Proms and graduations seem to be the time of year when it happens. Inevitably, someone in school dies in a car wreck. Chances are someday we will all know how it feels to be the one's left behind, but what if it was your child instead of one of their classmates? This happened to a friend of mine. She didn't have an open relationship with her parents. They would have grounded her for months just for being with someone who was drinking alcohol. So, to her, getting into the car was her only choice. Luckily, she lived but shattered her pelvis bone. The other passenger wasn't so lucky. He crawled about ten feet trying to get help before he died of internal injuries.

These bars of isolation, put firmly into place by the Lisbon mother, are what creates this aura of mystery around these girls. Her strict enforcement of the conservative lifestyle only adds fuel to the girl's newfound sexual fire. The girls are at that age were they only want to discover the unknown. And for the Lisbon's, the unknown is the opposite sex. The daughters refuse to go down that path their mother is so adamant about, and instead, find a way to remain forever young and free from their mother's influence by killing themselves.

I'm also not suggesting an anarchy system of parenting where you allow your child to do what ever he or she wants. I'm simply saying there should be a more open relationship with better communication between parents and children. The bottom line is no matter how strict or protected a parent is the child will do what they want whether they have permission to or not and telling them they can't do something will only increase their want to do it. However if you take a more logical approach and try to explain, why you would do or not do something, then it might have more of an impact on your child than just simply saying no and leaving it at that. If Mary, Therese, Lux, Bonnie, and Cecelia had felt that they could talk things through with their parents and had felt as though they had a voice in the way they were being raised then the ending of the movie might not have been a tragic one. And had my friend thought she had another option then she could have avoided making a bad decision that changed her life.

I have this theory about parenting that I have come to believe in only through the way my parents raised my older sister and me. My parents were always fairly relaxed. No matter what it was, they always left the final decision up to us to make, but not after putting their two cents in first. This made me feel as though I had some say in my own life. It also took away some of my need to rebel because I knew if I really wanted to, my parents would understand my decision. In other words, because I had the freedom to do what ever I wanted to do, th

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