allowed", "knock before entering", or "stay out". These signs are hung up in hopes that .
people will read and comply with the demands. Teens also know in the back of their .
minds that a peice of paper is not going to stop anyone from entering their rooms. For .
instance, my cousin who is in junior high school would come home from school and .
immediately go to her room. She would automatically start searching it for misplaced .
objects or any kind of evidence that someone had been in her room. She hid her diary in a .
carefully selected spot, and laid it down exactly how she wanted it. She even marked the .
pages a certain way, so she could tell if anyone had read it or not. If she had the slightest .
notion that anyone had invaded her space, her temper would get the best of her and rage .
out of control! Every time she would confront her parents it would end up in an argument, .
and then she would run to her room and slam the door. Her parents finally got sick of .
hearing the door slam and took it off the hinges.
Not only are bedrooms a privacy fight with teens, so are a lot of other things in .
their lives. When teens have their own cars they want their parents to stay out of them, .
and not snoop around. They want to talk on the telephone without anyone easedropping .
on their conversation. In junior high and high school, who gets to see the grade card first .
is a debate. For example, there were two times a year my best freind would race home to .
recieve the mail first, report card time! The report cards were sealed up tight, and .
addessed to the parent of the student. My best friend and her parents would always bump .
heads every time this situation would come around. She felt since they were her grades .
then they were her buisness, and she should be able to open them first. Her parents felt .
since she lived under their roof and she was a minor, that they should be the ones to open .
it first. After all, it was addessed to them.