This is for all parents, future or present. Please believe your children. I don’t care what it is, wether they saw a snake in the grass but when you came to look you couldn’t find one. Believe them. My parent do this 💩 all the time where, I’m twenty fyi, I’ll see something and say I think one of our goats is missing, then they argue with me when they think they can see them even though, using binoculars, the goat wasn’t there. I then found the goat only to be told he must have moved in the time that I walked out the door. Needless to say the goat didn’t move over 500ft in the time it took me to walk out our back door. I’m so fn sick of arguing about 💩 I know I can see. Yet I am still yelled at and talked hateful to in this situation because supposedly I’m always and I mean ALWAYS wrong in this situation in their eyes. Just a few days ago I saw a species of salamander in a phase of its life cycle where it has a long fat tail like a tadpole. I’m currently in college to become a wildlife biologist because I love animals and have studied them all my life thus far. They proceeded to argue with me saying it was just a tadpole and that I’m not always right. Never said I was but the same goes for them. I took a picture of it while they mocked and laughed saying she still doesn’t believe us. You know what, turns out it was a salamander. When I sent them a picture they just laughed and said nothing. Parents please listen to me when I say don’t always think you are right because I promise you, you are not. Your children are not always right either but give them the benefit of the doubt. This takes a serious toll on your children and will be the reason they don’t come to you for help and support. I still haven’t told them about my rape because I’m scared they will pull some 💩 like this where they don’t believe me. I may never tell them because they haven’t earned enough of my trust and faith to believe they would ever believe me. Don’t tell you children that they can’t reach their dreams, don’t tell them they can’t do something even though they haven’t tried, don’t put them in situations where they have to choose between a rock and a hard place because that fn sucks. Don’t drag them into your marriage arguments because they feel they have to take a side. And please always believe them. I’m sick of hiding and being put down by my own parents. When I told them I wanted to be a wildlife biologist my dad laughed and said “good luck with that” clearly believing that I can’t do it. When I told my parents that I was depressed I was told to suck it up. Don’t make the mistakes my parents have. You will lose your children this way.