Saturday, August 25, 2012

Teenage Rant

I am always easily annoyed and upset at my parents it seems, but especially after I've been with my friends for a while.  I'm not sure why.  If it's because I realize that my parents act just as immature as my friends do, or maybe because my friends better understand me than my parents.  Both of which are true, but I'm still not sure what does it.  I find that when I'm with my friends or even family, but outside of anything we own, I'm happy, energetic, motivated, optimistic. But when with my parents, or at our house, or in the car, I am sad, unmotivated, lazy, or pessimistic. I don't know what to do or how to help this.  Maybe I just need to get out of the house more.  I also have a fiery temper and my parents are kind of immature so my parents don't really know what to do.  Especially my mom, to me it seems that she always finds the exact things to say to set me off.  My parents, when having a conversation with me, will continue talking and never let me talk.  When there is finally a gap in the conversation I will say something but then they often say I interrupted, even though they interrupt me quite a lot.  They often don't listen to what I say and when they do they take it to the extreme to make fun, especially my dad.  Like I will tell him I don't like it when he pokes me and then for like a week if he even touches me he'll start apologizing and announcing, " Oh, I'm so sorry I know you don't like it when I do that."  He says it in a way to suggest that he is making a point out of how stupid my request was.      
Also, if I were to tell him any of this he would make fun of me for having feelings.  Both of my parents do this, when I come home from being gone for a while they'll say things about how I'm never home, but I know for a fact that they do nothing differently versus when I'm there or not.  When I'm there my mom is making dinner or watching TV and my dad is either on his nook watching movies or watching TV.  They don't seem to do much else ever.  I know they aren't "bad" parents and I shouldn't complain.  But would it hurt to pay attention to me a little better and for them to try to understand me?  I don't know if its my fault for being hormonal and temperamental, or theirs for not being serious enough and not paying attention.

What do you think makes teenagers and parents not get along?

No comments:

Post a Comment