It annoys me a lot right now. My parents blocked the Internet for me on my PC, Playstation and on my mobile phone. I'm 16 and no longer a small child. Besides, it's holidays and you can't go out. They even restrict my cell phone. I can't write or make phone calls with friends. Today my father gave me a few lessons, but I don't want to. I don't want a children's internet block during the vacation. In addition, my father always looks at my internet history on his FritzBox app and what else I have done. My mother comes into my room every twenty minutes to see what I'm doing or to complain that I gamble so much. But what else should I do? You can't meet friends and you can't really go out. Today my mother somehow logged into my Snapchat account and looked at all the pictures and also saw some that she shouldn't necessarily see. I have zero privacy and my parents treat me like a little kid. When I ask them why they are doing this, they have no reason.
Your parents certainly have reasons for this - even if you don't like them and / or you see them as nonsensical.
They worry that you gamble too much, that you end up on pages where you have no business, that you run into "wrong" people on the Internet… There are 1001 dangers in the WWW - even if you are 16 of course denies and one would of course never fall into such traps.
In addition to the Internet, there are many other activities - reading, handicrafts, making music, board games, studying, tidying up rooms, helping around the house, going for a walk, jogging, listening to music…
And if you do have a few hours of internet - why are you complaining? You really don't need that all day…
How about if you put yourself a little more into the household?
But don't ask now what to do. There's always something to do. And if necessary, you can also learn something, because the holidays are over.
At the moment you sound like a lot of kiddies your age. They consider themselves totally independent.
You write yourself that you can no longer do without a cell phone or PC / console. And that your parents will control you for a reason.
Vlt. Don't trust you. Personally, I would describe your parents' behavior as very abusive.
I have zero privacy
But you are entitled to it.
When I ask questions like this, I always feel like I'm being led a bit on the ice.
Basically, I also think that for normal circumstances your parents are too much in control and influence.
But now I don't know why your parents do that?
As a mother of adult children and experience in working in the parents' forum at our school, as in my job, I can understand in various situations that such intervention is sometimes simply necessary to protect or raise one's children, or to control them, or of bad influence to be held at least temporarily.
It's bad when you can't get busy without the internet. Your father gives you a few hours, you act stubborn and don't want to. Typical puberty 😉, your own fault.
Why can't you go out It's not forbidden. You can go jogging or go for a long bike ride, it clears your mind. You don't have to sit in your room all day and complain that you can't access the internet.
Your parents don't just do it for no reason, there's certainly a background story that you would of course prefer to keep from us.
