A Little White Lie

Everyone lies, no one is perfect and does everything right. But most of the time, they are just little lies to protect you or someone else. All parents do this to protect their family or to just make your kids listen. My parents technically didnt lie to me; they just didnt tell me at all to keep me out of the bad situation, they told me what I needed to know, and that was it. A couple years back, the business my dad had worked at since he was 18 went out of operation, and my dad had no idea what to do next.  My parents had not told my sisters or me yet, but I overheard someone talk to my mom about what had happened, so I was the first of us to know. After I brought this up to my mom, she sat us all down at home and told us the business what closing and another was stepping in. My dad refused to work for them, so he was going to work all of the last things the job needed him to do; then, he was going to find something new. After this happened, we knew we weren't going to be able to be spending a lot of money on unnecessary things and just had to start saving a lot more. My parents never wanted to make us feel like we didnt have enough money or couldn't do things because we are constantly in sports and that costs a lot. We went through phases that my sisters and I could tell were really hard, and we truly didn't know what to do, but my dad got a job as a truck driver. He was gone a lot, but we needed the money that it was worth it. Once my senior year came around, I was helping pay my sports fees, and my dad stopped truck driving to do farming with a buddy that would pay him what we needed. Through this whole time, I always knew we weren't in an amazing money position, but we were still stable because of my mom's job, and the only thing I was ever asked to do is if I wanted to paly two travel sports I had to help pay. Little did I know when through this time my parents were so worried we almost had to sell our house. If my parents wouldn't have "leid " to me, I do not know how I would have responded to this event.