Today’s TED talk speaker, Kimber Lybbert, she stood on children’s side to tell adults how exactly children want grown-ups to treat them. So today I want to talk about it.
We need our parents to take care of us when we were young babies but we want them to trust us that we have the ability to take care of ourselves when we’ve grown up. We have our own thoughts and personality, we want to make our own decisions. So we want them to treat us like adults. But most parents still think we are kids and always plan everything for us. My parents also do that when I was 12 or 13 years old. I was thinking, I stayed in a residential school since I was in kindergarten, I had the ability to handle myself. So I always argued with them at that time. After a half year, they might think it was the time to be hands-off on somethings so I was being treated as a young adult. As time goes by, I do really think I can make some big decisions so I live in America by myself now. My parents more can’t interfere with my affairs since I came here.
The outside world is wonderful but loneness and helplessness are not. I didn’t think that was a big deal until I got a phone fraud and almost gave my money to them, I begin to be scared. I felt so helpless that didn’t know what to do. I called my parents and cried loudly. They finally realized I was still a teenager. And I also realized I still couldn’t handle all the problems, I still need them.
As teenagers, I totally agree parents trust us and give our own power but we always should remember parents will always be the people who we can depend on, no matter how old we are.