Should an 11 year old be able to go out with friends

but this thing is when I'm all done my homework and I have watched tv for an hour (which is the limit) and my friend asks me to go to the park down the street and my parents say no how do you think I feel

What is a parent's primary responsibility? Is it to make you always feel good or is it to guide you to adulthood with the ability to survive on your own? Good parenting starts with a little baby that can do nothing for themselves and gradually transferring control over their life to them over about 22 years. I agree that some parents make the transition too slowly but the risks involved in being too slow are nowhere as great as releasing control too quickly.

The way for you to get through this is to be responsible and make good choices in your friends. When they gain confidence that more freedom will not affect your performance in school, they will lighten up.

If you can have civil discussions of their feelings without making it an argument, that will help.

There main concern is school. That going out with friends is going to change who I am. My friends have wallets (and some debit cards) and they all know even more life skills and they are improving in areas like money in math or stories in writing because they can relate to the pre teen picking up some stuff for dinner or something. When my mom let me go shopping with my friend and her mom I had 10 bucks and got some earrings for 5 dollars it was a good deal. But my mom said not to buy unnecessary stuff. I wouldn't know because I've never had that freedom before.

I thought well if I'm gonna be locked up in jail and have wifi I might as well talk to them online and since everyone has Facebook I might as well get that but my parents said no to that! There are a few more kids in my situation but they are all of the smart kids who parents walk them hoe from school even if they live down the block. I am aloud to walk home. My parents aren't strict because I have a laptop iPod and cell phone (with no cell service).

but they are overprotective. I am just wondering do you believe if I deserve more freedom or if the other kids are just spoiled

I am top of the class

im not kidding I'm the smartest in the class and all my friends are the popular kids and there not using me they are my legit friends

i guess

but when some kid heard me talking about this to my friend he's like my parents don't care where I am and I could tell because he isn't the brightest in class.

When I was 11 my curfew was 8:00pm and everyone is different I was alound up to 15 miles away but that's just me.