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My parents won't leave me alone and controls my life?
So I probably sound like the typical teenager, but I really need help. I am 14. My mom is the worst for this, she grounds me for every single thing I do wrong. I get basically all A's with the occasional B and on my last report card I got a B- and she freaked out at me. She's like that's not acceptable. Anyway, she has the stupidest rules. I JUST got a new phone on Friday and on Saturday she comes into my room at 9 o'clock and says shes taking my phone for the night. I didn't do anything that's just her new rule or something. Even my dad disagreed with it and she yelled at him. I don't understand. Every five minutes she yells what are you doing and if Im not studying or playing guitar she screams at how im so unproductive. Half the time I'm treated like a little kid the other half its like im old enough to pay the bills. I have to clean my whole house, literally. I have barely any time for myself. I have to pay for clothes, my phone, etc and I don't even have a job yet. Apparently I'm on the computer too much so she says I can only be on for 30 minutes a day. Im so tired of our fighting I just want to sit in my room with my phone and computer in peace without my room being barged into for not doing something perfectly. My mom slaps me if shes close enough to. I have NEVER done anything bad like snuck out or lied about something, did drugs etc. A couple months ago I had this fight with my friend and she went onto my facebook and read my messages. Then she changed my password so now the only way I can get on is with her entering it and she being right next to me. How is that teaching me how Im gonna live life when I move out. She has her eye on me every minute. I don't see how I cant be trusted. How am I supposed to be respectful if my parents don't even respect me? How do I get them to lay off?
7 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
Rebel from her. You need to take risks and have fun. Man if my mum was like that I wouldn't bloody come home. I'd stay late after school and when she goes off at me I wouldnt care cos it would be the same as any other time I did the right thing
- barthebearLv 79 years ago
You only have four more years of this and then you can move out. Except for the slapping which is humiliatiing, I see it a different way since I know that being a parent is difficult. She is worrried you will not get enough sleep if you keep your phone. Sleep is crucial at your age and most teens do not get enough. She is worried something will happen to you so realize that her intentions are good when she changed password.When you go to get a job, prospective employers look at your facebook page. If they see a fight they will not hire you. If you want to move away from your mom, now is the time to start working on your career since you will need a paycheck to pay for your apartment.
Try to figure out a way to calmly and in a mature manner discuss it with her. Take a week or two and list the things you do for her ( just as you have here for example cleaning) and then list what you dont do wrong ( drugs) then list you would like to do ( not have to endure slapping). Invite your father to listen if you like. Make it at an offsite if possible ( in other words in a park or a starbucks or somewhere neutral that is not her territory. It will be more monumental that way. ) and ask her beforehand if you could please make an appointment to meet with her. Dont tellher if she asks ahead of time what it is about since she will end up getting mad and not listening as she does housework. It has to be something different and hopefully out of the house. You write at the end your parents ( both) dont respect you but then earlier you write that even your father disagrees? So maybe straighten that out in your mind first. I am very sorry for you but you are quite young and someday you will understand how hard it is to be a parent. But she should NOT slap you.
- 9 years ago
Wow this is a hard one. It is probably that your mum knows that one day you will leave and she doesn't know how to handle it. But for the paying for your own clothes, everyone does that. Come on you did not say any good things about her. Hasn't there ever been a time when she supported you, helped you in anyway? Honestly, there are those moments where you to have bonded. You did not say you had any problem with your dad, maybe you could ask him to talk to her. And for the report card she probably was just looking at those statistics about how countries are doing better then America, everyone gets paranoid after reading those.
- BobbyLv 49 years ago
Dear Emzaa;
Your a great kid and many parents would love to have you as their child, it's a shame your mother is treating like this, it's really sad.
Now here's a possible reason, she may be under stress, like not being intimate enough with your dad, or it could be money problems, at any rate since your 14, outside of talking to your dad and trying to find a solution, which he may have, I can't say much that's going to help. Aside from just don't talk back, since that will only make things worse.
You might try asking your mother what's troubling her, because something sure is, this is just not normal behavior.
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- heitschmidtLv 45 years ago
i trust undesirable on your relatives and for you. As on your sister i'm uncertain on how i trust. She had a chance for a fantastic life she blew it. She had fairly some possibilities like even as she stayed which includes your dad and she grew to grow to be undesirable back. She basically would not look mentally reliable to me. i don't recognize of everybody that ought to take all this abuse and nevertheless be there. After the first time she changed into damage she must have basically left yet no she stayed. i don't recognize in case your sister must be helped or no longer. i don't recognize if she needs help. She appears to be like playing this soreness. She even gave up her relatives for the soreness. i recognize that someone ought to document this to the police and to a toddler care corporation. She ought to no longer save that child, she isn't able to raising a toddler she will't guard herself. i do not imagine that any individuals of her relatives ought to guard the toddler both because she will do some thing in her ability to scouse borrow it away or to damage it to spite all of you. i don't recognize what else to assert to this. i don't recognize a thanks to assist your sister and prefer you I dislike the bf and that i imagine he must be thrown in detention center and throw away the major.
- 9 years ago
Be as bad as you can. What's the worst she can do? If she takes things from you, take them back. If she slaps you, threaten to call social services for child abuse. Do everything to show her who's boss!
- gypsy04967Lv 49 years ago
Sounds like you have an excellent mother and you should be grateful she cares so much!