There often arise situations when you feel that your parents don’t understand you. It definitely happens in a teenager’s life. We want our parents to understand us and love us but sometimes we feel like they have no time for us. I usually get this feeling when my parents complain about me not doing things by myself. They think that I am a grown up and often scold me when I don’t do things that they expect me to do. My mum wants me to help her with the household chores which I hate doing and so she complains to my dad about it. And then I question myself ‘Do I have any rights of my own?’

When I try to watch my favourite shows on TV shows my meddling brother wants to watch cartoons, and when I tell my mother about it, she simply says, “You’re a grown up, let your brother watch it”. At that very moment I try to hide my anger because I don’t like to show it to my mum.

I often think why my parents don’t understand me. Were they never kids? They want us to do everything that an adult does but I am a still a teenager and want to enjoy my life.

This thought often bothers me. But now I have realised that even if they don’t show it, they do actually love and care about me, and want me to become a responsible person. My past could have been an easy one if both my parents and I had tried to understand each other. Maybe they could have made an attempt to understand my psychology. I would have never thought that my parents don’t love me if they had understood me.

This situation is faced by many teenagers. We often don’t understand our parents and have clashes with them. But if parents and children try to understand each other we wouldn’t have any problems and life would be better for both of us.

— Merina Shakya , Grade IX, AVM

High School