever gotten from her that went this deep for her. She said she was at my stepmom's house after recently having a fight with the oldest step sister. My step mom has a really bad/good habit (depending on which side you're on) of being completely loyal to her biological children.
Unfortunately this meant that my sister was on the bad end of this.
Anyways! I randomly got a text from my sister saying she wanted to go home to my mom's. Mind you I currently live 10-11 hours away. And then it followed with how she'd been there for a little over an hour, everyone at the house, and no one had said anything to her.
It would be a different story if she had isolated herself in her room. But she was sitting out in the living room. And she had tried talking to the others, but apparently the other stepsiblings wouldn't even look at her. And my stepmom is a real bitch when she's cranky and tends to kinda fly off the handles.
So she starts crying, right there in the living room while texting me (I didn't call her cause she's uncomfortable with talking on the phone). Still no one goes up to her. I finally convince her to go ask my father is she could go home, but she's crying so hard at this point she's having a hard time talking. So he dismisses her and tells her to go talk to the others.
So I called him up and told him to get his shit together. He's her father and she's out there feeling completely isolated right now in a house that is supposed to feel like a second home to her. I told him to be patient with her cause she may not want to talk about it, and to just listen and maybe play a game with her if that's what she wanted.
All she needed was for someone to pay attention to her. To listen to her and to help her feel like maybe not everyone in that house hated her at the moment.
And know what?
He went out there and tried talking to her for a minute. When it wasn't working, he pulled out the PS3 and let her win until she felt better.
Sometimes your parents may need a push in the right direction. So if you feel safe enough, call them out and help them figure out how to handle their children's problems.















