currypuff girls and powerpuff boy

Last night chatted with Nikki =P Knew that she has been feeling depressed recently, but I didn't push her to tell me. I feel that if a person wants to tell you his/her problem, he/she will do so without you prompting. So yesterday she finally burped it out.

She claimed she has been crying quite frequently recently, both openly and secretly. She seems to hate everything around her, classmates, friends, school, family. Family... her mother would start every conversation by scolding her, which sounds quite ridiculous. It is like, her mother is unhappy about the grandparents (they live together), so end up she scolds Nikki to vent her displeasure, something like say Nikki whole day does nothing but only knows how to eat.. which is indirectly accusing Nikki's grandparents. In Chinese idiom it's called 指桑骂槐, which means pointing at Tree A to scold Tree B. Then she also complains that she's always called to do household chore, etc etc. It takes 2 hands to clap, and anyway Nikki herself seems to be problematic as well, so..... am I supposed to feel glad(of myself)?

But at least she felt much better after showing me on webcam doing stupid actions and showing off herself with contact lenses. Guess once in a while we need to do silly things to destress ourselves. Hmm at least this time round it was me who said I've enough of seeing her on webcam instead of she wanting to end the webcam connection.

Next, chatted with Stephanie. She also has some family politics. Can't understand why children nowadays must be involved or dragged into adults' business. It is like Adult A has something against Adult B, why must Child A tell Child B that Child B's father/mother (ie Adult B) is not right? This is not called maturity, this is like kids roleplaying adults in kindergarten. I always think that children should stay out of adult's business. No, correction, children should know what to interfere and what not to.

I feel quite basket now, first telling Nikki to follow traditional values (I think she doesn't show respect to elders), then told Stephanie to think about which traditional values are logical and which are not. Hmm, maybe that's the difference between dealing with high school kid and university student.