Mother attempting to keep me from my passion
Hello all!
My name is Chase and I am here because I do not know how to deal with a problem that I have with my mother. All of my life, I have been searching for something that I can make a living off. Everyone around me, including my mother, have always told me to follow my dream, or to find a job that I love so I never have to work a day in my life. I am sure this is the same schpeil everyone has heard at one time or another in their lives. "Follow your dreams and never lose sight of them."
Well, recently, I believe I have found my niche, my place where I belong. I recently have become a small business owner at 17 and operate two YouTube channels: one for my company and a personal channel. I have uploaded a combined total of twenty or so videos in the past four or five months. Previously, my mother has been okay with me uploading videos. She was a bit apprehensive about me putting my face on the Internet but by then it was already out there.
So time passed and nothing changed; I was uploading videos and following my dream. Until three weeks ago in the Houston Airport. My family was taking a trip to Orlando to visit Universal Studios. Before we left, I informed my mother that I would be videoing our trip for my channel. Out of respect for her and her wish that my family not be seen on the Internet, I promised her that I would not include them in it. She gave me the okay and I gathered my gear for the trip.
Fast forward to the airport. She pulled me aside and told me that she was not okay with me videoing our trip on the grounds that I would be spending too much time videoing and not enough time with the family. I consented to not video during the trip. But that was not all apparently. She went on to say that she was no longer okay with me uploading videos to YouTube as my little brother was asking her to do the same for minecraft videos and she was beginning to rethink how she felt with me being on the Internet. Now, this is where I began to argue with her.
I pointed out that my face was already out there an there would be no point in not allowing me to post videos on the grounds of that argument. I also pointed out that my little brother had been asking to upload videos for almost a year, long before I started my channels or my company. In a very heated argument, I agreed to not upload another video until the end of school. This was so I could focus more on my grades, which were at the time not very good. We came to an agreement and the rest of the trip was wonderful.
Fast forward again to this evening. For the past week or so, I have been telling my mother about a video project I have planned in two weeks on bullying. She had no problem with it whenever I mentioned it to her any of these times. Until this evening, that is...
When I mentioned uploading another vlog (video blog) within the next few days, she began to yell at me, saying that she already told me I was not allowed to upload any videos anymore. In realty, our agreement was that I would not upload videos during the school year. Summer was fair game. Now, she is attempting to ban me from YouTube altogether.
Being a YouTuber and videographer has become my love and my passion. I have followed years and years of advice from numerous people, including my mother, to follow my dreams and find my passion. Now that I have, she is attempting to take it away from me.
My question is, how do I go about arguing this, should I do it anyway if she does decide to ban me from it, and why is she trying to keep me from doing why I love which is something she has encouraged me to do for years and years??
All answers and comments are welcome. Please help me.
Thank you
-Chase