Often times I find myself at World War III with my parents. Whether it’s about the clothes I wear, where I’ve been or who I’ve been with, the arguments never seem to end. Although all kids and parents fight, I find that it happens too frequently in my life, I examine my relationship with my parents. But as I have my own busy schedule and my parent’s have theirs, the little time we actually get to spend together we often fight. If we had a better and more stable parent-child relationship there would be fewer fights.

Although there are many factors as to why our relationship is unstable, the lack of communication and difference in opinion seem to play the biggest factors as to why we have so many problems.

You have the laid back and carefree parents, the dictator type of parents, and the in-betweeners that seem to be the best combination of laid back and strict parents. As a teenager, I find myself trying to live life with no worries, while my parents are quite the opposite. Which annoys me so much because weren’t they teenagers at one point? The moment I ask my parents if I can go out, I am almost immediately bombarded with questions. Although I understand my parents are concerned with my safety, I see it as being me babied constantly. Although this is for my safety, if my parents would tell me why and communicated with me more about it would be easier.

Another clashing point between teens and their parents are grades are also an issue. While some parents expect their child to be a prodigy or those parents that are satisfied with their child’s best work, teens often fight about this topic because they try but their parents think otherwise. Although some kids don’t try hard in school or they are doing their best some parents don’t see that, giving unequal insight on the topic.

From a girl with the most unstable relationship with her parents, teenagers today should strive for a better relationship with their parents and make the situation less stressful on both parents and child.