Convince my parents

[ballpythonluvr]

I am sorry, and I do not wnat to fight, but this is what is wrong with youth today. To many allow and encourage youth to go against their parents and do what they want. Yes my son has a snake, yes he wants another one, but this is my home and my rules. Maybe one day he will get another, but when I say no I mean it. If he did break my rules there would be a punshiment, that would be getting rid of the snake if that is what the broken rule was. Why are jails so full?? Because there are people who think it is their right to do as they please. Learn respect and follow the rules that are set.

I completely agree with this. Manipulation is not the way to go here. I have two daughters myself and if they wanted a snake, they would have to ask me and show me that they really want this and show me that they can be responsible.

[zach_24_90]

I am sorry, and I do not wnat to fight, but this is what is wrong with youth today. To many allow and encourage youth to go against their parents and do what they want. Yes my son has a snake, yes he wants another one, but this is my home and my rules. Maybe one day he will get another, but when I say no I mean it. If he did break my rules there would be a punshiment, that would be getting rid of the snake if that is what the broken rule was. Why are jails so full?? Because there are people who think it is their right to do as they please. Learn respect and follow the rules that are set.

haha im sorry i cant help but laugh at that.. not trying to be rude but its parents like that that have the sneakiest children. the more you rule with an iron fist the more your kids are going to find ways to sneak around it. im in my 20s now and my parents tried that for a while when i was 12-16ish then when they realized it was a lot easier to be the cool parents we got along so much better. as long as we let them know what we were doing and where we were gonna be etc they didnt care all that much. we even started hanging out at the house soo much more haha so point of the story.. if your gonna be a iron fist parent then your gonna get hurt when your kids rebel and leave as soon as they can get a foot out the door and push you away as fast as they can.. but if you want to be a little slack and see it from your kids point of view and take interest in it with them.. then your going to have a lot better relationship at the end of the day..

[tsy72001]

That is NOT true. My parents where very strict and I NEVER got in trouble or did what they did not want me too. Was I perfect, NO. My kids are not perfect, but they know the rules and follow them. Will they test me, yes I am sure they will. What I was saying is do not encourage children to break rules. I am a teacher and students that break rules get into trouble, so if you break rules at home you get into trouble, if you break rules in the adult world, you get into trouble.

And my boys and I do almost everything together. They are with me or my dad at all times. We ride together and have the same hobbies. yes they have friends, but guess what their friends like to do things with us. Kids strive for structure and boundries.

[nachash]

haha im sorry i cant help but laugh at that.. not trying to be rude but its parents like that that have the sneakiest children. the more you rule with an iron fist the more your kids are going to find ways to sneak around it...

YUP...
Now, I'm not going to lie, I am one of those sneaky kids grown up. Sigh, parents shudder at the idea of their kids manipulating them, when good parenting is entirely manipulation. If some end up having kids unable to play them as parents, they'll have dull kids.
Look dude, you see one group of people (parents) saying what they'd say to their own kids. You're not looking for advice from them as your own parents. The other group is people telling you to bide your time. I don't disagree, but only bide your time if you can't push things along.
The third is the portion saying to do what you want, but in a smart way.

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