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[amandapleeease]

So I'm mad at my parents for not letting me go out tonight, New Years Eve. I kind of over reacted and we were all yelling but I'm almost 17 years old , and I wanted to go out with my boyfriend of 10 months (who my parents love btw) but they said no because it wasn't gonna be "safe" for me and it wouldn't be smart for them to let me go. Sooo I got mad and grouded and I know I need to apologize but I want to stand my ground because I still think I should've been able to go out. I don't know what to do ):

[alegnatm]

Where were you trying to go? were they concerned because there was going to be alcohol around or something like that?

[mandakim]

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amandapleeease wrote:

So I'm mad at my parents for not letting me go out tonight, New Years Eve. I kind of over reacted and we were all yelling but I'm almost 17 years old , and I wanted to go out with my boyfriend of 10 months (who my parents love btw) but they said no because it wasn't gonna be "safe" for me and it wouldn't be smart for them to let me go. Sooo I got mad and grouded and I know I need to apologize but I want to stand my ground because I still think I should've been able to go out. I don't know what to do ):

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where were you going? i mean, your parents were just worried that you could be in danger or something if there was alcohol at the party (i'm guessing it was a party).

be thankful your parents love you and don't want anything to happen to you. you probably think they were being mean but they're just being protective. my parents are the same.........probably worse than yours.......but i'm glad they're like that, instead of not caring where i went and who i went with.

best thing to do is just apologise and be thankful they care about you

[scuzz]

I'd either apologize or just let it go.
I'm 20 years old and have been dating my boyfriend for nearly 3 years now and my parents still worry if I go out on New Years Eve. I still live at home with my parents. It is probably the worst night to go out. As there are drunks everywhere  including driving (and just a larger amount of people travelin in general), cops everywhere waiting to catch drunks, where I live the weather is completely crappy (snow, slush, ice covered roads etc) which sucks for driving, and the deer are pretty active mostly after dark. Even though my  parents are fine with a lot of things they probably wouldn't have ever let me go out on New Years Eve when I was only 16. That is without even considering the concerns of being underage and getting drunk, or doing drugs, or having sex etc.

[ELH95]

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amandapleeease wrote:

So I'm mad at my parents for not letting me go out tonight, New Years Eve. I kind of over reacted and we were all yelling but I'm almost 17 years old , and I wanted to go out with my boyfriend of 10 months (who my parents love btw) but they said no because it wasn't gonna be "safe" for me and it wouldn't be smart for them to let me go. Sooo I got mad and grouded and I know I need to apologize but I want to stand my ground because I still think I should've been able to go out. I don't know what to do ):

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Ask to sit down with both of them and tell them that that you're sorry for overreacting about going out on New Years Eve. 
Explain that while you do agree you overreacted, at the time you didn't understand their concerns for your safety or what they were worried about when they knew who you were going with, etc. 

They can't bubble wrap you and keep you home all the time, so maybe ask them if in future, there's anything you can do to make it safer when you go out (i.e. a curfew, having one of them drop you off at the place or pick you up, even taking up self-defence classes so they can be at ease). It's natural for them to worry, they're your parents and the last thing they want is for something bad to happen to you, but I can 100% understand that you want to enjoy yourself with friends and have fun.