It is a daily routine, in my household, for there to be screaming, cussing, and just constant bickering. Usually the arguments are over something so simple. It seems like the anger between every member in my house has just gotten so much worse. Being just a young teen myself, and writing to all you adults may just seem outrageous, but sometimes it helps to have a perspective from the other end.

Living in a big family has taken quit a bit of time to learn some life lessons. Parents go to work and have long hard days. Kids have school, and you have to keep in mind you don't know what could have happened with friends, work, and emotions. So by the time everyone get homes people are just tired and ready to just lay down and relax. Be careful what you say anything could be taken offensively! Please keep in mind, parents you were a teen before to. It is an emotional time our bodies our changing, our friends are changing daily, we are incredibly stressed, and it's a big confusing time. We feel like we are lost and have no one to talk to. Just try to be there for us, try and understand.
That's what relationships are about you cannot just try one time and suddenly give up. It takes time to understand each other clearly. I think the fighing between adults and their teenagers is a display of love and care. If we didn't care about each other we wouldn't waste the words to tell them how we feel. Also remember teenagers are rebellious. We need to feel like we have some control over our lives too, and the parents are still in the mind frame of us teenagers being childish. For the teenagers who read this article your parents are just trying to do what's best for you. So take what they say with great heed, try to be more understanding. Despite what we fight about we still love you because we care. In the end we will still have a blossoming relationship. You didn't fight with your parents when you were younger? Just remember we are people too and we make mistakes we are becoming young adults and you have to let us learn from our mistakes. If you don't let us take those "mess ups" then we will never learn, sometimes it takes more then words.

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