It is so annoying having strict parents

my parents suck. my parents are jehova witneses so i cant do nuthin. im 15 male and they treat me like 3 one time i was talkin 2
a girl (not alowed to talk to non jw over phone specially girls) and they had dis fckin long ass talk bout how i was bein irresponsible and this would lead me 2 commit fornication (im in DE and shes in NY) and how i cant handle a cel phone. they made me give up the phone and wen i did the girl called agian and i stood and watched my dad tell her off i was angry as sh*t. help!

These kind of strict parents really frustrate me. In trying to protect their children they lose perspective. If you can't trust a child to avoid smoking, drugs and excess of alcohol then is there even much point in trying to parent them at all? I'm sure keeping a grasp on what they're doing and making sure they make the right choices is fine but when it interferes with their happiness, then something's gone wrong. Life wasn't meant to be lived in the "long run" because you're never given a guarantee that you'll grow up to be an adult at all!

Best way is to act mature, try to be smarter than them, and have an argument with them if they annoy you. Try to be clever in the argument, using mature words, and maybe drop in a few strong words to give some energy. If they really piss you off then just go mental. Like, either give them some clever revenge, OR (even more effective) start banging your head hard against a wall, or make yourself puke up or something so they become worried and realize what effect they are having on you. It sounds insane, but you may only have to do it once and they'll become more sensitive about telling you what to do.

I know this post is really old but I need to vent. I am 20 years old, going to be 21 in less then a month. I've been away at college twice alreayd (going to be a junior) and I still have to be in at 11 every night. I have never been in trouble for anything, I have an athletic scholarship in college where I play softball. I have had the same boyfriend for over 5 years, we waited 3 years to have sex, I do drink occasionally but like I said I have never been in trouble. I have never even been pulled over before. My boyfriend is also really good, but his parents are more lenient with him (because he doesn't do anything wrong) and it's so hard when we want to go somewhere and I am either not allowed or have to be in at 11. My dad is pretty much on my side about everything but can't actually allow me to do things because it woudl start major arguments with him and my mom. I have never smoked anything in my entire life and I always get accused of being high. My mom always wants my boyfriend to pick me up-which is fine-but even to go to his house and hang out, which is ridiculous. My friends have stopped asking me to do things because they know that I'm not allowed, so instead I just find out that they did things without me, which ends up really hurting my feelings. I have no idea how to handle this situation anymore, my mom needs serious help. Other then this she is great, I love her to death it is just so unbearable to be home when I am ONLY allowed to be home.

Dude, my folks are strict, i couldnt do much. but eventually they will respect you enough to make decisions. and someday youll understand why they made theirs. and you have to love them for loving you enough to be strict, cause that means they want you to grow up into a good person, not somebody who doesnt know anything about respect, money, etc

Okay I need to seriously vent. I know parents are supposed to have meaning or whatever behind their strictness, but my parents are just so overprotective to the extreme. It's like they don't trust me at all, and I neverdid anything wrong. I'm a senior in highschool, I get good grades, did good on the SATs, take AP classes, I don't smoke, I don't drink, like they're so strict I don't even date, because it would be such a hassle into persuaying them to let me. I can't go anywhere out with my friends, can't even sleepover. They're always like your friends can come here & chill, sleepover whatever, but why would I want to trap them in my house. We wouldn't be able to do anything! And when I get to a certain point, and it's like I need to hang out with someone, the answer always turns out to be NO for them coming to my house anyways! Then there are those days where I literally beg from weeks prior to, so I can hang out with my friends and even then, I have to get a ride there and back from someone and they call me at least 273637387373 times. Once it got so bad, that I had just gotten to y friends house and they decided me being out was not a good idea and made me come home, before i even got to my friends house! Like i seriously don't know what to do! They always tell me friends are bad and they'll just leave you anyways. They try o socially exclude me from everything, I had texting and one say they randomly turn it off. I ask why and my dad just gets PISSED and goes on and on about how he doesn't need to explain himself. He purposefully broke my laptop charger, so I can't usethat anymore. Our family computer is tracked & he can see screen by screen EVERYTHING the user does on there. Like and the sad thing is, I neverrrrr did anything to desrve this! Now I just got my license and just by saying the word Car sets him off. He let's me get my licnse but won't let me get a car bcause he doesnt trust me!! I NEED a car! I'm so sick of always asking for rides! I can't even get q job to pay for one myself because I'm not "allowd" to get a car.

I am going INSANE.
Like please help me?!

Hi there! It sounds like your parents are really hard on you and I hate that you have to deal with that. HOw old are you? Unfortunately I know what it's like to have a helicopter parent. The best thing that you have to do is just ride it out. I know they want what's best for you but it really is difficult to handle the situation especially as a minor. You have to meet them where they are and try to push on them a little bit to make sure that they're aware that they're being a little hard on you...

I actually had a friend's mom talk to my mom about relaxing a little. It worked for a bit. But do you think that might work?

My mom takes the cake with strict parrenting! She won't let me do anything without her right next to me, or at least watching me. Anytime I want to hang out with a friend she will follow us and try to listen in on our conversations! Its not because I don't(or my friends don't drive.) I do, and so do mst of my friends. I have friends who's parents gave them corvettes for their 16th birthday! Its NOT fair! If I want to date a guy (never been on one), my mom has to be asked by the guy if he has permission to go out with me. I'm NOT ok with that! I know she comes from the OLD era, but I don't think its fair for the guy, or for me! Even if he did this, my mother would accompany us on the "date"... I have a horse, and I'm not even allowed to go ride her alone (she's in the backyard!) At night, I sleep in a room that is right next to my mother's which I don't find so fair! My "bedtime" is 8 o'clock! NOT cool for a teenager! I'm not supposed to use my laptop without her standing right next to me, or my phone! I usually get out of the phone thing by texting in code words! Is it too much to ask her to BACK OFF! She's SMOTHERING me practically!

Ha. My parents dont let me do very much. They are very very strict. They don't allow me to do anything or push me to do stuff I dont want to do. Since now I don't like them it so hard to talk to them. Everything seems to end up with me crying myself to sleep. I have tried to be more mature, I am STILL doing more chores than my 16 year old older sister, and I have been doing more since she was in Grade 6! I just isnt fair that my parents dont understand I am growing up. They expect me to act like I am 16, but treat me like I am 10. I am very sick of it.

my perants are way to strict they take my computor and xbox for the smallist of things my dad hits me for lieig even its a joke and i am going crazy and failing my classes and i hide in my room all day somebody help me ! !

my parants
im going out
be back by 11
2!!
ok

I have the World's strictest parents. and i am not joking about one thiung.....
1.No extracurriclur activities, they think its too much of a hassle
2.if i go outside and play im not allowed off my street
3. not allowed inside my friends house oh and by the way that "friend" is my neighbor that we have known forever.
4. no one is allowed to come over, not even step inside
5. im not allowed to wear clothes i wore to school in the house (theyre germy)
6. not allowed to bring my psp to sleepover si have with my cousin. MY COUSIN!.
7, oh and btw my cousin wasnt allowed in my room when he came over once.....
8. im 14

My parents are also strict but I don't think much of it because I have no life or friends.
I can't go outside , I can't join any extra activities , I can't get a grade below an "A" , I must do my chores , limited computer time , I have no cell phone and my house phone is off , can't play video games , limited T.V. time . My parents are going through a divorce , my dad is an alcholic and addicted to prescription drugs , my mom has started dating other people , they also argue quite the bit. So I keep my input and hide my emotions.

Well I am 26 now and married. When I was growing up I was not allowed to have any phone calls from friends nor make them. My sisters I I would never be allowed to watch TV...ever! We had to stay in our rooms with nothing to play with except a game of monopoly and checkers. As we got older we were then monitored on what we ate. No cookies, chips, candies...nothing like that. We had to eat in our room while my mother watched TV on the couch. Going to high school was the real start of all the computers and tech advances. We were given a type writer to make reports over the weekend that she made us write on books she would pick out. It was pure hell. We couldnt even go to the bathroom with out asking. It all chnaged when I was forced to get a job at 16. Half my money would go to the family, the other half I saved to get out of that hell house. To this day my mom will call me up making sure I have not cut my hair, still eat healthy, and she is even telling me I have to go on birth control and should not be allowed to drive a car.
Its ridculous
I dont listen to her anymore and my husband is afraid of her

oh i have stricter parents. My mom and dad is babysitting me every minute of my life :x :x :x !I just want to be independent. I need help!