Non-supportive parents

1. You're a kid, respect your parents.
2. You should be sleeping, not getting up and working on YouTube at 4am. Don't tell me you went to bed at 8pm the preceding night. The lack of sleep will screw with your grades and destroy your future.
3. When you move out at 18 you will find yourself in a crap apartment, working 2 jobs just to make rent and food AND have no more time for YouTube. Now who is sticking up the finger now? Think man. Talk to your parents, ask them when you can edit for your YouTube channel. Make clear that it is a passion, but also make clear that school and getting good grades is your #1 priority.

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RESPECT YOUR PARENTS!
 
TheDutchTexan said:
3. When you move out at 18 you will find yourself in a crap apartment, working 2 jobs just to make rent and food AND have no more time for YouTube. Now who is sticking up the finger now? Think man. Talk to your parents, ask them when you can edit for your YouTube channel. Make clear that it is a passion, but also make clear that school and getting good grades is your #1 priority.

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RESPECT YOUR PARENTS!
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Here here! It takes at least 10 years of slogging it out daily to build a life close to what you leave when you're 18. I think you can't realize that though until you actually do it. Part of it is unfair because rent is for suckers and it is a rip off. You also have to earn a decent position which doesn't happen right away. Even when you get there you can always lose it all in a day too
 
I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope that things get better over time. In the meantime, show them you are still doing your school work and have a plan at some general career (This can be made up so they're happy) for example I'm going to school and finishing my sociology degree which is what I tell everyone I want to do so they don't batter me about doing YouTube. It's just a cover.
I hope they can eventually see the potential in film making and just art in general. Good luck.
 
I feel like there's more to it than what you posted, but if it isn't talk to your dad. Tell him you got ready before hand and that you're just trying trying to gain experience, maybe even build an audience which then could lead to job deals later down the line or at the very least be used as a portfolio. I really hope things work out for you man.
TheDutchTexan said:
1. You're a kid, respect your parents.
2. You should be sleeping, not getting up and working on YouTube at 4am. Don't tell me you went to bed at 8pm the preceding night. The lack of sleep will screw with your grades and destroy your future.
3. When you move out at 18 you will find yourself in a crap apartment, working 2 jobs just to make rent and food AND have no more time for YouTube. Now who is sticking up the finger now? Think man. Talk to your parents, ask them when you can edit for your YouTube channel. Make clear that it is a passion, but also make clear that school and getting good grades is your #1 priority.

and

RESPECT YOUR PARENTS!
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There's so many successful people that dropped out of highschool, let alone just did poorly in. School is important but the fact that majority of kids nowadays have thoughts of suicide because of it then the system needs to change. If his grades were slipping/just having general problems in school then yeah his Dad should've talked to him. But if they aren't and his dad just doesn't want him to get into film making/think that youtube is stupid then this was completely out of line. I could see if it was something that the dad bought but he paid for it with his own money. You do not own your children, they are people too and should be respected as such.
 
Orion Blue said:
I feel like there's more to it than what you posted, but if it isn't talk to your dad. Tell him you got ready before hand and that you're just trying trying to gain experience, maybe even build an audience which then could lead to job deals later down the line or at the very least be used as a portfolio. I really hope things work out for you man.


There's so many successful people that dropped out of highschool, let alone just did poorly in. School is important but the fact that majority of kids nowadays have thoughts of suicide because of it then the system needs to change. If his grades were slipping/just having general problems in school then yeah his Dad should've talked to him. But if they aren't and his dad just doesn't want him to get into film making/think that youtube is stupid then this was completely out of line. I could see if it was something that the dad bought but he paid for it with his own money. You do not own your children, they are people too and should be respected as such.
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"My house my rules" applies as long as a child lives with the parents. He probably pushed the envelope. There is no way a father would flip out like that out of the blue. Perhaps he was editing without headphones, perhaps he turned on the lights that shined underneath the door waking him up, or perhaps he flushed a toilet for the umpteenth time in the middle of the night. You don't own your children, but you are responsible for them. And one thing kids should be doing at night is sleeping.
 
TheDutchTexan said:
"My house my rules" applies as long as a child lives with the parents. He probably pushed the envelope. There is no way a father would flip out like that out of the blue. Perhaps he was editing without headphones, perhaps he turned on the lights that shined underneath the door waking him up, or perhaps he flushed a toilet for the umpteenth time in the middle of the night. You don't own your children, but you are responsible for them. And one thing kids should be doing at night is sleeping.
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No way? I just want to point out that there are indeed abusive parents out there. Neither of us have all the information and are just making assumptions. Maybe there was a good reason, maybe there wasn't. All I know that I have friends that have to go to therapy in their adult life because of abusive parents who stripped them of their sense of self and left them a shell of a person. Nurture your children, not stifle them.
 
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sorry to here that bro. Sometimes parents just don't support it because it's not what they want you to do. But it's not there choice of what you do, you should be able to do what ever your heart desires. The only reason I feel a parent would stop you from doing something is becasue they think its harmful to you but this odviously is not. Good luck man!
 
Orion Blue said:
No way? I just want to point out that there are indeed abusive parents out there. Neither of us have all the information and are just making assumptions. Maybe there was a good reason, maybe there wasn't. All I know that I have friends that have to go to therapy in their adult life because of abusive parents who stripped them of their sense of self and left them a shell of a person. Nurture your children, not stifle them.
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Sure there are, but I am not going to assume that just because some teenager cries wolf over the internet by having their laptop taken in the middle of the night.
 
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