Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24252521-20171123044845/@comment-27320292-20180407170018

Philosophernoct wrote: Fine, let's hug.

I really want to explain this thing and mentality. Even If my grammar isn't that good or even If I'm not an English expert.

It is not hard to understand this, really. It's about life and reality. You can't earn and you can not achieve respect and attention just like that with sitting there or with goes and stealing stuffs. No, It's not how life works, even in the books and literature. You should try it. You must try to earn respect and getting attention from people. Piper's mentality, again, sorry but just plain stupid and shallow, because her thinking-style is stupid. She goes and steal things, which, she thoughts that this can be usefull and finally she can get attention from her dad. But when it comes to simple logic, yes, she gets attention from her dad, but in a negative way. The negative way is, in that case, Tristan's opinions about Piper. He, normally, is starting to think that Piper is just like another shallow and stupid teenage girl, who doesn't do anything, who doesn't do any real thing that can be considered as useful and a good thing. He normallly, of course, starting to think that Piper is a little whining brat. I'm sorry, but it is how it life works, my friend. If you go and starting to steal things just like Piper, in reality, do you really think that your family/dad starting to respect you? Or do they starting to care about your, sorry, but daddy issues and teenage problems? Here is the reality-wise answer; No. They don't and they will not.

And again, my friend, you must try, If you want positive attention and respect from people, even If those people are your family members or your dad. In a perfect world, yes, doing good in academics and other things would earn you respect. That's nice and all, but the books are not trying to emulate a perfect world. The books make it pretty clear that Tristan is letting Jane parent Piper more than he is himself.

He did have respect and gave attention to his daughter, but that was before he got into his acting career and distanced himself. This was not typical "he has a busy job so he has to be away a lot" but "I am purposefully avoiding my daughter, sure, I'll take her to places a few times but I won't be there enough to actually have my daughter trust me."

And he doesn't think of Piper as a whining little brat because SHE'S HIS DAUGHTER, not his student or something. He's not going to think his daughter is a stupid teenage girl, parents don't or should NOT think like that! He loses trust in her, yeah, but if he's thinking that she's a stupid teenager then I seriously question whether he should be a parent or not.

And he should care about her issues REGARDLESS. You are NOT fit to be a parent if you're not there for your kid and don't care about their issues. Why are you thinking Tristan should feel the way an adult acquaintance of Piper's would feel if they had to deal with her doing this? He's her parent, he should care about her issues. THAT IS HOW PROPER PARENTING WORKS.