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How can I stop yelling at my parents?

I've already asked this question but I was just met with people calling me a brat and saying I need to be spanked, etc. I figured I'd ask again but with more detail this time.

I'm 15 a year old girl, so I don't know if it's just hormones. I've been yelling at my parents since I was 9 or 10 and I just can't seem to stop. I get pissed over really tiny, pathetic, and trivial things, like say my mom didn't give me the right amount of sugar in my tea or if I'm just mad in general I'll take it out on my parents. Immediately I feel really bad afterwards. My parents are such amazing people and they will do everything and anything for my happiness, and then this is how I repay them. I don't know what to do. It's not that I'm a brat. I'm spoiled, but I am thankful and appreciative. I just can't show it. Please help me stop yelling at them. I love them so much and I don't want to hurt them anymore. I'm actually crying :'(

All my childhood my dad was almost never home, always on travel. When he was home he'd be really stressed out and he'd yell at me and slap me and my brother a lot. Do you think this has something to do with it?

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  • 6 years ago

    While I appreciate that this is a serious question concerning an issue that is rightly important to you, we older types often wish we had not taken everything and everyone (including ourselves) QUITE so very seriously during our short teenage years, so be cool, use humour and your natural warmth (we all have it, but some are frightened to show it). These years are a period of emotional change and discovery – so much changes! We can’t avoid changing, but we CAN make decisions about which direction we wish to go in. The important things are to develop self respect and emotional self sufficiency (i.e. not relying too much on someone else for our happiness) and to work on our values and qualities such as integrity and respect for ourselves and others: absolutely everyone has things about them you don’t know about. Also ensure that you have no unnecessary fear (False Evidence Appearing Real!). We CAN decide and plan about our directions by practising in our minds the kind of person we wish and intend to be. Especially first and last thing in the day when the subconscious is most accepting of your conscious thoughts. (So avoid negative t.v., video games, etc., especially at night). 

    Life is full of ups and downs, isn't it. The trick is to take charge of your emotions, and not to allow yourself to get too high or too low. Some people find this easier than others. 

    People tend to respect those who walk tall, whatever their height, so always ensure you have a straight back, whether sitting, standing or walking. This also helps our self esteem. 

    Life tends to go in seven year cycles: infancy till seven, childhood to fourteen and adulthood around 21. Naturally people vary, and the stages merge into each other like the seasons do, but it continues to an extent: many women are not too mature until late 20s and a lot of men don’t even start to grow up until their mid thirties (I was one!).  Actually Judge Judy said recently their forties!

    All parents have been teenagers of course, and can be taken back to their teenage feelings with genuine interest and positivity on your part. That said, no one person can ever completely understand another (except identical twins, perhaps): we all come from slightly different places and have different experiences of and takes on life. Hence nobody can judge us with any accuracy. 

    Remember: adolescents’ emotions are in a state of flux and constantly changing – some more than others, obviously. 

    Here are some general suggestions I make to younger teens in case you might get some helpful ideas from them. Ask to have a serious discussion with your parents about how they see things panning out in the coming months and years. It needs to be fairly rational, so if one of you becomes too emotional (e.g. angry) it would be best to time out and try again another time. Prepare in advance what you would like to say and ask: write a plan, even. 

    As you reach each birthday, for example, or each new school year, what rights, freedoms and responsibilities will you have? Chores, pocket money, curfews, dating, etc. will all come into it, obviously. You can't really expect something for nothing, so think about what you can put into the family and household as part of your negotiations as to what you can get. 

    If you are to grow into a responsible adult, it must be a gradual process: if they keep you wrapped up in cotton wool and then suddenly let you out of the box at eighteen, you won't have enough experience to know how to handle it. 

    That said, your parent(s) is/are responsible for your safety and welfare during this time: no doubt they love you and they themselves have the experiences you don't yet. Seeing things on t.v. and hearing your friends' (exaggerated?) stories aren't quite the same. 

    If they don't want to do this, ask them if they will please consider a plan and talk again in a week or so. All plans need to be a little flexible, as unexpected things can happen, of course. 

    Hopefully this will show that you have a maturing attitude to your family and your life. 

    Good Luck!

  • 6 years ago

    Yes, your father's example can have had an influence on your behavior, but the most important factor is diet. Sugar and food colors especially cause us to get hyper. If you care enough to change your diet, you could start by studying about healthy living at sharecare.com or find out about holistic diet in an Internet search. You could help your whole family to become healthier, and as you become healthier, you will be able to inspire the rest of your family to join you.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    If you respect your parents for everything they try to do for you, you won't yell at them. Family counseling might help.

  • cody
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    It is possible a combo of emotions and hormones as well as stress/concentrating? It may be a smal factor but listen. When mom tries to talk to me about stupid stuff and im focusing on something like my depression or careing about ppl i get snappy and i dont like it either. God is testing us to see if we can care about e eryone purely love god and love good people who care. I thought i was strong in careing but it seems if things are takwn from me i get bratty. It is as hard for a rich person to go to heaven as for a camel to go thru a needle head so i learned that this is true. Unless my heart is strong as infinity in carei g and moms in charge of the money i cant be rich and as strong as god wants.if u ned to talk or ned motivation ocasionaly camaro33125cody@gmail.com but please dont ever share names or cities etc online its dangerous. Aside from a job or whatever where confidentiality is ensured:)

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hi I know I answered your other question and don't pay attention to those other idiots on your other question. Besides I took care of the one who told you that you should be spanked. Anyway on this question I think @Coach Simon gave you really amazing advice here and in my opinion is best answer here. But again for me I told you on your last question to please don't cry. (Now I'm crying cause I don't like seeing you cry and I don't want you crying) Please stop crying for me Please? I don't like my friends to cry :'( Also I sent you a card :) Chahg Sahmayahch Shahnah Tovah Le Aht Veh Kol Meeshpahchah Shelahch :) :) :)

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You need to go talk to someone because what you are doing to them is called abuse. Don't know if you are physical with them BUT you are mentally abusive.! You need help if not for you at least do it for them.

  • 6 years ago

    go see a psychiatrist to get some meds so you calm down

  • 6 years ago

    what he said n buy a I pod or somthing

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