My parents just told me (18m) that starting tomorrow they are going to enforce a 10pm bedtime. They say that this is because of my bad grades and my ‘attitude’. But I think that this new rule is totally unfair, I’m not a child.
I told them that my grades are my responsibility and that I am an adult now, and that I don’t have to follow their rules. Like the last time I had a bedtime was when I was 13 years old, and that it would be unfair to treat me like a little kid with a 10pm bedtime.
My parents said that they are tired of me staying up on my phone way past midnight, and that catching me awake at 4am on a school night proved that I couldn’t be trusted. They said that if I act like a child they will treat me like one. They even said that me pushing back on a bedtime proved that I was immature and needed one, and that if I continued to argue that they would take my phone.
I just don’t think it is fair that I will have a bedtime at 18 years old, especially an early 10pm bedtime (even worse because I will have to start getting ready for bed at 9pm). I think I will just ignore the rule, but I don’t know. Bedtime starts tomorrow so I’ll see what you guys say and decide what to do.
YTA. You have been demonstrating to them that you are not responsible enough to manage your own bedtime, so they are acting accordingly. The fact that you stay up until 4 on a school night only proves that you are not, in fact, an adult. Behave like an adult and they’ll start treating you like one.
YTA, you’re acting like a child so you’re being treated like a child. If you don’t like it then you can go pay bills and be an adult on your own.
The fact that you, at 18 years old, are coming to Reddit to whine that you think it’s unfair to not be allowed to stay up playing on your phone until 4 am on school nights while your grades are tanking, proves you’re really immature and need to be treated like a child and have a bedtime imposed.
YTA.