What are some of the best movies that an 18-year-old must watch?
18 is an ideal time to start growing niche tastes in particular movie genres. The best thing about movies is, they kindaa serve as a simulation of various types of lives you will go on to live; albeit with a touch of exaggeration. The following list serves as a compilation of the best movies listed under their genres:ACTION/THRILLER:ArgoCaptain PhillipsInglorious BasterdsL.A. ConfidentialRockyThe Usual SuspectsThe Godfather TriologyThe IllusionistThe PrestigeNow You See MeZodiacThe GameCOMEDY:Pulp FictionGroundhog DayTedBeing John MalkovichDon JonHorrible BossesGrown UpsThe Big LebowskiThe Grand Budapest HotelBoratThe DictatorHorrible BossesForrest GumpDOCUMENTARIES:Citizen FourInside JobThe Pirate Bay, AFKLife ItselfDRAMA:Cast AwayJerry MaguireThe Social NetworkGlengarry Glen RossCasinoHerInto The WildHugoIts Kind Of a Funny StoryLost in TranslationMoney BallPursuit of Happiness12 Angry MenTo Kill a MockingbirdThe InternshipEPIC:GladiatorSaving Private RyanSchindler's ListSCI-FI:Star WarsStar TrekLooperSuper 8PrimerAlthough Pyschological Thrillers are my favourite sub genre, I'm not sure whether an 18 year old will enjoy it. Nevertheless, you'd try watching a few:Psychological Thrillers:SevenCubeDonnie DarkoMr NobodyInceptionMulholland DriveShutter IslandThe MachinistJacob's Ladder12 MonkeysMementoInsomniacPiThe FountainSome amazing directors you should devoutly followe are David Fincher, David Lynch, Martin Scorcese, Chris Nolan, Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarantino (When you grow a lil older))I have listed only a few movies in each genre and i hope they will serve as a marker to you watching many more as you grow older.
I found inappropriate photos on my 14 year old daughter’s phone. What should I do?
I’ve been in your daughters shoes, and trust me, it wasn’t fun. The LAST thing you should do is degrade her. She’s obviously going through something and teenage girls take things like that to heart. And I’m not saying you shouldn’t discipline her, cause if you don’t, she’ll just do it again. Depending on how bad it is, I’d say six months to a year. But DO NOT neglect her in any way. Spend time with her, bring her places with you. Just don’t leave her alone. She’ll get lonely and she’ll try and find a way to come in contact with who she (possibly) sent them to. Bring her phone to wherever you have a plan with to see if she sent them. And if she DID send them to somebody and you don’t know who it is. Get on a website to see who’s number it is. It could possibly be a pedophile and/or sex offender. And I’m not saying this to offend you in any way. It’s happened to me and I’d hate for anyone else to go through that. Don’t do your motherly voice on her, either. She’ll feel intimidated and not want to open up. Obviously, be stern, and you might have to try and DIG out answers cause she is probably ashamed and scared. Give her a scary talk about sex trafficking cause it IS real and it DOES happen. Give her some time to think about that (she probably will before bed) and tell her maybe tomorrow that you still love her. Now, every parents instinct is to yell at them for things like that, and my parents made the same mistake. Of course I knew they loved me but they snapped, which was understandable. Just try and control your emotions but don’t forget to scare her enough to open up! Hope I helped a bit!
Should I let my 15-year-old daughter come home late at nights?
15 year old girls will find their mischief in whatever ways they can. I had a curfew the entire time I lived at home, all the way until I moved out at 23. It was 9pm until I was 16 or 17, then it was 10pm until I was 18, then from 18–20 it was 11pm, then ultimately I negotiated to a midnight curfew. The curfew only mattered when I didn’t spent the night out, but it truly did keep me out of more trouble than I would have got in had I not had the curfew.Growing up my friends always teased me that I was the only one that ever had a curfew, but you know what? As a mother now, I’m glad. Sure I missed a lot of ‘fun’, but I have a lot less regrets now as an adult than I would have if I had more freedom as a kid.Teenagers are big kids that make stupid decisions because they think nothing is ever going to matter. They think they know enough, but there’s no way that they can have the perspective that even a 25 year old has, let alone someone in their 30s or 40s. We make enough mistakes in our 20s that we really don’t need the extra time in our teens, too!10pm was a really good curfew for me to have. Any restaurants, stores, movie theaters, etc all cater to the world before 10pm, there’s really no reason to be out after that unless you’re a legally drinking adult at a bar or nightclub. Let’s just be real, no teenager has any business doing ANYTHING after 10pm, except just plain not ready to go home and end the night, but all good things have to end eventually.
I caught my daughter in bed with her BF. They are 18. What should I do?
Well, let me tell you a story to illustrate the German point of view of teenagers having sex in their parents houses.A few years ago I was working on a project in Egypt for a few months. Our project manager came to the country every few weeks to straighten our local subsidiary out a bit. She was a divorced woman in her late forties and mother to two daughters (13 and 16). The Egyptian manager drove us home one day and invited the lady to bring her daughters next time to visit the pyramids. The project manager explained to him, that his younger daughter is not really interested in history and that her older daughter is not really interested in traveling since she was freshly in love and it was almost impossile to seperate her from her BF (18 btw, maybe statutory rape in the USA, I do not know).The Egyptian looked at her in astonishment. A 16 year old girl being married would be ok with him, but he did not really understand what a 16 year old girl would do with a boyfriend, so he started to investigate a bit.‘What do you mean …. boyfriend?” - “Well, my daughter has a friend and it is a boy.” - “And what do they do? Do they see each other?” - “Well, of cause…. he visits us quite often.” - “Oh, you mean he visits you and then they talk to each other in your living room or what?” - “Why would they sit with an old woman like me in the living room, she has her own room.” - “Oh…… but what if…. well….. I mean….” - “Yes?” - “Well…. ok, when does he usually show up?” - “Usually for dinner.” - “Ah, ok. And then he leaves?” - “no.” - So when does he usually leave?” - “Usually after breakfast……….”___________________________________________________________She later explained that the only problem was not with the 16 year old girl but with the 13 year old girl. Since their dad had moved out years ago she was not accustomed to the possibility of meeting some man in the hall at night when she went to toilet.BF/GF sleepovers are pretty common at age 15 or 16 in Germany. Better home and safe than on some back seat of some car under some bridge in some dark corner.