Is 17 too young or not?
It seems that it would depend on who you asked this question to. My parents seems to think that 17 is too young to stay home alone on Spring Break. Not that they won't end up letting me do it anyways but just that I'm too young to handle it. I disagree I've stayed home alone many times and nothing has ever gone wrong. Even on the off chance that something had gone wrong various members of extended family and friends live near enough to come to my rescue. What makes a week different from 4 days? It is only 3 days longer and I'll do the same things I do while always home alone. So why the hesitation?
Because apparently at 17 you are old enough to drive past midnight and to graduate, and like me, even enter college. You are old enough to do so many things but apparently staying home alone over Spring Break is too much to ask from my parents. It isn't even like they are going someplace fun that I would even remotely want to go. They are going to Virginia so that my brothers can surf and they can go see some people that my parents used to know.
My dad is being resonable about the whole staying home situation and keeps telling my mom that I would be ok. But my mom seems to think that I'm like going to run away to Europe or something (which I don't have the resources to pull off by the way). And everytime I bring it up she always asks why I'm pushing so hard to stay home. "hmm...mom i don't know because I don't want to go!!!!" But in her mind she honestly thinks that I'm going to throw a rave. But then I point out that I don't have enough money to buy the keg. Which I think is funny but apparently she doesn't find amusing. Then she brings up that I could go anywhere I want and they would never know, at which point I remind her that I offered to let her take my keys with them on vacation so therefore I wouldn't be able to go anywhere unless I called my aunt to come get me. But apparently that was a bad idea too.
I just don't understand how they can expect me to go off to college in the fall and live without them (for much more than a week) but I can't stay home for a week by myself. Even though most likely there would be someone there with me pretty much everynight.
I don't know what else I can offer up to get her to see it my way. I don't find riding for 14 + hours in a car with my brothers fighting each other and my parents fighting over directions just to go spend a week with some people that I haven't seen since I was 6.
Any ideas?
Spend time with your family while you still can.
: )
I am 18, but only since November. I've stayed home alone many a times, but my reasoning falls on the fact that I moved away to school while I was still 17. Last September my mother helped me move all my things to Louisville, KY to be in an apartment with 3 other girls. It wasn't a dorm, but we did have rules just as if I were alone with my friends for vacation. My mother has also left me alone for nearly a week pretty much by myself because I had chosen to take a summer course in Math and I couldn't miss a day. You're parents are probably just worried, it's normal, but don't think too much on it because it's probably nothing personal.
They should give you this Spring Break as a test run. If you prove yourself, which I trust that you will, given at least the chance for chrissake. Plus, it's not like you'll be cut off from them, they can still call and check up :] Just handle it maturely. If they say no, accept it, don't throw a tantrum bc that's works REVERSE. You'll have other chances---> the summer's coming up.
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luckily they did decide to leave me home. It was fun for me to have time away from my chaotic family. And I think that I really did prove myself. The house was cleaner when they got home then it was when they left. And I managed not to come unraveled or die.
As for them calling to check up: they didn't even do that. Which I thought was a little bit strange given their uneasiness with leaving me home.
Oh well, who am I to complain.
It could be because your parents don't see you as being mature enough to be on your own yet. I had just turned 17 when my mom left me at home for a week, but I know if one of my cousins (assuming she's 17) asked her dad to stay home by herself for a week, he would say "no" -- and with good reason. She's not really mature enough for being alone by herself for that long. I'm not saying that's YOUR problem, I'm just saying it could be that's what they think.
Spend time with them and show them otherwise! :]
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my family and I have never been on the best terms. my parents would never let me stay home alone when I was younger, unless they left me home to babysit my little brother while they went. I never understood their reasoning for feeling like I can't be trusted alone. and throughout high school they would would always make sure someone was home when I got home from school. But now that I'm in college I'm constantly coming home to an empty house, wondering "where has my family gone?"
being trusted and left home alone is alot different than coming home to no one. you may not agree with why you can't be left home alone, but be thankful that they don't want you to have to be alone
Maybe your mum wasn’t all that innocent when she was 17, ask her?
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