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My mom dissagrees AGAIN!
So I keep asking my mom if I can get peirced again or tattoed and she says no and I can live with that. Then today I find out we are moving this summer and she is changing my whole life while doing so and then I decied I was going to be a vegetarian [I have been thinkin about it for months] and I asked her about it and she said no. I didnt get it I asked her why and she said that she doesnt think I should. I think it's stupid that she is chaning my life without even asking me or me haing a say in it and I want to do one thing because I really cant stand hurting an animal anymore and she disagrees.
How can I get her to ler me do more things?
and how do I get her to agree to letting me be a vegetarian?
I mean you only live once and tommarow you may not be here
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You are the teenager living at home and she is the parent.
That's as complicated as it gets.
Now, you can't get a tattoo or piercing legally without parental approval, but if you don't want to eat meat, go right ahead. She can't force feed you meat, and if you are willing to buy some of your own food and/or go hungry when she makes meat for dinner... go nuts.
Like all life choices you must make compromises and be willing to take responsibility for your own decisions. The decision to become a vegetarian might mean buying some of your own food and occasionally going hungry. That is okay. Your mom is required to feed you, but not to feed you precisely what you want all the time.
I imagine if you take vegetarianism seriously enough for a while to invest in preparing your own food and picking some of it up, your mother will be more welcoming to the idea.
You might not be alive tomorrow, however, if you ARE, she will still be your mother and you will still be the teenager living in HER home. If you live to see enough tomorrows, you’ll be able to live in your own place, and do basically whatever the hell you want. But that isn’t going to happen today, and probably not next week, so the best thing you can do, is rather then arguing with your mom, just go ahead and DO what doesn’t break any rules or laws. Eating meat isn’t a rule and your mom will probably have a hard time making it one, because that just doesn’t make sense.
As a teen you often a have a HUGE sense of entitlement, and that’s cool enough but you’ve got to recognize that the adults in your life actually have many more ACTUAL entitlements then you do. They can vote. They can work. They can own homes and sue and be sued! They can drive and do a whole bunch of stuff you can’t do yet. If your mom wants to move, and take you with her, she’s entitled to that. If she doesn’t want to prepare vegetarian foods, she’s entitled to that.
But that doesn’t mean you don’t have any right at all. If you don’t want to eat meat, you are total entitled to that! Just don’t eat it. Don’t make a big deal of it. Just say “No thank you” and move on with your day.
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