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How to watch a TV show in secret
A few years ago (around 2012), I started watching a TV show called Modern Family. However, during one episode, one of the characters was only seen in their underwear, and my parents walked in the room and thought I was watching a porn channel and banned me from watching this show (they had heard me talk about it but only saw 1 episode before this themselves).Around August or September time this year, I realised the first 5 seasons were on demand. Feeling nostalgic, I downloaded some of the episodes and became a big fan of it, but my parents didn't know as they weren't in the room at that time. I decided to carry on watching this show in secret by only watching it on Fridays or Saturdays or both, since my parents are usually watching stuff in the back room on these days (The room I watch this show in is the front room)However, around late October, my dad started doing some stuff for work on his laptop in the front room. Luckily, he wasn't working in there on Saturdays, but he was on Fridays. Which meant I had to watch 4 episodes every Saturday rather than 2 on Friday and 2 on Saturday. I carried this on through November but I ended up staying up later than my parents sometimes. Then, in December I discovered a website with every episode on it so I watched a few episodes on the website, and then I got a media centre app called Kodi for Christmas, and watched some episodes on that. In January, my dad didn't work in the front room on any day, which meant I could watch as many episodes as I wanted. however since I only had two episodes, to watch until I got to the season 3 finale I watched one episode on the Friday, and one on the Saturday. I decided to wait until the next Friday to watch the finale, only to discover that my sister had broken the TV. I would have watched it on the website or on Kodi, but because it was the season finale, I wanted to watch it in the front room. Then, last week, when I asked my mom when she'd fix the TV, she said she'd have it fixed by the end of February. The only issue is that the week before that she'd moved the table in the front room to the other side of the room . The problem is part of the door of the front room is see through, and now you can see the Tv through the door , whereas previously you couldn't so now when the tv is fixed, I won't be able to watch this show anymore, because my parents will be annoyed. Plus, the way the table was before, I liked sitting on a chair and then putting my feet on the radiator, but the position it is in now, makes it impossible for me to reach my feet to the radiator.
Anyway, back to the point. How can I get my mom to fix the TV quicker?, and When the TV is fixed, how can I carry on watching the show in secret with the position of the table?
And also my mom is getting more strict with homework lately, so I might not have a chance to watch the show at all. Plus, even if my mom does realise it's an innocent show, or I tell her it's an innocent show, I'd still prefer to watch it in secret.
By 15 yr old male
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when it comes to ones parents and you are not yet an adult of 18 or older, it is best to not going around doing things in secret.
I took a parenting class long ago and one of the things taught was how to teach your older kids to teens how to 'appeal' to the parents. Parents often pass a judgement without having all the facts. I've been there, done that. But in wanting to be a better parent and also teach my kids some handy communicating skills, I taught them to ask if they could appeal a decision I or dad made. They had to provide us with more information so I could review my earlier decision and either change it or still keep it.
It is a good thing that they wanted to keep you from watching porn. If that is the only concern with this show and there is no other valid concerns on their part, you might want to appeal to them. After all, when you think of all the anxiety this is causing you to try to continue watching in secret, why torture yourself unnecessarily if they might give you the approval to watch it all you want, provided homework is done first as it should be.
I do not know what is the status of the household budget, and perhaps the tv is of a less importance to them or there just isn't money to repair it, or some other reason why. If these are the reasons the TV is not fixed, there really won't be any easy way to convince them to get it fixed or replaced sooner than later.
I am sure you only wanted to know how to keep this a secret but as a parent myself, I wouldn't recommend this. If you want them to give you lots of trust in the future, then being open and honest and handling this with them like an "adult" will get more positive results. As a teen, I gained my parents trust by being responsible and communicating with them well and so whenever I wanted to go hang out with friends or the church youth group events, I could take off and didn't have to check in by a certain time. We didnt have cells back then so calling parents wasn't always a possibility.
Lastly hon, even if you are in the right about the type of show this is, trying to watch it in secret without trying to discuss this further with them and getting them to randomly tune in to any past episodes to check it for themselves, is only going to come across badly to them. All they will think about is not that the show is okay afterall but that you went secretly behind their backs to watch it. And that is not the way to earn and build trust with your parents.
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