Girls are more corrigible

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Sugar and spice and everything nice… are these what teenage girls are made of? While a recent study states that girls at a certain age are actually more difficult to raise as they are more quarrelsome and argumentative, city teenage girls beg to differ pointing out that compared to boys, they face much more restrictions from their parents.
They say that in spite of arguments, more often than not they tow their parents’ line. Soumya Susan, a 19-year-old, says, “I once wanted to cut my hair really short because I was at an experimenting stage, but my mom asked me to wait for a while. I was dying to get my hair cut, but she wouldn’t agree. I even showed her photographs of some latest hair styles. I was furious that she wouldn’t let me have my way. But once I cooled down, I realised that she only wanted me to concentrate on my academics at that time. Sometimes I have issues when she doesn’t let me stay out for long or I don’t get permission to go somewhere, but I always understand later why my mom says that.”
Girls feel that boys enjoy freedom and hardly ever care for restrictions laid down by parents and that looks evident from what some teenage boys have to say. “I feel lucky I am not a girl because I don’t have to face the kind of restrictions girls face. I generally go out for outings or get-togethers and even if my parents ask me to come back early, I don’t really listen to them,” says Ashish Dande, a 17-year-old. R. Kartik, an 18-year-old, concurs, “I go out almost everyday with friends and stay out late at night too. I especially love going for slumber parties. Most of the times, my parents are not too happy about it, but I need to do my own thing. Eventually, they give in.”
Most parents wouldn’t think much before saying a “yes” to their son pleading to go for a party, but it’s a different story when it comes to girls. Even when a daughter moves away from home to study outside, parents are forever worried about her well-being and constantly phone her enquiring about her whereabouts.
J. Samyukta, an 18-year-old, says she would compare the freedom her brother got and would quarrel with her parents over it. “My brother would be out for dinners and partied a lot. My parents were very cool about permitting him to go out. When I wanted to go for a music concert with my friends, they asked me to get back in an hour! How can a concert end in an hour? Usually I give in, but when my parents impose restrictions on my brother, he doesn’t ever listen to them.”