Neither.

I was sort of both. I never did anything terribly bad but I wasn't perfectly sweet either. I think I exasperated my mother quite a bit. She said out of all 6 of us kids I was the worst as a teenager as far as emotions go. But then again by the time I got to my teen years my parents were pushing 60. I didn't get into trouble. But I sure gave my mom some gray hairs!

I was exactly what my parents did NOT want me to be: I was stubborn, disobedient, under achiever in school, rebellious, smoked, drank, and basically did not respect authority at home or other places. After high school things changed, but I put my parents through Hell up until about age 18.

I think I turned out to be a pretty good overall kid in things such as school or manners, and I'm extremely helpful around the house. But, religious-wise, it's kind of a different story because, sure I tie a turban, or I can sing some hymns and stuff, but I don't always do my prayers that I'm supposed to or I don't study our culture or try to learn more about it, which I should. In that way, there kind of diappointed in me. They don't show it, but I know they are.

I'm not quite sure what my parents WANTED me to be, but I'm surely not what they expected. I was a pretty good kid. Never got into any hardcore drugs, and I didn't disobey them to the point that they noticed. I was pretty good at hiding the lying. But now, they both love me and accept that I am gay hahah. see. it all worked out ;-) i wasn't much of a rebel but the opposite of their expectations! :)

Well, lets see. I don't go to school, I don't have any religion, And right at this moment plotting nasty ways of getting revenge on my mum for the haircut she gave me last night.(A little trim my ass! I look like Lyle Lovett!) So yes, I'd say I'm quite the little rebel.

My parents made it incredibly difficult fo me to be a rebel child, however much I tried, by virtue of being almost completely unshockable. When I dyed my hair purple my Dad loved it and my Mum told me it had "made my hair look dull." (?) When I talked about getting a tattoo my Mum said she wanted one too. My Dad's best friend was the first person I ever saw light up a joint. When I got my first boyfriend my Mum marched me down to the family planning clinic personally to get condoms and the pill. Mt Dad's politics are much more radical than mine and my Mum goes to poledancing classes (age 52 - is that not the greatest thing ever?). When I got good grades they were happy for me, when I got bad ones they weren't that fussed. It's difficult to imagine how I could do anything to rebel, except maybe join the BNP or something, which I've never had any desire to do.

I think i was better than what my parents expected.

I have remarkable parents. I cannot help but to brag because they are both honest, caring and sincere people. They treat others with respect and go out of their way to help others. Age and serious health problems have not changed or bittered any of those qualities. They are giving, loyal and loving people. They gave me the things I needed.. love, discipline (not beatings or any type of abuse), attention . ..they both worked hard professionally and I never went without.. but for quite a few of my young teenaged years (not late teens 12-16)I made their lives miserable. Not just a couple rebellious years.. I went overboard. I hurt them terribly. I created such hurt and anger that I still have moments of silent shame. It took years of working on forgiving myself and I still have moments. I was doing things I am too ashamed to type but I want people who have been there to know that they are not alone.. many of us have done bad in our lives and our mistakes DO NOT DEFINE US. To answer your question.. Praise God .. because yes, I do believe that I am the type of woman they wanted me to be. I believe the goodness in them beat the bad I tried to be. They instilled such good things into my upbringing, heart and mind that I was thankfully and blessedly able to show them that they did a good job. Many parents feel like failures when their children do such things as I did. Many are not to blame but they feel it nonetheless. I am so very blessed to have grown up and away from the path I had started to take and I am thankful each and every day for my parents. I am thankful for the woman I became.

I would like to say I was a different child

There is no doubt I was quite the little rebel. But I have come full circle and am now what my dad was then. And am happy with that. So is my mom, she just didnt like the route I took to get here.

I was a good child most of my years, though i did go through a rebel period for about a year when i was 15. I think i was trying to get some ttention from my parents as i felt unloved, and had a fairly abusive childhood due to an alcoholic mother.

Both. They didn't raise me to be a "shrinking violet" as they say. I didn't have to rebel much anyhow as we had a very open relationship. Anything that most parents would deem "rebellious" they viewed as part of growing up and didn't get to bent out of shape over such things.

Yes and no. I was basically good. I did well at school, never in any major trouble, always polite and well mannered, that sort of thing. I think the only thing that ever gave them any trouble really, was me smoking pot. I was a pot-head all through school and college. I got caught at school once and my mum and dad were mortified, I think they thought I was some sort of raging drug addict or something. When I was about 17 I got into a bad habit of just going out and not coming home for a couple of days, without a phone call or anything. I realise now, how worrying that was for them, at the time though I didn't care, I was just having a goodtime. As I got older my mum would just joke, I'd say I was just popping to the pub for a bit and she'd say well just don't forget what day you went. I'm still like that now, I can't just go out for a couple of drinks and then go home, I always end up at some random party or something until at least the next day.

I wouldn't say i'm a rebel, but as with Lady F, my mum is completly unshockable. When I come home drunk she laughs at me, when i come home then next morning covered in mud, saying I vommed, she tells me a 'funny college story'. When i peirced my own ear cartalige (one of my less sensible ideas) She smelt the sergical spirits (daughter of a vet! Thought i was being so clever not picking tcp!) All she said was 'well make sure you don't let it get infected'. Last night she noticed a fag burn on my arm (which i wasn't smoking) I explained what it was, and she said 'was it juusssttt a cigerette' and I said 'yes if it had of been something else, i WOULD have been smoking it too' and she just rolled her eyes and said 'well don't come crying to me if you're sick!' In that sense I'm not a rebel at all, even though i do bad stuff. Partly becasue she's so accepting, and partly becasue she knows EVERYTHING about me. I do however, upset her in other ways, with my constant laziness and unwillingness to help around the house. Thats why I can't wait to leave, becasue I know i treat her badly but don't seam to be able to change. My dad is the complete oposite of all this, although he has admitted to much of the same behaviour, he gets all dissapointed when he finds out I do the same. So, I either don't tell him, or, if i'm in a wind up mood, tell him aallll about it, just to annoy him.

I was rebellious.

I definitely had my moments when i was a teenager, no wonder my parents stopped at 1 child. These days my parents say they are proud of me so something good must have happened.

I don't think my parents ever told me what they wanted me to be. They seemed to be happy as I grew into my own epression of manhood. As a child, I rebelled as any child does; I also learned to comply with the boundaries they set for me. They were not unreasonable and my folks never tried to control my thinking.

I was a good little boy as a child. I rebelled a bit 20ish when I joined the one true faith. By that time though my parents respected my decisions.

yes i was definitly a rebel, i regret it now though but theres nothing i can do about it. i didnt do drugs but i used to drink and stay out late and not go home and have my parents worried like mad. i used to think why you worried im only with my mates but now im older i totaly understand what i must have put them through

Hmm i think im rebellious I play guitar in a rock band, I drink and regularily take psychedelic drugs.

It's more like my parents aren't what I want them to be. As for me, I'm an OK kid, besides that whole crazy thing, but there crazy too, so it evens out pretty well.

Rebel to the core.

I had my moments of "testing the waters." Around 14, 15 and 16 I was very rebellious. I'd get written up in school, I had too many days in ISS (in school suspension), OSS (sure you can guess what that one is), I got in a couple fights- with males, not females, surprisingly, lol- and had a tit-for-tat with plenty of my teachers, and I guess it didn't help that I was smoking weed daily. But, like alot of the parents I just read about, mine were very open. I could talk to them about anything and have them understand my point of view on the complete situation. That's why I was allowed to smoke at home, and tell my parents about all of my write-ups in vivid detail, lol. Around 17, when I was homeschooled, I started to turn around and shape up my attitude. These days my parents are pretty proud of me, though I can safely say I never believed that they weren't proud of me, even with all of my flaws. I love those people :) ...

Def what my parents wanted me to be cause I was too shy to be rebellious, but now I'm turning around cause I'm a senior in HS and I got a rebel of a gf lol

I was/am not a rebel child. I was/am an over-achiever in school and I have never drank, smoked, or done drugs, but somehow my parents always find something to complain about no matter what I do. So I guess the answer to your question would be neither.

well probobly rebel. my parent seem to think i am a angel at school!! LOL! i can cause havoc at home and a the age of 11-12 had anger managemant classes. am and can be very violent i.e. there is still a dent in the door where i punched it. but i still turn out good marks and am top in nearly everything so does me. At school i can be a pain!! have been told off numerous times for being late/skiping/not paying attention/listening to music/talking/finding proxy servers in lessons or assembaly. Never taken drugs! h8 to lose control. cant smoke it would kill me quickly as i have asthma! dont want to die young!!