Not sure how to respond to my friend's rant..what do you think I should say?

Here is her message:


Apparently I was destined to be a failure in life. I'm tired of being reminded of my mistakes. It's all I ever hear from my mom. Both my parents won't stop talking to me about music theory 2 and how I didn't pass it twice. My dad won't stop bothering me about scholarships for next year, but I can't do anything about that. I need to wait until they send me a letter saying I've been approved. My mom made me upset again today, and I tried to talk to her. I told her that I wished she'd think about my happiness once in a while. I asked her, do you think I'm happy? I said, no, I'm not happy, I answered it for her. She won't stop talking about school and how the times that I get up is ridiculous, and how it's stupid to not be practicing piano, how I'm lazy, how maybe I should quit piano then. I tried to ask her, do you care about my happiness, she said of course, I said really. Then she starts up again about the piano and school. One track mind, that's all she caresNot sure how to respond to my friend's rant..what do you think I should say?
Tell her that she is not destined for failure, and she is defintiely successful at life. Say that her parents are wrong for being like that and it only reflects upon their own failures, not hers.


Also, make sure you mention a few of her positive traits and compliment them, tying them together with how she is a success at life(say, ';Or look at how great you are at writing? No failure at life could do that';).





Good luck, dude.





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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus鈥?/a>Not sure how to respond to my friend's rant..what do you think I should say?
u should tell her 2 sit her parents down and 2 tell them how she feels she has obviously talked 2 them individually but she needs 2 have them sit down and talk. them they may understand she need 2 tell them how she feels bout them talking about piano, school, how lazy she is, and reminding her of her mistakes. good luck! :)
A possible reply:





';Your parents are oppressive so don't take them so seriously. You won't be a failure for not passing Music Theory 2. You'll never need that in life. They're just nagging, think of it as blah, blah, blah and not words. Hope you feel better.';
Just say ';that sucks man.';
tell her that her parents r trying to care for her and they're just frustrated. she just needs to spend sometime away from home so she and her parents can cool off. maybe go to your house?
You kids don't have any idea of what real problems are.
Tell her no matter what happens, ur gonna be there for her. It seems that shes mad at her parents so reminding her of how good her parents are wont be that helful at the moment. U are her friend and then well if u can, can u please see her in person and try to comfort her by asking her out like u wanted to buy something and ask her if she can help u choose some stuffs for u etc. She needs time to realize that her parents really love her and theyre just doing it for her future but dont tell her that for now. Wait when u see her smile and little by little make her realize that shes a lucky girl for having loving parents.