my family really needs to calm the forget down

[Freek]

I'm staying home alone today, and when I got up this morning around a half hour ago, I had over 30 missed calls and texts from five different family members. I called my mom and asked "why are you all calling me". apparently, they were all having a panic attack because before my mom left the house, she told me to turn up my phone. I was not awake, nor did I respond to her telling me that, because I was sleeping. So yeah, because I didn't answer my phone after like an hour of being alone, my family goes apestuff and sends family members over to the house to check on me. Is it really that loving inhumane to wake up at 11:30 in the morning?? I tell my mom to calm down, and she tells me, "well, when you dont answer my calls, horrible things go through my mind". Like what exactly? Me falling off my bed and breaking my neck?? A burglar breaking into a house at 11 in the loving morning? So yeah I get this lecture on why I need to listen to people even though I'm loving asleep. This isn't the first time either.
When I was around I'd say 11 or 12, I was left home alone for about 3 hours. Everything was going fine until about 2 and a half hours in. My aunt drives here and picks me up from the house because I'm "unsafe". I ask if I should leave a note for my mom and she says no. I ride with her to her house, and when my mom gets home, she has a panic attack and almost a heart attack. She finally calls me like 10 minutes later crying, asking where I was. She drives to my aunts house and loving YELLS AT ME. "YOU NEED TO CALL ME BEFORE LEAVING ANYWHERE!!" My aunt also loving yells at me about this even though it was her fault, I didn't leave the house on purpose. So, they give me this long lecture for nothing, and won't let me stay home for a year so I would "learn my lesson". forget

also I know I just made a rant topic like yesterday, but this one is a different subject so whatever

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[LeetZero]

Why didn't you just tell your mother about what your aunt did?

[Heitmeyer²]

your family sounds like a bunch of overreacting extreme control freaks
eugh

[Freek]

Why didn't you just tell your mother about what your aunt did?

I did and she said I should have called her about it. I tried but she didn't answer.

[Swat 3]

idk i think she sounds like a concerned mother

[Maxwell.]

idk i think she sounds like a concerned mother

she sounds too concerned

[Car Selling Pyro]

i can understand a family getting overprotective, but a whole year is just forgeted up

[Siberian Husky]

When I was 8 I was left home alone for about 52ish minutes. Though I was just a stupid lil kid glued to my N64 ,-,

[AutoBahn]

your family sounds like a bunch of overreacting extreme control freaks
eugh

this

[TheABELBOTO]

When you get stressed out, things such as the safety of your property/loved ones seem to have less priority and whenever one makes the realization, the result tends to be an exponential increase of worry for said thing.


AFAIK your aunt/mother may simply be dealing with conflicting feelings. IMHO.

[Hansome duded]

She finally calls me like 10 minutes later crying, asking where I was. She drives to my aunts house and loving YELLS AT ME. "YOU NEED TO CALL ME BEFORE LEAVING ANYWHERE!!" My aunt also loving yells at me about this even though it was her fault, I didn't leave the house on purpose. So, they give me this long lecture for nothing, and won't let me stay home for a year so I would "learn my lesson". forget

did you try to combat them

[Bisjac]

just turn it off. because the first thing they are going to want to do is remind you that you are fortunate to have the phone, but you have to pretend to not give a forget.

because 2014, and people "need" phones. and that is amusing.

[Pecon]

just turn it off. because the first thing they are going to want to do is remind you that you are fortunate to have the phone, but you have to pretend to not give a forget.

because 2014, and people "need" phones. and that is amusing.

I would sometimes leave my cell phone behind on purpose just so I wouldn't be bothered by it. At that point in time, the only reason I had it was for the sole purpose of my parents 'checking up on me'. I never used it for any personal reasons and since it had no data services it never really worked as any convenience to me.

I don't know how much the phone really means to Freek here, but he might get somewhere if he does like you suggested and at least pretends he doesn't care about using it.

[Alyx Vance]

Thats pretty ridiculous, now I only skimmed it but I think its safe to say this:
Your parents should have made sure that you responded, if you were asleep and they knew it than they are at fault for not waking and telling you.

[sir dooble]

Whenever my parents have left me or my brothers at home, and they plan to call to check up on us, they tend to give us a time they expect they'll call by.
That way we can get up to expect the call.

Also, we have a landline phone, and they ring that instead, and it makes a loud noise in multiple places in the house, so we know when it's ringing.