How did YOU tell your parents?

[polizei]

As my mom is going into her room to goto sleep....

Me: Mom, I joined the Marines, I leave in January.

Mom: No.

*door closes*

took her a week or two to realize I wasn't joking. haha.

Are you leaving NEXT January? Why don't you have a poolee tag?

[DGardner]

Are you leaving NEXT January? Why don't you have a poolee tag?

Nah.. this was back in November 2007.

[DocGreek]

"MEN".....when I joined the Navy, back in 1966, I was in the DEP TOO!! 90 DAYS!! I really enjoyed Navy "Boot Camp", LOT'S OF FOOLISHNESS, LOT'S OF LAUGHTER!!!!......Best of LUCK to you ALL!!!.....Doc Greek

[Donut Brigade]

Lot's of folding, too. haha

[zrkl05]

Interesting topic here. I didn't have to deal with convincing my parents to let me enlist, my obstacle was my wife. It took two years but we're in talks with the recruiter now and working on getting a damned bipolar diagnosis out of my way. I swear it's a misdiagnosis and I'll fight to the death for the waiver to prove it. The Corps is what I dream of at night...my wife got sick of me talking about wanting to be a Marine and enlisting. Oddly enough...it took her dad, an old Army soldier, to convince her to let me join the Marines.

As far as telling my parents, it was simply,
Me-"Where's my birth certificate, Social Security Card, and my diploma?"
Mom-"Why?"
(Recruiter comes around the corner from hiding in the hall like I asked him to)
Recruiter-"Because I need them to finish the paperwork."
Mom-Just stands there completely dumbfounded.

The look on her face was priceless...

[GavinL91]

Man,when i told my folks about me wanting to join,they had different reactions.My mom acted like any mom would act and got all worried and said"your not sticking to your football"and then she said,"You be sent to iraq,and i cant live with that".My dad reply was the worst,"Yeah be stupid and join the Marines,they'll have your ass sleepin in the field and out there on the front lines gettin shot at".

After all that,DEPing after football season,joining after i get my diploma.

[MarinesFTW]

I preaty much told them how it was.. Im enlisting when I am done with my junior year.. You sign or ill just enlist when I turn 18 you'll never know I did it and I wont tell you when I ship.. There signing soon

[bennyklien]

I am 25 and I don't see my parents acting any differently.

[dribbler]

I told my mom there was the possibility of me joining the Marines, and she cried. Later on when i told her i was gonna join for sure, she said i had to talk with my dad first. He **** bricks. Doesnt want me to join the military at all, especially the Marines, and especially infantry. My mom and step-dad and grandparents are all on board, not too sure about my dad. just suck it up and tell them. its not like you did something wrong, and its your life and your decision. just be upfront and real with 'em.

[Pandza03]

Well I'm still very young but I broke it to my mom when I was 13. She sees it as a phase I'm going through and now almost 16, she's starting to believe me more. Being born during the Bosnian war, she's terrified but she supports me regardless of what happened to us in Bosnia and she is ok with my choice of Infantry. She's yet to speak with the recruiter. (SSGT Asafo)

[FirstGen]

Called my mom at the recruiters office before I left for MEPS.

Told my mom I was ensliting in the Marine Corps.

That was that.

[GSEMarine94]

As far as telling my parents, it was simply,
Me-"Where's my birth certificate, Social Security Card, and my diploma?"
Mom-"Why?"
(Recruiter comes around the corner from hiding in the hall like I asked him to)
Recruiter-"Because I need them to finish the paperwork."
Mom-Just stands there completely dumbfounded.

The look on her face was priceless...

Did you try that same setup on your wife?

[Zaiik]

was pretty much "hey I'm joining the Marine Corps"

With an Air Force dad and an alarmist overprotective mother, it went over very well.

Didn't really care though, not like they can stop me or anything.

[Hartford]

I wrote up a note and left it out for them to read as I snuck out at 4:30AM to go to MEPS.

Worst idea EVER. They freaked and were balling their eyes out supposedly until I got home that night at about 6PM. FML.

[Patriot34]

Well first I called my dad at work when I got wind that I could join no problem (medical history DQ'd me from Navy). I jumped up and down, ran around my house yelling like a maniac. Then when my dad came home he came and found me and said,
*actaul converstaion*
"You're telling your mother."
"Sh*t. Do you support me?"
"Yea, but I ain't associating with you when you tell your mother this."
"Sh*t."
"I'm not even gonna be in the house."
*He leaves.
My mother's freaking out about this whole thing. I mean she is DEAD set against this. Any ideas to get me shipped at 17?