Ok ok last one I just want to get everything out of my system so things parents dont understand part 2! 1.Times have changed since they were teenagers. They may think you know what it’s like to be a teenager. I mean, they were one at one point in time, but things have changed and have become way more complicated and that’s extremely hard for parents to understand.
2.Teenagers want more responsibility. There are a huge number of students who just want to graduate high school and move on to the next chapter in their life.
3.We lose friends throughout school. Parents always bring up that friend you probably either can’t stand anymore, or just drifted apart from. They probably bring it up all the time whether they’re asking, “How’s so and-so?” or “Why don’t you talk to this person anymore?”. Quit bringing them up! What’s done is done and most likely, that person is not going to come back into our lives.
4.We want their attention. Even though we may not show it, we want them to be there for us. Sometimes, we even crave their attention. Whether it’s us asking how our day was, or cleaning something small around the house, we don’t always want our privacy. Sometimes we want you to invade it (to a certain extent).
5. They’re not always going to be the first person we come to when something happens. We’re teenagers at this point. We have a lot going on with high school or middle school and it’s hard. They are not always going to be the first person we come running to when things get bad. We have best friends we like to go to when we have issues we need to talk about.
6.Yes we are growing up and eventually, they have to accept that. At this point in life, we are just school kids who are dying to become adults. The last thing we want to hear is our parents telling us that we don’t understand yet, or that we’re not mature enough to do that yet.
7.Just because our friends do things you guys don’t approve of, doesn’t mean we follow in their footsteps. They’re afraid if we don’t hangout with “the right crowd”, we’ll end up doing bad things. It’s understandable for a parent to worry. If we come home acting the same as before we saw that particular friend, we’re not doing anything wrong. You shouldn’t be attacking us for what we’re not doing; that’s not fair to us.
That it im done no more venting unless I have to