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!@#$%, I love you, I respect you, and I agree with you in that my mother (not my father) is being very unreasonable about the whole thing. I can take care of myself. I don't need to be told to go to bed at a specific time. I know how long I need to sleep. I understand what would happen if I stayed up too late. Even if I had gone to sleep that night at the time I was 'supposed to' I would have tossed and turned for a few hours. After a summer of staying up really late, there is no way I'm about to fall asleep at 10:00. She was being ridiculous, which is why I decided to watch that movie against her permission.
Where I disagree with you however is with your "You can't make me" teenage rebellion attitude. I've never considered myself the typical average teenager, and I've never felt like I'm the person to do the typical teenage "you can't make me" act of rebellion. I've always found it a bit juvenile in a way that I have never been, and never really wanted to be. I think it may work. It might get my parents to realize that "Hey, I'm not some stupid kid that needs their constant guidance." but as you already know, my mom is ridiculous. I know my mom, and the chances of her responding to me getting on the computer in front of her, or confronting her with a "you can't make me" spiel are quite slim, to say the least. It'd only make things worse for me.
If I were to confront her, and I am considering ways of doing it other than passive insults, it certainly would have to be non-aggressive. It would have to be "Hey, I know you are upset with me for doing the exact opposite of what you told me to do, but I feel like I'm a young adult, and I'm held to certain expectations, whether it be grades, or other responsibilities. I did what I did because I should have an equal amount of freedom that comes with the responsibilities and expectations that you are holding me to. I think it is unreasonable for you to be dictating my bedtime, and expect the grades that I get. Do you not think I'm smart enough to know what is for my own good when it comes to something as trivial as my bedtime? I understand that you are upset simply because I disobeyed you, but I think you really need to think about what it is I actually disobeyed and why."
You know, something like that would be more likely to get through to her. She doesn't, for the most part, let anyone confront her. She'll try to cut me off, she'll address one part of it and not another more important part, or she'll go off onto some other subject. I may give it a try.
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KALOPSIA
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