User blog comment:EthanConquistador/PARENTS: SKYPE/@comment-6812733-20140719135123

Don't know if it will work for you but have you said that you're talking to your friends in Skype? I'm not telling you to lie, we are friends to each other to some extent. Atleast that's how I was able to keep my mom from flipping out when I started to use Skype, I just told her that I was talking with my friends.

Another way would be to think a great counter-argument which you could use against your parents. Of course that would require to think ahead on how to conversation might go and if you're lucky enough, the conversation will go just like you have thought and planned for, making the whole conversation to be just a puppet which strings you control. But that's hard way of doing things...