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Advice on reaching terms with slightly strict parents.?

I’m 16 going on 17 soon and there are goals I want to achieve but my parents almost shut me down. I live in NJ and the driving age here is 17 (provisional). Almost every kid in my school drives as a Senior and I am a Junior at the moment. Im not talking about jeep cherokees and ford explorers (not hating) but these kids drive 350z’s, lexus’s, benz, BMW’s and two kids have Nissan GTRs. I do feel bad for those kids since they are baby-fed everything by their parents, but that isn’t related. I’m not aiming that high for a car, I want like a rotary engine Mazda that runs clean (about 10k). I have a job that pays a reasonable amount of money for the time being and I get A’s In school. This is where it gets complicated…
Parents:
-Say that getting into a great school is a priority and almost the only priority besides health.
-They don’t like the idea of me driving at 17, because of a ‘maturity level’ that is expected.
-They reward me with a good $1000 prize for every semester that I earn straight A’s and have great behavior (just for junior year) and this is the only money I can get towards a car besides a job and the 2000 I saved up from before. They will practically make fun of me if I do any less (got haunted with it in Sophomore year getting B’s occasional A’s)
-They are loving parents and don’t do anything corporeal or any nonsense of that sort
-Only drawback is that whenever I seem to open a conversation with them, it always turns to how important school and scholarships are. I talk about getting a car, they reply with that it doesnt matter when you get a car and they keep saying that I shouldn’t plan on having it when I want it.
-They complain when I go out with friends, saying that its a waste of time, (i go out with church friends…)
-They stress behavior and maturity level? (This is my main question to answer)

Me:
-I am fit (6.7% body fat 150 lbs all muscle and routine at the gym) – so no worries about health
-I am an extremely serious guy and people tell me it all the time and my humor is always with inside jokes so im not an inappropriate or perverted guy
-I HARDLY see friends but I plan in the future for more time out (sundays at church and the occasional youth group is my ‘hangout time’ at the moment)
-The first semester has passed and I brought A’s but one B+ so they cut my reward in half (flexible parents and they show their love for my doing well in life and for me, but they don’t plan on it again)
-I come home from school, do homework for 2 hours then go out to work to 9pm then I’m burnt and hit the bed then repeat until the weekend comes.

My goal:
Get everything by the end of the school year (birthday in June)
– Car i picked out @ $10,0000
– Some college applications to good colleges (3.7 GPA LOWEST) with my guidance counselor (guy who works at my school to help kids through school stuff and all) feeling strong about my chances of getting in
– strong stats in school
– get to hang with my friends during the summer with the help of the car I buy (parents loathe giving rides to me)

i live in a rich area and I don’t care what others think about me but I still have high standards for everything (I think it runs in my blood) and that is why I want grades, the car, and the promised education. I do NOT plan on having to drive a piece of crap machinery and I do NOT plan on getting driven around by friends or Mom and Dad.

My question to you is, how do I go about this behavior deal and should my schedule have altering?
By behavior I mean what do you think is the proper way to talk to parents, ask for things from parents, and gain large amounts of trust that can break me through to those goals. Thanks in advance.