I am a 15 year old girl, and I feel that my parents don't understand ANYTHING I do, or want.
I have not been to the mall with my friends EVER. My parents do not let me go, and they say it is because they aren't going to let me be like other teens roaming all around the place. I only want to hang out with my friends and be a normal teenager. I have a crappy phone plan wich gives me 50 mintues and texts per month, so my social life has gone down the drain. They are constatntly down muy throat about everything I want to do. I need some advice please! I need to know how to let my parents see my view and just let me be a teenager...
Additional info, added Sunday January 1 2012, 11:41 am: Oh, and when I try to sit down with my parents and talk about it, they say they aren,t going to listen to BS. Sometimes I want to talk about this issue, an sometimes I don't. When I don't want to talk, they try and force me... And get really angry if I don't tell them why I am mad... Uggghh!. Want to answer more questions in the Relationships category? Maybe give some free advice about: Families? lightoftruth923 answered Monday January 2 2012, 3:58 am: I have friends that are in this situation. One girl has parents that won't let them have a phone at all or go anywhere at all.
I think you have done all that you can do. I mean you can't force them to let you do anything and talking was the only way and they don't want to listen to it.
I guess they're just being over protective parents that want their child to not go around the mall because they think they will get into trouble and I'm pretty sure they know about stupid things that are done through text messaging and all that.
You're probably not one of those kids who will get into all kinds of trouble with phone and going out but they're just being protective.
I guess the next best thing is to reason with them. Maybe compromise with your phone and say that they can check your messages at the end of the day or you can tell them who you are texting and which people you are allowed to text.
Then with the mall, ask if you can go for maybe like 2 hours and see how they go from there.
If they still don't listen, you're probably just gonna have to go with what they say until you're older. [ lightoftruth923's advice column | Ask lightoftruth923 A Question ]
secretsx02 answered Sunday January 1 2012, 3:29 pm: - i say that if you cant talk to your parents about whats going on then you should try to talk to someone else , maybe a counsiler that can help you over come you fear/anger to talk to them . but your parents just want the best for you , maybe when you get older things will change , but for now just go with the flow , hope this helps <3 [ secretsx02's advice column | Ask secretsx02 A Question ]
D1ana17 answered Sunday January 1 2012, 1:00 pm: There's nothing you can do but talking with them. You have to talk and talk - until they listen. That's your only choice.
You have to explain to them, that you are after all, just a teenager - who wants to hang out with her friends.
So good luck with talikng to them - because really, that is all that you can do!
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