Why is it that Teenage children always think that parents are wrong?

Hi mercuryman, It's been a while since I was a teenager, but I believe it is a very difficult time in life. I think that parents should really listen to their teenage children. Too often we simply tell them what they should or should not do. Involving our children in discussions when they are younger will help them to discuss things with us when they are in their teens. We should always respect their opinions, even when we disagree with them, that way they will be more inclined to respect our view, but we must explain why we feel as we do. My wife and I raised three boys and while there were some problems, as there has to be sometimes, there was certainly no rebellion. Blessings.

It reminds me of the terrible 2's in the same way it is a stage of independance development.

[b]hi mercuryman3a! i was once a teenager and now i am considered in the young adult age. i understand how a teenager feels. sometimes, teenagers are needed to be understand by parents. too much restrictions causes a rebel act. parents must also learn how to be open with their children and must also learn how to understan how their child feels. children nowadays has learned how to become strong and independent. it is just a matter of understand how teenagers feel. why don't parents sit down and have a clean talk with their children and both have an explanation of ways how to understand each other then everything will end up okay. happy posting![/b]

Teenage is a period of time to be rebellious. I think every teenagers will go through this time. There is no exception. But after that period of time,teenagers will realize that they were wrong. Thus,parents have to patient with their children in teenage and teach them patiently.

i think thats the age where people listen to others more than their own parents.. they dont understand that the only well wishers they have in this world is their parents. that age is quite tempting for all the bad habits.. and parents dont want their children even get close to it.. so they lay down certain rules to make them stay always from them! but the kids.. always in their own world thinking that, they are a hindrance to their happiness.. and so on.. have a nice day.

Yes, but I think If you try to go back to your teenage days and think how you were thinking those days, you'll be able to understand them more. I'm a parent of a teenager and I'm trying my best to be her best friend. I always tell her how we have been brought up and how much I hated it but now we realized that they did the correct thing. So my kid realizes that as I don't shout at her not to do this and that. You have to be very tactful to handle teenage kids.

I have just crossed 19 , i think even im not totally out of teenage as my activities are still like a teen , this was commented by my mom .I have faced and facing too many problems as im a teen , that too being a teenage girl is something which should not happen at all ,My dad wont allow me to goto my friends home , my mom supports my dad , they always want me to score high which is not a wrong thought but why the heck they stop me from going out to my friends home? They dont like many friends visiting my home , i really get irritated when they put so many restrictions , my brother who is 5 years younger can goto his friends home but i should not! i dont have any bad activities so far , this makes me to rebel against them .How can young people like me can stay at home always other than going to college? If i sit in pc my brother will come to fight he says he needs the pc and when i sit and watch tv , he is there again to watch WWE , i dont know how to express my grief im so much down i seriously want to complete my studies and move out of my home.I hope distance factor will improve our love , i will fight against them if they dont allow me to go abroad for work! Do you think im not understanding them or they are not doing it to me? They have also crossed my age have good friends but i dont.I lost many friends just because of my parents , i have few of them left out , two days before dad and mom called me and spoke i should not bring any friends home here then :(

i think it is the age when they are transferred from one stage to anothe rin life. so they feel restless. also they are not sure about life,ideas and aim. even they start to see world in new lights and think they are only right.

i don,t know when we say black they say white the parent don,t know what we are talking about teenagers are hard to raise now very very rebellous. we been where they have to go and we don,t know what we are talking about we try to tell them so they will not go through what we went through.still don,t want to listen will tell you let them find out for there self teens are something else.

Didn't you know, about the time a child becomes a teenager, parents get really dumb. They don't know anything, and the teenager knows it all, just ask them lol. However, the older you get the smarter your parents become. They start getting a little smarter in your 20's, and by the time you hit thirty, they are real smart, and know answers to just about any question you could ask them. Actually teenagers of each generation have had new inventions to 'play' with, and to make learning easier, and therefore think they know way more than their parents do. They are also at that point between a child and a young adult, and wanting to spread their wings a little, so they think that their parents are being too strict. Parents are just trying to watch out for their children, which has nothing to do with age, you always want your child to do their best, and be safe no matter how old they are.

Well, I guess this is the classic case. Teenagers want to be treated like "adults" even though they're not completely adults yet. However, I think they'll outgrow this phase. They just want to be allowed to make their own mistakes and learn from them. At least that was what I felt in my teenage years. More often than not, they realize that their parents want the best for them, but they just want to follow their own paths, even though sometimes it's the wrong one. When will they begin to understand their parents? From what I've seen, they'll begin to do this when they've reached at least 25 years old or once they have to live alone and work for their own lives and pay for everything themselves.

hii...earlier when i was small...i always used to think that why parents keep so many restictions towards their children..n sometimes i used to think that their decision are wrong..but now as i grown up my perception towards parents totally change..they never be wrong for their children..they always want their children safe n happy..whatever they say is absolutely right..they never be wrong for their children..n i respect my parents alot..n i love their restrictions..

Well when I was a teenager I didn't think my parent's were always wrong I just thought they were wrong sometimes

Are you a Chinese parent? This is very commonplace in China.For me at least to being Chinese when i was a child.The problem is they are interested in something give them good feeling but impracticable without thinking the result as a teenage children like me,but parents always want their children come back to the real life.They are opposite to each other.I must admit I have no idea.I think this must be exist not only at the moment but also in the future.It will be exist forever.So no shortcut,just to accept it.It's your national condition unless you can change it.

When they are small they think you are the smartest person alive. In the teen years they think you are the stupidest. When they grow up they realize you aren't as stupid as they thought you were.

It's so much easier to blame the parents if things go wrong. The life of a teenager revolves around the self. Even of you're in a group of friends it's always about you at the end of the day. So blaming others especially one's parent who will take the blame is the easy way out. Teenagers are too immature to face up to the consequences of their actions. They also think highly of themselves so they don't want to admit that they're at fault. That's just my opinion though...

well its a maturing process.. teens need to think they know more to give them confidence in facing the outside world and adult hood.. parents dont understand teens because life changes so much that its hard to keep up with your own much less understand how theirs is and how times have changed to know how to deal with them

Parents don't have all the answers. There are things we tell our children that they later realize may not be true or at least that there are other views. Once kids realize that there are other views than what their parents have told them it opens a door to exploration. Rebellion is an important stage in our lives. It allows us to start thinking for ourselves rather than just accepting whatever we are told. It is difficult for parents when their kids start having their own thoughts and feelings. Especially when the kids make it so obvious that they no longer agree with our views on things.

i think i have the righ answer to your question because i just finish the teenager times . so in my opinion teenage doesnt understand their parents because they dont now yet the true meaning of the life and how to chose the right choice and for that it take's time this time its what we called youth and it depend some teenager take a short time others no depending on the teenage life and what he've been through that's the general case . in other part it could be the parent and this case is very rare and in my opinion has to causes first if the parent are too old like we say "old fashion parent " or if there is some real probleme between hasband and wife and here when they forget about their children necessity