Teen Advice: Dealing with Parents
This is the hardest time of your life.
When you are a teenager dealing with your parents are the worst. Your body is going through so many changes and you are feeling all grown and you don’t think you need your parents telling you what to do or how to do it.
To be honest with you after all the changes your body makes and the feeling you are all grown up. You are learning how to relate to your parents. You are learning about yourself and learning what you want.
Your parents may not like who you hang out with or some of the things you do. You as a teen you want to have fun and explore different things. Your parents may have gone through all the same things and want better for you.
You want to be heard and you want your parents to let you do things you want to do. You should try and see it through your parents eyes. This has helped me in many ways. As an adult you learn that you can’t always do everything you want to do. Even for adults it makes us mad.
Your parents are not the bad guys. They guest want you to be able to grow up and be adults. Some parents try to make it as easy as they can. Some parent just don’t care. If you have a parent who often tells you NO you are very lucky.
You may not see it yet but you as a teen are learning you can disagree with your parents. You may be hurt and feel you have no place in this world. The truth is you haven’t fond your place yet but you will.
Think about if what you may want to do is worth it or not. Look at your parents point of view as well. You are a teen. Enjoy life before you have to get out it to it.
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SharifaMcFarlane | Sep 10, 2010 | Reply
Good advice for teens. Conflict is inevitable but dealing with it properly will build skills that will help with new situations.
giftarist | Sep 10, 2010 | Reply
Good post, and really helpful for teens.
Ethics0006 | Sep 10, 2010 | Reply
Good Post
sandcastle | Sep 11, 2010 | Reply
Nice post for teens especially
Olive B. | Sep 11, 2010 | Reply
good advice, but its a little known fact teens actually like being told what to do…they just don’t like to admit it. nice post.
Jimmy Shilaho | Sep 12, 2010 | Reply
Sound advice.
queenofsarcasm | Sep 15, 2010 | Reply
Good advice. Advice is always hard to listen to when it’s something (like being civilised with parents) you may not necessarily feel like doing. This article is very well written.