Nearly everybody agrees on that:Being a parent is a hard job.But they also forget one thing..It is difficult to be a teenager, too.Parents should sacrifice something for their children.Otherwise how can they say they are parents?
We, teenagers, want to do many things.With the hope of getting permission for doing something, we ask our parents.Instead of getting permission, we leave in a mood of disappointment, since we aren't allowed to do what we want to do.Very well!Why is it like that?Is it because our parents don't want us to do that thing or they don't care about us?The reason behind this is, in fact, they care about us.As a result of this, they think so carefully and deeply that we cannot get permission.They have the opinion of we could get harm if we did whatever we want.There is a common sentence we are accustomed to hear.Parents always say this when they try to explain the reason why they don't give permission to their child:'We believe you, but not other people or the things around you...'But if parents always do like this, how can these teenagers learn what the meaning of life is or how it is to live on this world?They must have their own experiences in life in order to undrestand these things.I think it is worth trying!On the other hand in some cases, we should listen to our parents and shouldn't be stubborn.Parents have life experiences, because they were teenagers too once upon a time.They can see the things that we don't see or don't want to see.They can know the consequences of some situations.Thus they can enlighten their children and help them.
Being a parent requires to be flexible.I mean, they should know how to behave in different cases.They should make right decisions about their child's demands or wills.Because teenagers are in search for finding their self-confidences and other things related to their personalities.Teenagers also try to get accustomed to the outcomes of what they do.The consequence may be satisfying or disappointing.No matter what it is they can say that,'It is my own decision and I don't regret of it.'
Being a teenager in my family is like these cases I mentioned above.They are strict for most of the things.For example, they didn't let me go even a school trip when I was at high school.It was two years ago and my school organized a school trip to Ankara on november tenth.Nearly most of my classmates joined it but I couldn't.Metu was also one of the places that would be visited during that trip.When my friends came back, they couldn't finish saying how great it was.I became so sad for not going there.But now I'm here!In fact, my parents wouldn't have let me come here again.But I wanted to come here so much that I didn't listen to anybody and persuaded my parents.
There must be some agreements between teenagers and parents.Everything is mutual as you know.So when a teenager does something wanted from his or her, that person must be rewarded with another different thing.This can reduce the tension between these people.Yes, I think there is a generation gap between me and my parents as it happens in most of families.It is easy to understand this.Because our ideas about the same situation can be different from each other or there can't be any similarity.Something which seems reasonable to us can be absurd for them.For me, I'm right but for them not and vice versa.While talking to them, they start with a common sentence, again,'In our times...' and this never ends and continues like that.I don't think my parents and I make any effort to bridge that generation gap.Some negativenesses between parents and teenagers always seem to happen.It is an evitable thing, I think.
