If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.
I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.
Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan. And very violent films were a way for me to rebel. You have to rebel against your parents.
If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.
I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.
I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
Our society is set up in a way that's so against the natural state of nature, and the way it's all initially intended to be. I kind of have to - not rebel, but peacefully rebel, in a sense - and do my part to protect it, regardless of the way that society is set up.
I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.
I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.