ok, heres the deal.
i’ve been very lucky to go a lot of places (traveling) beause my dad works(ed) at an airline, so cheap deals. but my parents are pretty laid back about some stuff, and some stuff they wont go for. my mom wouldn’t let me skip school today (3 hour class, and I’d be watching presentations) to go to work. But, thats over with… now…
My friend proposed the idea of going to the domincian republic for summer vacation. Now, I think i have enough money… (looking at some travel sites for rates just to get rough idea) and they are pretty much under what I have saved up. And lets not forget this is MY money. That I earned. Shouldn’t I spend it the way I want? Ok, so any advice on how I can get my parents to go along with this? We’ve been to the dominican before, and I think they liked it. But I’m 17 now, and I wanna do MY own things. Not hang around with my parents… you know? I need to find the perfect time to ask them, but I’m almost certain they will say no. The only reason they would say no is because of the money.
I have money saved up in another account for tution next year, but they still want me to pay some more… so I dont know what to do. And I know that they trust my friend, he’s really close with them (and also 21) …
When I was 17, and wanted to take a trip to Baja California with a friend, I made up my itinerary, along with what hotels I would stay in, and showed them my budget…
They totally surprised me by saying yes!
My advice is to have everything planned out with your friend on paper, then ask your parents if they have any ideas to improve on it…
if you handle it responsibly by showing them that you have things planned out, you have been responsible enough to save money and save for tuition which is mroe then most 17 year olds and you are going with some one you adn they trust.
I would do what rev said and if your parents are reasonable and they have no reasons to not trust you then they should say yes!
Good Luck
great advice unc… ::interpret sarcasm here:: especially for someone with 1 post…
I take it you and your parents aren’t very involved in each other’s lives… too bad.
No one, parent or not, will appreciate that kind of attitude…
BTW - please don’t use chat speak… it really only takes seconds more for you to be understood by all here. And speed doesn’t make a bit of difference here…
*Originally posted by UNCfan39jb *
**Good Luck. I die if i had ur parents. Jus go and dont look back. jus leave. do wat u want. **
Great advice. And when you get into major trouble who the hell is gonna help you get out of it!!! Have you any idea of what living alone implies (stuff like rent, food etc for which you need a job) - you spend most of your time working to cover the bills and very little time left for anything else…
Sad how children today think that parents are their enemies :*(
i love hanging out with my mom. we go shopping and she buys me stuff because “you never ask for anything, so i want to get you something”. she also the person that will give me the most honest advice.
my dad is pretty much whipped by me and my sister. we can get him to do anything for us.
My dad is an absolute angel - does anyhting we ask him for (even though he grumbles about living with 4 women - I have another 2 sisters and my mom - he’s absolutely convinced that he has to buy a tampon factory :P) and my mom is great - we also go shopping - and I can talk to her about anything…
my dad is such a baby. he’s always complaining about how he never has any “word” in anything and that we women rule everything. so we back down and let him think he has the upper hand.
although, we get into plenty of arguments. and i’m kind of a smartass and like to challenge my dad’s opinions about certain topics. he’s very patriotic (croatian) and is always criticizing me for assimilating too much to american culture. so when i listen to my “american” music he always tells me i should listen to more croatian music, aka the music he listens to (overly patriotic croatian music). it makes my head hurt. it all goes from there. sometimes he gets so worked up that it’s funny.
I also get into major arguments with my dad mainly because we both are stubborn as hell . dad’s Welsh and has the temper to go with it and i’m the worst mixture possible Welsh and Romanian in other words very passionate (like mediterraneans) and a great big temper.
viper if you want to have a nice summer vacation with less hassle than goin to the dominican republic, come to puerto rico and we could hang you could stay at one of the hotels in the san juan area and go to clubs and beaches and on the weekends we could hang out id pick you and youre friend and we could go chill and get drunk and meet girls it be a blast bsides we coudl meet and take pics and post em afterwards so what ya think??? let me know im sure we would have some major fun man :beam:
reverendflash
That’s great advice. I’m gonna talk to my friend tonight, and see what he says. I realllllllly want to go. I can tell I would have more fun then when I was with my parents, my friend is a crazy mofo.
rere420
I don’t think my parents think of me as responsible. Haha. But I think they are trying not to screw me up like they did my brother.
**UNCfan39jb **
…anyways
grimdeath
ahha, nah. i think my friend is pretty set on going to the republic, he owns land down there (just land, so its not like we can stay there… lol) and yea, I loved it when I was there. (except that I got burned real bad and couldn’t go swimming, and was constantly scratching myself, dont ask :))
. dad’s Welsh and has the temper to go with it and i’m the worst mixture possible Welsh and Romanian 
in other words very passionate (like mediterraneans) and a great big temper.