WOULD YOU DARE? OPEN-COMMUNICATION WITH THE FAMILY= NO SECRETS. NO LIES

Rahameliza, dela Pena
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                 Mom‘Mom, Dad, Im pregnant. And I just met the guy in the bar. We had a one night stand.’
                 How can we, teenagers, actually open this king of thing to our parents? Is it really necessary to be open and hold no secrets to our parents?
               
 ‘Yeah parents know what’s best for us, but there are things that we need to solve first by ourselves before letting our parents to get involved.’ Said the 17 year old Catherine when asked if its okay to be open to her parents everything aboput her.
                Teenagers nowadays get the comfort zones of their secrets more to their friends than to their parents. We can’t blame ones who preffered to keep somethings ot to not say some secrets to their parents. Parents are so protective to the point that they will offer to solve their children’s problems with their own choice of solutions. In that way, they leave their children with no power to stand on their own and make a decision for their own betterment.
                  Don’t make lies, though white lies are common for us teen agers, we should should give our parents the secutiry and peace of mind that we are still doing the right things in our own ways.
                 No more secrets? Can we really make a stand that we’ll have a ‘secret-free’ relationship with our parents? Well for Ella, a 13 year old highschool student, admitted that she keeps little secrets to her parents and it doesn’t make any conflict on their relationship.
                Being open to our parents doesn’t only mean to keep no secret and say all things to them, but saying those things on the perfect time. Give yourself first the opporunity to stand on your own and develop your own streghts before giving your parents the right to get involve in every details of your life.
It’s not being bad, it’s being a teacher to yourself and proving to your parents that they rais