<p>I bust my ass all the time, and my parents don't make me at all, although I wish they did. I'm the insanely driven one...I want to go to Harvard, yet when I ask them what I should do to get in, my mother always says to me, "You can start by cleaning your room." Uggg...It really sucks. They're happy I'm smart and all, but...they just don't get it at all...I sometimes wish they were hard ass, but they're not...I'm the bossy, dictatorial one in the house.:(</p>
<p>mcz...i can't imagine your case. it's so different from mine.</p>
<p>lets just say freakin parents are always gunna not be pleased.. theres always something they can B1tch about.. anyways lets just remember this.. their fitire life style is in our hands. If they were that bad and u hate them (which i dont) you can send them to a old folks home lol.. but my mom tells me I HAVE TO BUY her a house in HAWAII... guess I wont be paying back student loans anytime soon.</p>
<p>your parents are insane. then again, that's why y'all are the ones most likely to go to ivies. now, would you trade decent parents who didn't hassle you in exchange for going to a less prestigeous school?</p>
<p>My parents want me to get A's, but the learned early on (2nd Grade) that harassing me about them wasn't going to work.</p>
<p>So they came up with the most brilliant idea ever.</p>
<p>For every A I got on a test I got a dollar. If I got straight A's on my report card, I'd get 20.</p>
<p>However, when I slacked down to a B in 4th grade social studies, my mom freaked out and started quizzing me every night.</p>
<p>They stopped that $1 an A thing in 6th grade (when teachers gave more tests), but they upped the straight A reward to $40.</p>
<p>namaste, if my parents were like some of the above ones, I'd trade in an instant. "Where'd the other 5% go?" that's ridiculous. Getting to go to an Ivy to me just isn't worth getting that kind of attitude from my parents.</p>
<p>you fools are lucky. you don't really know what you have... and that is guidance.</p>
<p>Yalls' parents are crazy!</p>
<p>somebodynew I don't think the money idea is quite good. I was thought that anything you do(especially your study) you do it for yourself. there is no bigger reward that accomplishing your goals in life(with no other reward promissed but the satisfaction that you have done something by yourself). maybe I am wrong but I lived according to this principle all my life and it really made me feel happy about everything I accomplished :)</p>
<p>Me: I got 100 on a test today
Mom:Only 100?
Me: What do you mean? It's 100!
Mom: You should get over 100</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>Dad: You got an 88 in English this quarter...
Me: I got a 100 in math
Dad: Why can't you get 100 in English?
Me: The teacher
Mom: There you go making excuses, just waste your life away. You'll probably end up living with us and going to community college after you graduate since you dont want to put your intelligence to use...(and on and on)</p>
<p>Yup, my mother is a bit crazy.</p>
<p>My parents do their best to hound me about schoolwork without ever really understanding what I'm doing or how I'm doing it. My new rule is to stop answering my dad once he asks me the same question for the third time, or else I'll go crazy. I appreciate that they try to be involved, especially about college stuff, but you'd think they'd be better about retaining information if they expect me to do the same.</p>
<p>Yes. It is sad.</p>
<p>I don't think I could have handled parents like most of the ones in this topic when I was younger... That sort of stress at home just isn't healthy. My parents didn't even freak out at me when I got a 1.9 GPA in my first semester of my 3rd year in college... basically just "Try to do better next semester".</p>
<p>I kinda wish my parents would leave me alone too. I'm the oldest and so they feel that everyone else's shortcomings all come down to me. I didn't help my sister with her spelling, I should have quizzed her the night before. It doesn't matter that I had a lot of english homework, or AP homework, or any kind of homework. I worked really hard last year because they were kinda busy in their own affairs, and they didn't push me as much, and I still came out with straight A's. And even though I left 21 blank on my AP test, I still come out with a 4. I honestly thought I would fail the freakin test after I learned you generally shouldn't leave more than 10 blank if you have an idea of the answer. So I come back this summer, from an academic camp, and my parents are sooo obsessed with making sure they know exactly what I'm doing every minute of my time. I guess the 4 disappointed them. And it's the freakin summer, I don't wanna study .. and then they find me online and automatically assume i've been wasting my time and i'm addicted and i'm gonna end up a drop-out.. so they sit me down for an hour, saying how this year will "make or break me" (please .. junior year can't be that bad .. ), and how "if you don't get a good score on the sat, you're a failure" (yeah they actually said that, i swear) .. and how cramming the night before a test won't help you get good scores on the AP, and how I shouldn't be proud of the "lousy 4" I got ......... man the tension was really building up. </p>
<p>I was banned from all chatting, i was banned from this site "you don't have to spend so much time online, if you need to know something, ask us!" (and they didn't even attend college in the u.s., i doubt they know as much as the people here). And then here comes my brother's report card, a little late cuz he lost the school's calculator so they wouldn't give him the thing till he paid $95 for it .. and he got 2 Bs on the final, and the final verdict? A 10 min conversation on how he should try harder, but good effort. He's still playing computer games as I type this, he plays them till 2 am, and he doesn't get any stupid long lecture on how he's not studying enough over the summer, doesn't get any of his online privileges banned ..</p>
<p>I don't think it's all me, I'm not a super bad kid, but I think they're stressed out and maybe they felt the need to pick on their kids or something so they feel that they're doing something useful .. i dunno .. but they were both perfectionists when they were younger, so they're always pushing and pushing. I really do wanna leave far away after high school, my dream college is on a different country .. not totally cuz of the parents, I also just want to start anew with different people, different things. but yeah.. they definently drive me insane, i can sympathize with a lot of the comments. they're not always like this, they can be fun, but lately it's been really irritating.</p>
<p>^^ ...sarorah, for a minute there i thought you were describing my parents...</p>
<p>Oh yeah.</p>
<p>"You don't read the london times! You're not cultured! You'll never get accepted to American University! You're too dumb!"</p>
<p>Yeah, straight A's no one says a thing, one B and I've got my distant family on my butt about it..</p>
<p>lol it's good to know that my parents aren't the only psychos .. no wonder i click so much with this forum :)</p>
<p>typical convo</p>
<p>Me: yea o that test i got a B i did my best yea it was hard the avg was a C
Mom: u didnt study at all u just wasted ur time
Me: no i did study
Mom: u should be the best (and at this point a tangent of how she was the best in her class and got the best marks)</p>
<p>So basically the assumed assumption is that if I really were doing my best, it would mean BEING the best. And until then, I am simply not doing anything. Hmm.</p>
<p>My parents are clueless in everything I put up with in school.<br>
All they tell me is that I should make them proud.
I try explaining the college application process one time to my dad and he just glazed over.<br>
So Im pretty much alone (until I found CC) about all this college stuff. </p>
<p>I sort of envy those whose parents are actively helping you find the best college or even knows what Harvard or MIT is...</p>
<p>Dad: Yale... is that edible?</p>
<p>My dad doesn't know a thing about colleges, but he reads US News and colleagues at his work told him about American. Honestly, I wish he would just stay out of it. He came here from India so he doesn't know anything about the process anyway. My mom came from Germany, but she was here for middle school to high school, went back to Germany, and then came back for college - so she's a little more "into" it, but she applied to art schools. She's at least willing to go to colleges, go to the lectures to find out about their programs and everything. My dad complains the whole time and normally ends up in the library reading newspapers.</p>
<p>Woah, so I'm NOT the only person in the world with obsessive parents. You'd think that since I'm Mexican, they wouldn't care so much, but noooo, it's always "What do you MEAN you got a 90 on a test?! PENDEJA! ESTUPIDA! IDIOTA! IMBECIL!" I learned a long time ago that it's best just to tune them out; arguing only guarantee's a lecture of 2+ hours. I swear, I got an A- in ONE class freshman year, and they spent the entire summer saying, "Idiot's like you don't DESERVE to get into an Ivy League!" It takes all of my self-control not to say, "Yeah, Dad, like you even finished highschool!"</p>
<p>Honestly, I love my parents, and I really appreciate the fact that they push me. But really, when they push me too much, I'll only end up pushing back. I HATE piano, so I'm not going to play. I LOVE boxing, so if I want to try it, I'm going to ****<em>' try it! These past few months they've started laying off a little bit, because they FINALLY realized that I'm a senior, and I'll be moving out at the end of the year. They're trying to stack up brownie points after 16 years of torture...</em>sighs</p>
<p>Wow, that felt REALLY good to get off of my chest! It's been building up for 16 years! lol</p>