dude I don't wanna know anything! I'm already being forced to choose a career at 14, I wanna put that off for as long as possible (I did say I know nothing....)
Just because teenagers expect adults to recognize that they know SOME things does not mean they think they know everything. My teacher had this poster and it always pissed me off. I've never thought I know everything, but I do know that my mother is a hypocrite, and acts like she knows everything... just because she's a mom.
I'm sorry it seems that way, but you don't know my mom. She's the kind of woman who, when my little sister asked her to roll her window up because there was sun shining directly on her and it was hot, my mom (whose window was closed so /she/ didn't have sun shining on her) locked the windows.
I know that I haven't had to deal with the stress of raising a child yet, and I don't know how that will ever effect me. I haven't had to support myself on my own yet, and I don't know what that's like. I know that things are hard for my mom, and I try my best to make things easier for her, but that doesn't change that she says one thing one day and something else the next. "Come talk to me if your brother is doing something he shouldn't" "Deal with him yourself". She yells all the time, and yes, I get that she's stressed, but she is also the one who made the decision to have three children and I feel like when someone makes that kind of a decision, especially after raising one child for 19
years, they know what they're getting into with another kid, and they should be prepared to handle it, not just yell every time anything goes slightly wrong or a kid misbehaves, especially since she yells at my sister for yelling.
Well i do know exactly what you are talking about because my mom is similar but i try not to complain because like u i know how stressed she is being seperated and all. However it is good that u arent arrogant about her issues but maybe dont use that lack of arrogance to say things like "she knew what she was getting into." The fact that u know about her issues should encourage you to go easy on her. I am a teenager also btw.
I do go easy on her, I do what she says, I watch my brother several days a week, supply much of my own food, and help out wherever I can, but I in turn expect her to know that I am a human being and deserve respect, as do other teenagers. I expect her to know that she's not perfect just because she happened to get knocked up and give birth, and she's not right about everything. I still love her very much, but that doesn't change the fact that she is a hypocrite - and maybe I'm one too. What I don't do is go easy on people who say things like "since you know everything, why don't you __". I know as well as those people that I don't know everything, but it seems to me that they think they do, and even if they don't, they're kind of acting like stuck up snobs.
Well i agree with you it is frustrating and teenagers do deserve some respect but honestly i don't blame them for saying that because of all the ways they provide for us. However they do need to realize that things have changed since they were kids and we arent the same people. You put up a good argument and showed u weren't arrogant and I applaud that. Its just something we are both going to have to deal with. Sorry if I was a nuisance.
You weren't, don't worry about it, but it's really not something I'm going to just deal with, which is why I post things like this. I do blame them for thinking that just because adults pay bills they know everything, because it leads a lot of kids to thinking they don't matter. I find it a little insulting that adults wouldn't listen to a word I said, especially when they couldn't even understand half the homework I was required to do. The people who get away with "because I said so" and "parents know best" for years accuse us of thinking we know everything, and it really bothers me. Usually, it wasn't even my parents who did this to me. It was teachers and my parents' friends.
I know that I haven't had to deal with the stress of raising a child yet, and I don't know how that will ever effect me. I haven't had to support myself on my own yet, and I don't know what that's like. I know that things are hard for my mom, and I try my best to make things easier for her, but that doesn't change that she says one thing one day and something else the next. "Come talk to me if your brother is doing something he shouldn't" "Deal with him yourself". She yells all the time, and yes, I get that she's stressed, but she is also the one who made the decision to have three children and I feel like when someone makes that kind of a decision, especially after raising one child for 19