Do They really understand?

Although our parents were once teenagers themselves, sometimes it seems like they skipped this critical phase in life. The phase were we tamper with the dangerous and forbidden, find that high school sweetheart, make our own mistakes and disregard the realities of life because we are young. Our parents have been through this phase and at times my own parents tell me stories of times were they have totally disregarded the words of their own parents and simply enjoyed being young and foolish. They recited stories of how they sneaked to the movie theaters late at night, went to the club, there past teenage relationships.. etc. It surprises me when they tell me stories of this nature but when it comes down to me and these types of actions its like writing myself a death sentence. Even speaking of a boy will get my mom riled up, not to mention saying that I want to got out with one. I just wish that they can try to understand that they can't teach me everything through their mistakes. In order to truly learn my lessons I have to make the mistakes my self. Because you can never know how something really feels until you feel it your self.