My brother's being a bastard. HELP!
For anyone wondering why AIM and LJ were being reeeeally slow yesterday, it's all 'cause of Michael Jackson. Seriously. "Michael Jackson dies and almost takes the internet with him". O_o; I wasn't aware it was possible to make Wikipedia crash.
Also, I need advice on my brother again. He has, yet again, failed to call, and this time he's been in Canada for a week. Mom's HURT by this. She's tried to call every day, and we get nothing. We assumed he got no signal, but then he called and was like "Oh yeah, uh, I left my phone in my backpack." Which is entirely possible, except that I think that's BULLSHIT 'cause you must have used the phone at least once in the week and you MUST have seen that we called a few times.
Basically, my Mom's interpreting this as him not caring about the family. I'm seeing this as he's just being a selfish, self-centered brat, which is almost the same thing. We JUST told him not to do this because he didn't even invite us to his middle school graduation (he was all "Oh, I only knew about it the night before", which is complete bull because *I* obviously went to middle school and *I* knew a month ahead of hand), and now he goes and does it anyways. He didn't learn. At all.
Dad even cried before he left to tell my brother not to stress Mom out so much. I thought that got to him. Apparently it didn't. I know this shouldn't be a big deal, but the fact that Dad CRIED and it DIDN'T WORK is pissing me off severely.
Mom's away for two days today. I need to deal with this problem. I think I'm going to sit him down and tell him in a calm but extremely serious voice how much we despise this behavior and how absolutely selfish he is. It's not helping that I'm currently PMSing and I seriously, seriously want to bitchslap him. We're paying thousands of dollars to send him on this trip and he hasn't even bothered to THINK about calling. I know when I went to Australia when I was a teenager we actively called our parents anyways, even if it was difficult to do so. UGH.
Anything wrong with the 'talking to him' approach or does anyone know a better approach? :/ At this point, is there anything else I can do to get this through his thick head? Lemme know, please.
Also, I need advice on my brother again. He has, yet again, failed to call, and this time he's been in Canada for a week. Mom's HURT by this. She's tried to call every day, and we get nothing. We assumed he got no signal, but then he called and was like "Oh yeah, uh, I left my phone in my backpack." Which is entirely possible, except that I think that's BULLSHIT 'cause you must have used the phone at least once in the week and you MUST have seen that we called a few times.
Basically, my Mom's interpreting this as him not caring about the family. I'm seeing this as he's just being a selfish, self-centered brat, which is almost the same thing. We JUST told him not to do this because he didn't even invite us to his middle school graduation (he was all "Oh, I only knew about it the night before", which is complete bull because *I* obviously went to middle school and *I* knew a month ahead of hand), and now he goes and does it anyways. He didn't learn. At all.
Dad even cried before he left to tell my brother not to stress Mom out so much. I thought that got to him. Apparently it didn't. I know this shouldn't be a big deal, but the fact that Dad CRIED and it DIDN'T WORK is pissing me off severely.
Mom's away for two days today. I need to deal with this problem. I think I'm going to sit him down and tell him in a calm but extremely serious voice how much we despise this behavior and how absolutely selfish he is. It's not helping that I'm currently PMSing and I seriously, seriously want to bitchslap him. We're paying thousands of dollars to send him on this trip and he hasn't even bothered to THINK about calling. I know when I went to Australia when I was a teenager we actively called our parents anyways, even if it was difficult to do so. UGH.
Anything wrong with the 'talking to him' approach or does anyone know a better approach? :/ At this point, is there anything else I can do to get this through his thick head? Lemme know, please.