Parenting

Parent's seem so confused on how to treat their kids after they reach the age of 13. They're not kids, and they're not adults, and worst of all very few of them can even manage to act as mature as most adults can. They seem stumped when it comes to trying to find the right way to treat them, or what responsibility's they can be given. I don't see what's so difficult about it, when the answer is looking you right in the face, literally. Treat us like teenagers, we're not adults or kids, we are right in the middle. The responsibility's you give to us should be based on what you think we can handle, not what we are suppose to be able to handle. We can write and act and sound mature, but we may not be mature. It's a difficult thing for us to want to become adults when you make it sound or look or feel so horrible. Give us the opportunity to look at the good and the bad. Let us experience the joys of freedom, and pressure of having to take responsibility for our actions. We need to feel this in order to want to grow up. We can't live at home forever can we?