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I think lurkette hit it right on the nose. As a kid/teenager, you cannot control the rules set forth by authority figures, but you can control how you experience life within the boundaries of those rules or how you want to deal with the negative aspects of your life that comes in breaking those rules. The more positively you experience life within the confines of the rules, the possibility comes of more freedoms being open to you by those authority figures because they'll start to see you as respectful and trustworthy and thus they'll tend to give you more freedom in some areas where freedom doesn't exist. This is how I survived high school. Very little freedom to start but by living within the rules and choosing to enjoy life anyways (also expressing myself a lot within those boundaries) I found I had a ton of freedom given to me by the time I was a senior. For instance, I went from a 10pm curfew in 10th grade to midnight the following year to just needing to at least call in and make it to school the next day by my senior year. I never abused the freedoms I was given and that opened up even MORE freedoms.
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