My parents are quite strict. My siblings and I aren’t allowed to have social media unless we write a convincing proposal and are above the age of 13, which is reasonable. We have a camera in our kitchen because of my habit of taking food at night. Some rules only apply to me though. All my electronics have a screen time, and I can’t have them in my room after I say I’m going to bed. I’ve been banned from shows like Criminal Minds, Law and Order, etc. because I didn’t want to cross the street at 11:00 at night in pitch black darkness (I have extreme anxiety, and I had a panic attack that night because I was so scared), and I am also banned from YouTube (during virtual learning I watched during the school day and my mom found out and banned me, even though it hadn’t been affecting my grades or performance in school in any way). Now, I (14F) have been attending in person school this year. My sister (17F) recently got her driver’s license in December. In my school district, the high school and middle school are directly across from each other, meaning my sister has been driving me in the mornings. Now obviously, when my alarm goes off, I hit snooze. However both my sister and I have been getting up at the last second, except we haven’t been late once, and have maintained straights As all year so far. Naturally, weekends are those little breaks between 7 hour day school weeks, when you can sleep in and stay up a bit later. But my parents have decided to take that extra sleep luxury away from my sister and I, saying if we can’t get ourselves up during the week, we can’t sleep in during the weekends. So is it wrong to be mad at them for that, or am I just being over dramatic?
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Since you haven’t been late once and you are both getting straight A’s, I think it’s pretty unreasonable that your parents feel the need to control your weekends too. I don’t think it’s wrong to be mad at them about this, but it sounds like they run a pretty tight ship. Maybe you could suggest a compromise: you and your sister go to bed a little earlier on school nights so you stop hitting the snooze button so much and maybe you’ll get your weekends back. Good Luck!
