How to Convince Parents to Let You Get an Explicit CD

Music is one of humanity's greatest inventions and can be a fantastic way to express your personal style. Unfortunately, many popular bands today use explicit lyrics of which parents are not too fond. If there is a particular CD you are dying to buy but your parents have a policy against explicit lyrics, a few tips may help you convince them.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Choose the right moment to speak to your parents. Chatting over dinner or during family time is best, when the atmosphere is stress-free. Don't try dragging your parents into the music store and then begging or making a scene.

2. Remain calm during your discussion. If you want to convince your parents that you are mature enough to purchase a CD with explicit lyrics, you must prove to them that you can hold a calm conversation. Don't whine, beg or tell them that all of your friends parents have let them buy it. This sort of reasoning will only anger and frustrate your parents.

3. Keep your conversation clean. Your parents hesitate to allow you to purchase music with explicit lyrics because they don't want you using foul language, so don't. Tell your parents that the disc doesn't contain anything you haven't heard before, but promise them that you are mature enough to avoid using bad language. After all, it is the music that attracts you, not the bad words.

4. Borrow the disc from a friend and let your parents listen to it. If the CD is so bad that they still say no, then it probably isn't music worth having anyway. Chances are there are only a few bad words, which your parents will recognize and will eventually allow you to purchase the disc.