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Monologues for teens | "12 Years Wise" by Gabriel Davis

12 Years Wise
A female monologue for teens
by Gabriel Davis
Published in Best Contemporary Monologues For Kids Ages 7-15 Applause Acting Series
Performed in Broadway Artists Alliance Summer Session 2015

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I'm twelve.  Yes, I'm only twelve.   I don't know everything you do. But I need you to listen to me.  Because I think I know something here..

I know when you yell at mom its usually because you think you 're right and she's wrong.  But if mom's crying because you're yelling about how wrong she is then I think you're even more wrong .. 

I'm only twelve. As you like to remind me.  You know more stuff.  But I know there must be a better way to make your point than to stick mom with it until she cries.  Maybe you could soften your point..  Like I did with Jackie ..

I didn't tell you or mom this but...  Jackie took my favorite dress without asking.  The one I was going to wear my first day back at school.  And went to a sleepover and got grape soda all over it.  It's ruined.  I wanted to yell at her.   To tell her right in front of you and mom how insensitive she was and how she's a bad sister because she didn't think of me at all and how she is totally selfish...

But the last time I did that she didn't talk to me for a week and ...No instead I downloaded that funny movie about the school dance she was dying to see and we watched it and laughed and when we were both really happy together them I told her quietly, privately in her room about how excited I'd been to wear the dress my first day back at school and what I loved about it.  She said I was just telling her to make her feel bad.

I said ... I said I was just telling her because I wanted her to know how I felt.  Because I wasn't sure she knew.  And she said... she kinda knew but not how MUCH it mattered to me.  So when she finally apologized, I knew it was real not because you or mom made her.  But because she loves me.  

So I'm saying...maybe instead of yelling at mom when she gets home..Maybe you should take her on a really nice date instead.

I'm just saying... Do you want Mom to be nicer to you ... Or do you just want to be "right"?   It's up to you, dad.