Convince Your Parents to Let You See a Movie
So you've asked your parents to let you see a movie and they said no. Here are some tips on how you can convince them otherwise!
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Steps
- Find out all you can about the movie. Ratings are important, and the reasons for each rating. Also, find the date of the movie. A PG-rating in the 70's or 80's is different from a PG-rating now. That's why they came up with the rating "PG-13."
- Read reviews of the movie. Go online and find reviews of the movie at parent sites. Sites are made specifically by parents, for parents, about the content of movies.
- Act more mature. Clean your room, help out around the house, be nice to your siblings, and don't throw a tantrum if you don't get your way.
- Read first. If the movie was a book first, read the book. You might want to discuss the book with your parents.
- Ask your friends, or the parents of your friends, about their opinions of the movie. Ask your friends' parents to talk to your parents about the movie. If they won't, tell your parents yourself.
- Ask your parents if they can see it first, and screen it for you.
- Include the movie in your studies. You could try to incorporate the movie (and thus see it) into a school project. For instance, you could read the book and then see the movie, to compare differences between film and literature representations. Or you could see the movie as an example of some kind of social problem. (Like how Fight Club deals with male aggression.)
- Explain to your parents why you want to see this movie.
- Sex and nudity is probably the main thing most parents are worried about. Then comes Language, Drugs, and Violence in that order. So don't spend as much time covering language with your parents as sex and nudity!
Tips
- Show you're committed about seeing this movie.
- You know, you can just talk to them. Tell them why they should let you go, agree on rules, and take your cell phone with you if you're going without adult supervision.
- Wash their car, do all the chores, and do the laundry and anything else extra
- Don't constantly bring up the movie to your parents. They'll say no.
- Volunteer to do extra jobs around the house.
- Do everything to be mature.
- Make a sheet of paper telling all good things about the movie. Put it somewhere visible so parents will look at it while you're not there and they'll think "wow, He/she really wants to go see that movie."
- Help around the house for the whole day and agree to everything your parents ask even if you don't want to. Right before you go to bed, or after your siblings fall asleep, ask them if you can go to the movies with your friends.
- Choose an educational movie. Relate it to school and say you have to watch it.
- If you've already planned a movie with a girl or friends, tell your parents and they might change their mind.
Warnings
- Asking parents to pre-screen can backfire: now they'll really know they don't want you seeing it.
