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A Wet Helmet:
And again: I never said that the guy wasn't being a jerk.  What I did say is that a household is not a democracy in which a minor child gets a vote.

I'm not sure that I can be anymore succinct than that.

Hat:
I think mostly the main difference between my parents and I is that they only know how to use the internet for gambling, and they only abuse legally sanctioned drugs anymore.

Also they are about 35 years older than me, which I feel helps a LOT.

Barmymoo:
Wow, that was more of a response than I expected.

Wet Helmet I do take your point, and in a lot of cases I agree with you. Ice cream for dinner, to take your example, is definately something that parents shouldn't condone (and incidentally something I rallied for a lot when I was younger).

But in this case, it wasn't about him telling me not to do something dangerous like substance abuse or shoplifting, it was disregarding my request for the football not to be on. I'm not allowed to read at the table. It felt like double standards. I also take your point that you weren't agreeing with him watching it but just illustrating that there isn't an equal voice. I think this was mostly the point I was making: I'd imagine that as a parent yourself, you are probably closer in age to him than to me, and therefore backing up what I was saying. On the other hand, I could be an anomaly in my own age group and I might find that most people my age would agree that because he is older, he has the right to choose what we watch or don't watch when we eat.

Also, guys, I'm a girl  :wink: It always surprises me when people see Barmymoo as a male name, it always seems female to me (possibly because it's my name?)

Hat, your parents clearly haven't heard of Lolcats or they would not need to abuse any form of drugs.

Hat:
I am 100 % certain that if my parents knew about LOLcats it would only cause them to sink deeper into their substance abuse problems.

Lines:
About the OP, I would say things like maturity and common sense, but people develop these things at different ages. Like I feel I "grew up" well before many other people my age, especially ones I went to school with. But my mom and I get along pretty well. I have a feeling we'd get along better if we didn't live in the same house, because we're both pretty stubborn people, but as I don't have the time to get a job to afford what I need to live on my own while I finish up school, I will stay here for the time being. Hell, I've even done the thing most kids dream of - I got my mom to like over half the music I listen to, and this doesn't include the stuff she played while I was growing up. But I guess the most major difference between me and my mom is that she has more life experience as she's almost 60. About 22 and about 60 is a major difference. Another difference is she doesn't like watching animated movies that much anymore outside of the Pixar stuff. She put up with me watching Disney movies on repeat for days at a time, so I think I can understand why...


--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 09 Mar 2008, 11:02 ---He said that it is his house, and that he was brought up in a family where the father chose what to watch.

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If all three of you live in this house, I don't see how it is only his. He could at least wait until after dinner if your mom asked him to turn it off during dinner. Unless he's one of "those guys," but I don't know him so I won't make that assumption.


--- Quote from: A Wet Helmet on 09 Mar 2008, 14:02 ---What I did say is that a household is not a democracy in which a minor child gets a vote.

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No offense, but maybe in your household this is true, but it certainly wasn't in mine. For a well rounded only child of a single parent, there were things my mom gave me a vote on. Now when it came to eating ice cream for dinner, that was a definite no, obviously, but TV during dinner (for example)? Yes, I would get a vote if it wasn't something important like the news or whatever.

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