No it's not! How many of us teenagers have to deal with our asshole parents saying that?! Ok, well now I have some ADULTS who are saying stuff about them. :D -love love love-

Skillet sings [The Last Night]:

Male voice: "Your parents say everything is your fault
But they don't know you like I know you
They don't know you at all"

Female voice: "I'm so sick of when they say
It's just a phase you'll be ok
You're fine"

Male voice: "But I know it's all lies!
This is the last night you'll spend alone
Look me in the eyes so I know you know...."

Listen to it- it's awesome. <3333333333333



AH HA! AND! That's one of my favorite songs now, but get this:

From an interview between TBB [magazine?] and Laurie Halse Anderson, the author of Speak:

TBB: "Melinda seems to have a practically nonexistent relationship with her parents. They both work a lot and don't pay much attention to her or each other. Yet, you would think at least one of them would wonder about the scars on her bitten lips, her silence, her sudden downslide of grades, and severe lack of friends. Do you think parents sometimes ignore what seems to be painfully obvious signs of problems?"

LHA: "I think all parents of teenagers should strike the word "phase" from their vocabulary. You know, "It's just a phase," "She's going through a phase, that's how teenagers are." That's crap. When parents say things like that, I think it means they don't understand what is going on in their kid's life, and they are too ignorant or scared to find out. I am floored by the behavior that parents will ignore. Why give birth to someone and spend 15 years of your life raising them just to abandon them when they need you the most? This really pisses me off. Obviously."