Going against my parents authority
"Wash the dishes, clean the bathrooms, or clean up your room." I constantly hear my parents asking me to complete these tasks. Especially the one about cleaning my room. Why is it that I never do what my parents ask of me?
Cleaning up my room or doing a chore that my parents ask of me doesn't seem important to me as it does to them. The things that I'm doing at the time seem much more important, even if they are not. Let's say I'm watching the television an my mom comes in to tell me to clean my room. Watching TV. seems more important. Then I use the "I'll do it in a second" response to get my parents of my back but "in a second" never seems to come. Later on, mom comes to check up on me and sees that my room is still a mess.
She gets upset and starts yelling at me. Once I hear her raise her voice, there's something that triggers in my brain that commands me to argue with my mom. Before you know it, other topics come into our argument and things get uglier and in the end, two people end up extremely upset. I shake my head in frustration thinking out loud," Why didn't I just clean up my room?" I didn't win anything from the argument only making my mom's day more stressful than it already is.
At a very young age my parents were raised to work very hard. They were even taken out of school to help out the family. I believe my parents want me to learn these values, so that I can become a better person in life. It's hard for them to get me to do the...
You are so right
I am 18 and when I was about 15 or 16 I would always argue with my mom when she ask me to do something I thought that my life was to busy to help out around the house. But now that I am older and and have a job and i go to collage full-time I realize how much more time I had when I was younger. If I would have just cleaned my room I would have saved my mother a lot of stress. So everyone please help your parents.
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