Your parents are well-meaning, but that doesn’t mean you enjoy answering all their questions. You don’t like to answer, but ask they will! According to a survey by teen magazine seventeen.com, these are the 9 questions teenagers hate to be asked.
1. What did you get on your report card? Unless you got all As and Bs, you never, ever, ever want to hear this question come out of your parents’ mouth. How did they even know it was report card day? Mom and dad are going to be ticked when they sees you got a C in math. And your older (or worse, younger!brother is probably going to come home with straight As and make you look bad.
Why does it have to be you?!
2. Have you finished your chores? YES! you reply, as you desperately get to them hoping they do not come to check anytime soon. But you had good intentions – yes, you did! – you had planned to start after watching just one episode of your fave series – but as fave series go, one episode morphed into 10!
Put all the blame on TV producers who make indescribably good series!
3. Why didn’t you accept my friend request on Facebook? Because you are a parent and parents shouldn’t have Facebook pages! That, and you knowing for a fact that one of two unbearable things is bound to happen if you are friends with your parents on Facebook:
1) They will constantly leave super embarrassing comments on your pictures, and/or 2) They will constantly inquire about where you were, with whom, and when certain pictures were taken.
4. How did your test go? Even if you totally blew it, you are going to say “fine,” so what’s the point of asking when they know you won’t find out until you get your test back. What do they think you are going to say? Bad? You are not gonna say that. You would rather choke!
5. Where do you see yourself in _____ years? Some days, when you have had an amazing day and you aced that exam you studied weeks for, you see yourself being a top level executive at the company of your dreams with a crazy salary.
Then again, when things are just not going well, and it feels like everything and everyone is ganging up against you; you may begin to think you are not that hot after all. So yeah, how about we just wait and see what happens?
6. Is that your booooyfriend/giiiiirlfriend? You have no clue why your parents don’t understand that if you don’t tell them, it’s because you just can’t tell them!
It’s not that you want to keep secrets, it’s just that you can’t get your brain and vocal cords to cooperate and come up with an answer! Or are you keeping secrets?
7. How late were you up watching TV? Your mind is like: “Don’t ask questions you don’t want to hear the answers to.”
8. What does “on fleek” mean? *cringes inside* Nothing good can come from answering this. Either you will tell them what it means, and they will immediately start raging about how stupid it is and how they just don’t understand teens these days, or they will try to be cool and hip and start using said word in every day conversation (the infinitely worse possibility).
9. Are you sexually active? Sex? What is sex? I have never heard of such a thing. La la la. *runs away* And even if you aren’t, and the thought has never crossed your mind; you still answer guiltily – like somehow you have done something wrong!
Do you agree with this assessment? Any that ought to be on the list?
