tell them to go fuck themselves.....thats what i did when they said they wouldnt let me go for my license unless i got my hair cut.
Be a little realist. Wear shoes. take them off when you have enough power to ignore society's comments and judgements on you (and your barefootness) and when u can buy yourself a new computer. (Yes you're an individual. You're only 14. And keep in mind that the thoughts change rapidly)
Whats this pop-motto? "be your own person" you dont become ur own person at the age of 14, (without having read 20 books). You run the risk of being a "wannabe" if you try the MTV mottos and want to "be your own person" at that age.
Wow that really sucks, my dad would ground me if i didn't say "yes ma'am or no' ma'am , yes sir no sir". which may have not been a big deal to say but it wasn't a rule til' he got remarried when i was 11. I didn't see the point and i told my dad that. he didn't like that too much.
dont know why i put that in there......but dont change your ways just because your parents dont like it. Start doing that and youll be a lot easier pushed around by other people, in school, work etc etc.
I sorta have to agree with Maes. I think that you might want to try and talk to your parents about comprimising however you are 14 and you do live in your parents house. I never told my parents what I was going/not going to do when I was 14. I tried to do somethings my own way but for the most part I showed them respect. They had certain rules and I had to follow them. Now I have my own family and my own rules. Maybe one day you will have your own family and rules and you will understand maybe a lil' better as to why your parents are enforcing some things the way they do. Try talking with them about it. Maybe you could ask them why they feel the way they do about you going barefoot.
I get what you mean man but at the age of 14 you're nothing but your dream world, peter pan and the "harsh" problem of getting up early in the morning for school. I think, peanuts has said the wisest of all. If you (the starter of this thread) walk up to your parents and tell the dilemma you're in, about complying to their commands and choosing your own decision and ask them which way would be the best and why, I bet your parents would talk (secretly) about how grown up you really are and how you started to judge people and things free from your benefits and losses (that is objectively) and have a sense of empathy (you also think as if you were a parent yourself). 13-14 are just the ages when kids leave their super-ego phases. They start to understand that the world has not been created for themselves alone. So if you can show that you can get the matter beyond a personal pride survival, then you'd have taken a great step in their eyes to convincing them in entrusting you with more complex issues. And you would less likely get answers "Bcuz I said so" Now be a big girl
You can be yourself and still compromise. Life is full of compromises, not everything can be 100% your way.
it is kinda funny, though. all this over not wearing shoes? i never wore shoes either. my mother never did, being a quasi hippie when she was young. besides, she had 9 toes, no shoes were comfortable. the bottoms of our feet are like mocassins. i've taught my man to go without shoes, too. he never gets athlete's foot anymore. shoes are the devil.
When my mom told me to do something I just flat out ignored her and when my dad tried to do something about it I beat his ass.
hehe, my mom cant do anything about me going barefoot, she just sighs and says "It's the hillbilly blood I swear...", and she doesn't have many problems with what I do because she believes the same things and used to be a hippy, guess I was just blessed