Do you think parents are always right?

[lilmissnisi]

I need your opinion as well as advice here. I really have to explain to you in full detail. I just had surgery in my mouth but I'm able to walk and make food. I asked my mum if she could make me some juice and she said yeah after she eats. ok so she ate her lunch and because I couldn't wait any longer I thought I'd make it myself. Then I made it wrong. She then shouted at me for making it wrong and putting too much sugar in it and that I shouldn't have pressed the on button too long or it will brake the blender. I lunged at her saying fine, you do it then and ended up shouting at her as well. She had said that she would make it for me after she ate. I then started crying upstairs in my room and we had a talk. I told her that there was no need to shout at me as she could have said it gently as I never used the blender before. She said that when there's something wrong she shouts and that's the way she is. She said that I disrespected her by shouting at her and that she's my mum but then she was the one that shouted at me first. So she can shout at me but I can't shout at her. I just can't react calmly when someone shouts at me. it gets me more angry. Do you think we're both in the wrong? thanks

[Mamfy]

My parents don't like it when I shout back at them (if I do) because, them being the older one, they want to have the control and the respect, therefore they don't like anyone answering them back or shouting back at them.

At the end of the day, the parents have brought uyou up, and 99% of the time, they do know best. It's just a small minority of times that they don't :)

[lilmissnisi]

i guess you're right about that,

i think that if we all talk nicely to one and another everyone would be happy. i think that because we're younger we're more naive, which is true but they should respect our opinions as well.

[Mamfy]

True. But they're only doing what is best for us you know.

[lilmissnisi]

you're right about that

[Luke]

I don't believe that parents do always know what's best for you. It's your life. You do what you want at the end of the day and make your own choices.

[Mamfy]

Yeah but the cxhances are, the parents have gone through what you are going through anyway, and so therefore want to help you cope iwth it in the best possible way.....

[~Wayne~]

Of course they're not always right, your a teenager of course you think your always right and they're not ;)

[allie89]

i've found instances when they are not right but they are most of the time

[Brianna.]

My parents are rarely right.

My mother never really experianced being a teenager. She had scoliosis when she was little, so she spent most of her childhood at a hospital, then her younger "teen" years in a bodycast. She became pregenant at 16 with my brother, and that was that.


She dosen't understand the idea of letting me learn on my own, and she forces her ideas on me most of the time.

I don't live with her anymore, but I do think that parents don't know all they think they do.

[Stephanie]

I think parents can be quite hyporcritical at times. They tell you to not do certain things and then they go and do that exact thing!! I think they should set a good example and not do the things they tell us not to.

My parents always lecture me on swearing and lying yet they swear and lie more then a lot of people I know!! It's so frustrating!!

And I don't think that parents always know what's best for their kids. Sometimes I wonder if they even remember what it was like to be a kid.

It doesn't matter how old we really are, they'll always see us as their "little baby" and so will always think that we aren't ready for certain things (eg. Going out to parties, drinking alcohol, have a boyfriend/girlfriend, catching a cab, etc) and so restrict us from doing them but we end up doing it behind their backs anyway...
But I don't know how general this is..this could just be with me and my parents but I don't know...

If I were to listen to my parents and not go to these parties and drink the alcohol, etc then I wouldn't have learnt a lot of lessons that have helped me today..I feel that parents that shield too much tend to haev kids that are either REALLY rebelious or completely clueless and dependent.

[Mamfy]

Parents say 'Do as I say, not as I do' LOL

Plus. TImes have changed since they went to school so they may not know as much about teenage life now as they think they do.