Why Do Teenagers Argue With Their Parents?

Yes, it's a time of life when you aren't really worried about danger, isn' t it? Also, it's an age when you've realised your parents don't know everything, which can temporarily lead you to believe they don't know anything! There is also I think this sense of turning more towards your friends/ peers, because these are the people you will be spending your life with...of course, your peers at that age haven't necessarily got a lot of sense!

If you are dealing with a teen at the moment, you might like a look at these tips.

Because they think they know better, they forget you were teenagers once as well and will not take good advice.  It's all part of growing up, you have to let them make their own mistakes and just be there if they need you.  Also try not to take the 'I told you so' attitude with them, all that will do is make them less likely to come to you for advice or help later on in life.

Thanks for reminding me about the "I told you so attitude".

Of course it is because we DON'T KNOW WHAT WERE TALKING ABOUT !  Most kids these days don't have direction in their lives and live as adults.  I have to argue all the time with mine but keeping my children safe and well is my number one priority and I care less about attitudes.  They'll thank us in the end.

Because its our natural reaction to argue against our parents. Why should they tell us what to do with every aspect of our lives when in actual fact, its our life to be lived by us. We completely understand your need to worry and care about us, we like that you do, but still, that doesn't justify your need to be so clingy and irritable when we wish to stay out until 10 instead of 9. The majority of kids today are very independent and wish to take our route instead of yours, thus finding out about life for ourselves.

I think teenagers argue with thier parents because they think that their parents don't understand what they are going through but they fail to realize that their parents were also teenagers and they don't want them to make the same mistakes they did!!!!