Parents

Have you ever felt so sick of chores? Like your parents are giving you chores so you can’t hang out with friends and have any fun? Do you ever feel like your parents are just doing or saying things do make your life miserable? Or to embarrass you? I often feel like this, but despite what we may think or feel at the moment we are going through these hard experiences, parents do have a purpose for everything they do, think, or say. One experience is when parents make you do chores. The next experience is when your parents make you spend some “quality” time with family. Last, is when your parents want to “supervise.” These experiences, including chores, are not always fun.
The first experience was when your parents make you do chores. Yes, I am a teenager, so I do realize that chores are not a fun thing to do. It always seems like they are just giving me busy work and they always give me chores at the most inconvenient time possible. I always wonder why they don’t give work to me when I am bored, but they do when I have plans. But parents always have a reason for what they do, but I never remember that while I am going through these experiences. There are several reasons they give you chores. One of the reasons being: Who wants to live in a mess? It is so much easier to be organized and put things away in the same spot every time. It will save you more time in the long run to stay organized, so you won’t have a huge mess to clean up later. Through chores they also teach you hard work. If you are lazy, and never do chores…what will your own house look like when you have to take care of it? No one wants to be around a lazy, messy, unorganized bum. No one. Although chores are not fun, this is not the only experience that is not fun.
The Second experience was when your parents make you spend “quality” time with your family. If I have plans with friends, those are the times my parents plan some kind of activity with my family. I know being with your family is not always cool, but in the long run, who cares? When you are old, it will not matter how popular you were in junior high and high school, but it will matter what your relationship with your family is like. If you spend a lot of “quality” time with your family, you are very likely to have a good relationship with them when you are older. Often times when my parents want to spend some quality time with me, they supervise, my friends and me.
The Last reason was when my parents supervise my friends and me. I don’t always want them watching over my shoulder, but I am glad they care. If they don’t worry about where I am, or don’t supervise, that tells me they don’t really care. When I am a parent, I will probably do the same, because I will want to what my children are doing, even if it is not convenient for them.
In conclusion, parents may make us do things we don’t want to do, or inconvenience us, or embarrass us, but they do all those things for a reason, or to teach us a certain lesson.