My parents don't let me listen to music?
Your parents sound like complete control freaks. Heaven forbid I doubt you will be this type of parent. You'll just have to wait it out until you are not living in this house. Somehow you manage to listen to this music elsewhere. Continue the lie to your parents and listen to your favorite bands in other ways. Then one day when they compliment you on your good school grades or for helping around the house, etc. tell them you have done well despite sneaking in some easy listening music from time to time. Tell them you respect their wishes that you can't own an Ipod but you have used it and it didn't make you a bad person. But as parents they are wrong in not trusting you more. Why shouldn't you go to a prom if the others are going? This type of control is not helping you respect them. Respect is not giving in to someones whims it means you tolerate other people's point of view.
My parents are making me suicidal!?
hm...where to start. Well the easiest issue is that being born did not "cause" anyone to get sick. Whatever your sister's problem is, it's gentics. Let that one go. Also, being as you are a 16 year old girl it is completely natural to like boys. It would be weird if you didn't. Until you turn 18, there isn't much you can do about what your parents want you to do. You legally have to listen to them. Your parents really should present a united front, but since they aren't it's kinda hard to say what you should do as you are being pulled in 2 separate directions it would seem. I guess it is best to just kinda go with it. If you don't want to join your mom's church, then as long as your dad supports you, you don't have to. You really are just going to have to go with the flow until you turn 18. If you want to take up music then ask, if your parents say no, then you can't really do anything. If they say yes then congrats. Your dad can't force you to play sports, so that's good too. Just remember, in 2 years you will be 18 and then you can move out. They can't stop you from going to college, and you can always rely on your dad since he wants you to go to college. Maybe starting a countdown till you turn 18 would be helpful. That way at the end of each day you can cross of a day and think wow you are one day closer.
Why did my parents made fun of my singing ?
Ok this what happened i tough my parents left to go to the store so i started singing in my room. The song i was singing was called dancing shoes by dev and once i finish the song i heard my parents left . Then i went to my brothers room and i told him if my parents hear me sing and they said yes that they stared laughing :( i feel so embarrassed and ashamed of my self it makes me want to delete my youtube account :( . Some people say im a good singer i don't get why my parents made fun of me or is my brother just lying just to make me mad ? My parents haven't came back and i feel what embarrassed what they are going to say of my singing it makes ma want to kill my self cause of it .Should i give up or not ?
What's your take on parents forcing their kids to play musical instruments, sports, etc they don't want to do?
for example: i was devastated when, in 3rd grade, my parents pulled me out of the dance class i'd been only briefly enrolled in (and which was what i truly loved to do and made me feel happy and good about myself as a kid) and insisted that i join the school band (which i had expressed no interest in). i wasn't good at the instrument i started playing then and didn't enjoy it at all, yet it was 6 years before they finally said i didn't have to do it anymore. i had countless other interests that i wanted to try during those ages but was never able to persuade them to enroll me in those things. i'm just using my personal story as an example of what i'm getting at. i'm not the only person to have parents who've done that. what do you think of parents who really do not give their kids any options in pursuits like that (forcing kids to play sports that they don't want to play is another thing i've heard of a lot, or preventing them from playing one they really want to play). i'm not talking of parents trying to introduce their kids to a new experience they would otherwise not have had or known about. i mean parents who take it too far and rigidly try to mold their kids into things like this, ultimately at the expense of the kid's self-esteem. thoughts? any ideas as to the motives the parents may have for doing this? i don't think it's all ill-intentioned but it doesn't seem quite right.
If your parents made you learn a skill (e.g., the piano) that you didn't enjoy as a kid but did so for your parents, would you feel any resentment later on in your life?
In my life (of over 50 years), I have met countless people who were in childhood taking piano lessons, then convinced their parents to stop, and as soon as they reached adulthood, they hated themselves (and to some extent, the parents) for not continuing. I have only met ONE single person (a Chinese American woman) who was made to take violin lessons from age 3 through high school, and as soon as she left home and started college, she never touched the instrument again.I have also met plenty of people who studied an instrument (violin, cello, piano, flute, etc) in childhood or youth, then pursued other careers, and in adulthood happily play their instrument, as a hobby, in a community orchestra or chamber ensembles.So, the answer to the question: NO. Overwhelming anecdotal evidence points to the fact that vast majority of people who were forced to take music lessons during childhood don’t regret it, and many end up enjoying making music in their adulthood, while pursuing other career. More importantly, vast majority of adults regret having abandoned an instrument during childhood (before learning to play reasonably well).So, if your parents are forcing to play the piano, trust them, you’ll thank them (and yourself) later.
My parents are making me take piano, and I don't want to. How do I tell them that?
Do you have any interest in music? If not there are some other answers that cover what you might say to them. But if you have some interest in music, just not piano, then I suggest you tough it out. Along with the piano, you will learn to read music, and how notes come together to from music. There are a number of tried and true formulas for music structure. The piano would just be a way to learn all about playing music and that applied to all instruments. Once you’ve got the basics down, you can transition to another instrument that does interest you. For example the guitar has always been more popular with the younger crowd; not to mention easier to carry one around if you want to play it somewhere like around a campfire.In any case your parents probably just want you to be well-rounded. I didn’t have much interest in learning an instrument or a foreign language when I was in school and frankly I really regret both. I did however take every shop class offered and ended up becoming an engineer. But my Mom spoke German and could have helped me, and I would love to be able to play the guitar or banjo. Both of these would have led to interacting with a wider assortment of people as I traveled through life. Sure follow your passions but don’t ignore other things that will broaden your horizons.