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Have you ever wished your parents would see things through your eyes? That when they say things like 'you've got all the time in the world' or 'you have nothing better to do' you could switch positions with them? Sometimes that's how I feel. Like today. We had just gotten back from a great day and my step dad asked my sister to bring up the laundry. Well, I see it from her point of veiw, all the laundry she folded isn't hers, so why does she have to bring it all upstairs, and I see it from his position, too; it's her chore, she has to do it before getting on the computer. She said she would when she gets done with all the laundry and my mom says, 'Well, the washer isn't going and neither is the dryer."
Once again, I see it from my sisters’ position; we just got home and I wanna check something real fast. And my parents; you can do that later. But, this is the thing, time is a privilege, not a promise and it’s her computer that she paid for. So, her response (which I don't agree with) was that she'd start mouthing off, not necessarily cursing, but just saying things.
My step dad, who is 23, and my sister who is 19, start arguing. After a moment, he tells her to get off the computer. Once again, both sides; she sees it as 'it's my computer, why should I have to get off?' and he sees it as 'I'm paying the bills here, find another so get off.' After a moment of this he just walks up and takes her laptop. Bad move, dad.
You see, everyone knows that to us teenagers, our property is our sanctuary, our coven, a place we can go to when we need a little alone time. And sense she brought it with her money, it was a double bad.
They started fighting, literally. My mom had to rip them apart. Then my sister grabs something and just starts having at it with my step dad. I see it from both points of view again; my sister was just minding her business when someone interrupted her, she just wanted to get something done then she was going to what she was told like most teenagers do. But to the parents side it’s ‘Insubordination’ or that she ‘won’t’ follow the rules (as fast as they want it done).
My sister storms upstairs and actually (once again, I don’t agree with it) throws the iron downstairs. She locks the bathroom door and starts banging on the walls. (A little tid bit real quick. When she lived with her grandmother she was babied. This has been how our visits end for the past six years. When she doesn’t get her way, stay back.) Now it’s really heated. My sister has moved to my room. At this point I’m holding my brother actually ready to start counseling both parents and sister so nothing in my room gets broken. Well, she starts banging on my closet wall and it’s broke. My mom starts choking her. Both positions; my sister ‘It wasn’t yours to touch’ and my mom ‘we brought this place, stop breaking it’
This goes on for a while then it calms down. Now the point I’m trying to get across is, who was right in this situation? Was it my sister or was it my parents? Do you thing they’re always right or do you think they should sometimes chill out and let us be us? I wanna know your opinion.