What do middle schoolers think about their parents?

Answer 1

Middle school age children assume that their parents don't understand them and want to ruin their lives.

This is hardly ever true and one of the factors of growing up is coming to the realization that they were not only almost always right, but also probably understood you pretty accurately as well, (whether they voiced it or not). In that stage of life you believe you have quite a bit figured out, when you realistically still have a lot to discover about yourself and those around you. A middle schooler's parents have been through that stage of life and more often than not will try to passionately implement various structures on the middle schooler that they might not understand, but this is totally out of love, it's about giving their child a middle school experience that they wished they could have had.

In this technological day and age, it is ever harder to find privacy. Something that middle schoolers like is a private space and/or computer away from their parents so they can try to develop and grow without parental influence (which tends not to happen in the end by the way). They want to rebel, and naturally a parent who thinks they're giving good life advice doesn't want to be disagreed with, this causes frictions between middle schoolers and their parents, especially between those who don't want to grant their child a private area away from family.

Most middle schoolers have a sort of 'love hate' relationship with their parents, because most parents will fight for their middle school child when it's necessary, but also punish them and sometimes become enraged with passion, often against the middle schooler's wishes.