Every generation must endure the trials and tribulation of raising kids. What makes me curious, is what were the privilages our parent's-parent's denied when they misbehaved? Were kids just all beaten into submission?Today teenagers seem to assume a bill of rights far beyond what I learned was in our constitution.
Here is my understanding of the current rights provided to the average teenager these days:
- Parents should make no law establishing chores
- A well connected group of friends must communicate, therefore the right to bear cellphones must be protected.
- No teenager, in a time of summer vacation, should be expected to clean thier room
- Parents should make no attempt to violate a teenagers right to privacy, including notes, emails, instant messaging, internet histories, and cell phone conversations.
- No teen should be expected to answer to any actions without probable argument, denial, defiance, yelling, kicking, screaming, and slamming of doors.
- In all prosecutions, teenagers reserve the right to second opinions from the opposing parent, step parent, grand parent, or anyone with a supporting view.
- Any penalty should never exceed one week of allowance, one day of cellphone OR MySpace privilages. Groundings must never include restriction from school activites included but not limited to dances, football games, parties, birthday celebrations, or the mall.
- No teen should be denied the free exersize of personal expression, including hoochie outfits, piercings, tatoos, or other body modifications.
- Parents must provide equal opportunity to socialize with all other teenagers without discrimination based on social status, body modifications, criminal records, personal hygene, appearance, or addictive or hazardous activities.
- Curfews, when imposed, must never be earlier than the latest curfew of the other teenagers currently participating in the evenings activites, or the ability to "spend the night" must be allowed in case of conflict.
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