As human beings, we should have the rights to eat, to speech, to vote and to be free, but today, I want to talk about teenagers’ right: the right to have privacy.
In China, teenagers are usually treated as little child; parents insist that their children should let them know every privacy, including their diaries and the contents of their phone calls. For me, before I opened a QQ account, my parents will check my diaries even though I had a lock on my diaries. Therefore, I didn’t have the right to keep my secrets at home. No matter how hard I tried to send a signal that I was already an adult, my parents always told me that it was the best way to protect me from being hurt. However, I did not agree with my parents. The reason why I write diary is only because I want to release my feelings secretly; the contents in my diaries have nothing to do with my security. Teenagers already have their abilities to distinguish whether one thing is good or bad.
Parents want to protect their children from being hurt, but at the same time, it is unwise to look through all of their children’s secrets. Teenagers also have the right to have secrets.
Such things that you said in your blog did not happen to me before，but I think that you are right！We teenagers have our rights and privacy，which is only kept by ourselves；our parents should respect our privacy~
ReplyDeleteI think the case is very common in China, because parents are used to controllong everything about their children. In my opinion, as teenagers, the best way to solve this problem is to let the parents know that they are already adults through their behaviors.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child, my mother liked to look my diary. As a result, I only write it in computer now and set my password... I really think highly of my privacy and hope this kind of situation will be changed in China.
ReplyDeleteI feel lucky these things did not happen to me. Actually, it happened to many teenagers. I think because of chinese traditions, parents take it for granted that they should konw details of children's daily life.
ReplyDeleteI feel lucky that my parents did not require to read my diary. What you mentioned is common in Chinese family, but I believe when it is the time for our generation to be parents, we will repect our children's privacy as what we want from our parents.
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