Adolescents

After our Thursday lecture about parenting adolescents, I tried to think about my family and the hard times my sisters and I put our parents through as we went through our high school individualism phase. My two sisters, both older than me, where the popular high school cheerleaders who would always sneak out at night and go drinking and partying, always getting in trouble the next day and getting into arguments with my parents. I was never all that close to my sisters, whoever, I carefully watched what they did and said to my parents to figure out what I could get away with without getting into trouble. I would push my boundaries further and further occasionally, like asking if I could stay out an hour or two later on the weekend because of a party I was at. I never did anything too bad, besides drinking, so I felt it was okay, especially after overhearing the stories of what my sisters did, so I always felt like I was doing better than them and obeying more of the rules. However, thinking back, I was still just as bad as they were, I just thought that since I was better at getting away with it, that I must have just been better and smarter. My parents could always tell what I was up to, but since I was the youngest and they had already dealt with two girls, they were a lot more relaxed when it came to me. I think it definitely helped me with my independence though, I felt I could be myself and do what I wanted while still obeying some of the rules that I felt were most important to my parents.