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SirGan · Article Author Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 137

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This article should be well read over and over again by ALL parents, bearing in fact that not most parents aree overprotective.
Being a 15 year old teenager, I feel this way about my parents. They are TOO over protective! I can't go ANYWHERE by myself, and NOWHERE without them coming along with me.
Us youngsters need at least an hour a day of freedom; Especially when it comes to the school break.
Independance is what we need to focus on as we grow up. Our parents wont be there for us all our lives to cater for us, thus we need to learn and to experience to do it ourselves.
Now, I understand that they 'care' for us and 'fear' losing us or putting us into the risk of danger, but we need time for ourselves. Everything we do is written down on a page of our own individual history, and I'd like to have some fun with friends, by ourselves, in at least 3,000 of the billion pages I have.
Like birds, when they learn to take off and feed themselves, we need to be freed for a period of time as well, with our parents bearing in mind that we will return.
Now, please recomend my message; This message goes to ALL ages.
And I hope someone will change how parents protect their children for future hand. If not me, then you.

Thank you.

xx Nicole.

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Hi =) I'm fifteen aswel, and i know exactly what it's like to have overprotective parents. Mine are the worst when it comes to that, trust me... When i go somewhere, they always bring me by car, and pick me up again. I can never stay anywhere later than 6oclock. I've never been to a party, and i only once (recently) slept over with a friend (a girl offcourse). Especially my mom is very protective. I can't even go to the store around the corner or to the movies by myself or with a friend. She'll always want to go with me. I hate her being like that, because, being overprotective kind of will work backwards: you'll want to do things, but you aren't allowed to do them, so you'll try to do them without them knowing you do. I hate lieing, but they don't leave me much of a choice. I do want to make one thing clear: I'm not a rebel, I'm a very good, smart girl. There's no reason to not trust my intentions. The worst thing is that she can't communicate. I can't tell her she is like that, because she would not believe she is all that bad. She thinks she does it for my own good, but please... you have to let teenagers expierence their youth, don't you? You have to let them learn from their mistakes... They won't learn anything by preventing them to make mistakes.

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You both have absolutely no idea what overprotective parents are until you realise you're almost TWENTY and that most of the things you did growing up were watch television and go on the computer. Hell, you can count the amount of friends you have on one hand only and the only thing you want to do is GET OUT.

One of my parents seemed to think that the only thing to being a child is to study and do work around the house. I didn't think I'd still be here at this point because one of my parents ruined my chance of getting away from this misery. As I said you know nothing about overprotectiveness. I didn't have a game system because one of my parents thought it was only going to further waste my time and their money; even if I said I would buy it myself. Almost 20 and still here...The thought seems pathetic to me even. I spent most of my life being freakishly bored and not doing much. Reading is my escape, and once I was reading too much...Hopefully all that will change this year. Can you believe one of my parents are still trying to ruin that for me too? It won't happen though. Now I'm an adult and I'll be leaving this godforsaken house! Good luck with your situations though.

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