<p>This is my new thread to complain about your parents, if you have any at all. I will go first. </p>
<p>I love my dad and at times he can be my best friend, but others, I absolutely hate him. When he was in college he started out as a physics major but switched over to philosphy. Now he blames his "crappy" life on that fact so he is trying to make me go into physics or engineering. I know it is just so he can fix his mistake through me. Despite all his attempts and his brief success, I have branched off on my own and found my own loves. In no way do I want to study physics or engineering so I am looking at LAC's and schools that I would actually love attending. My dad of course does not approve of this and anytime I mention one of these schools he screams at me that I am not taking my future seriously. Although I don't really care about his mistakes and them altering my life, I do feel bad that I am not going to make him happy. On the other hand, I really want to enjoy the rest of my life. </p>
<p>I wish he would just let me do what I want to do. He hates lawyers and politicans so much that he won't approve of me going to law school and he won't approve of me majoring in classics. He won't even approve of the school I recently started to love because it doesn't have an engineering department. </p>
<p>Yet, I love my mom. She is so nice and supportive. Anything I want to do is fine, as long as I have fun doing it (and it is not illegal). My major complaint here is that my dad is not like my mom. wow this was long.</p>
<p>hmm. my only complaint is that i have asian parents. they are generally a fun pair. i just try to avoid anything concerning college and grades as much as i can.</p>
<p>i know how u feel. my mom is supportive and doesnt go nuts that much if i get a B. my dad gets psychotic and thinks im a failure. the only thing i dont like about my mom is she wants me to go to CSUN badly.
ehh thats enuff</p>
<p>my dad's ridiculous when it comes to overreacting. im afraid to tell him about anything at all because im scared he might do something crazy over it.
like my snr yr 1st sem grades brought me down <em>one</em> rank and he has yet to make conversation with me after grades came out in dec...yea, he's ridiculous. as if being sal instead of val was an unforgivable sin. </p>
<p>my mother's a little psychotic too but that's because she's working this crazy new shift that makes me feel like i just lost my best friend 200 days <em>before</em> im supposed to leave for college. </p>
<p>idk. im really mad at both of them right now. i feel like i worked my butt off for 17 years of my life and in the end, im just butt-less instead of smothered in the praise and adoration of my parents. nothings ever enough. eugh. ASIANS!</p>
<p>my mother can really overreact.
we just got in a large argument because we're leaving for a scholarship competition tomorrow and she thought I should have an envelope for my resume. (only she hadn't mentioned until now, and she usually has them. so I have no idea why she thought I'd have one.) so she goes on about how do I expect to get a scholarship and go to college if I can't take any responsibilty... etc... (this is about not having an envelope). just a typical case of overreaction.
I used to always argue constantly with my dad, but lately it's completely switched in terms of which parent drives me crazy.</p>
<p>Parents don't push me at all. They think I'm a complete **** up and can't do anything, always assuming I have "issues". No confidence in me at all. Everytime I do something minimal, it's "oooh woooow honey i can't believe you did that!".</p>
<p>Funny Underoath. I'm Indian too. The funny thing with me is that I am like an Indian parent and my parents are like Indian kids. I'm really interested in college and am like obsessed with it. But my parents don't care that much.</p>
<p>^^hah thats funny. :P
I'm Indian too. (lets have a party)
my parents aren't THAT bad, but they can get pretty annoying sometimes
The cultural gap is quite apparent, and it is annoying for me sometimes because they just don't understand some of the ways things work over here, like in terms of school, friends, jobs, etc. Little stuff, like knowing basic things about the school system and friend-ettiquette, can get aggravating and sometimes embarrassing. </p>
<p>I'd say they've always pushed me to get good grades, especially when I was younger, and are not pleased with Bs, but are not hardcore or anything. I think they'd freak out if I got a C, though. </p>
<p>Some of the things that are the most annoying
1) The way they expect me to talk to people. America, in general, is much more laid back. My mom expects me to be very respectful to friends parents, etc. And I am, but if I went to the extent she wants me to, that would just be wierd. I can't, for example, imagine calling my chem teacher Mr. Garbarino...we all just call him "Garb." or "Garb-a-roni." Depending on our moods.
2) My parents believe that their high school education was way harder than mine. Which it was DEFINITELY not. There is so much more than regular classes these days, with APs, ECs, sports, and community service
3) They completely don't understand the college application game. AT ALL. My dad still believes that Ivy Leagues offer merit scholarships. And he doesn't seem to understand the intensity of competition to get into a selective school.<br>
4) Both my parents cannot grasp the importance of community service and extracurriculars in college acceptance. They think playing one sport and joinng a few clubs is enough to get into an extremely selective college. I wish. I always feel so awkward bringing up subjects of internships and competitions with them, because they just don't get why I would want to do stuff like that. They don't think its necessary.
5) Their work schedules make it extremely difficult for me to do ANYTHING. both are not home until 10-11 PM on weekdays. So I'm stressing over how I'm going to be able to sign up for art classes and get around. And I don't turn 16 until the fall of junior year, and stupid NY won't give me my actual license until like 6-12 months after that or something.</p>
<p>they're strict in that they won't tolerate anything lower than an A-, but other than that they're pretty chill. i can go out pretty much whenever i want, can do pretty much whatever i want, so long as i keep up my grades. i think part of the reason they're so laid back is because i've always been one of those kids who never does her homework and is a total slacker. i think they figured that i wasn't going to change any time soon and just kind of gave up on me :)</p>
<p>my brother on the other hand has always been a model student -- he does all his homework, studies for tests, etc...he's in 9th grade this year and my parents signed him up for SAT classes!</p>
<p>My parents aren't Indian... they're just *******s.</p>
<p>Mother's a doctor and she has two phds... she speaks six different languages and she drives me UP THE *<strong><em>ING WALL. Doctors are such evil parents. Parents think that if you're not an engineer or a doctor, you're pretty much useless. I think I've been pretty successful up to now, I have a real full time job while studying full time, too. I'm a journalist and I'm pretty much doing now what I'd like to do AFTER graduation... and yet I'm still a failure to them because I don't want to be a *</em></strong>ing doctor. </p>
<p>Whatever. I'm happy I know what I want to do with my life.</p>
<p>Im majoring in business. My mom won't let me MINOR in anything related to liberal arts. (My real major will be Supply Chain Management, she wants me to minor in international business or marketing...yea...)</p>
<p>I don't get it. </p>
<p>Plus, my mom got an undergrad degree in math, and my dad's an engineer, and I am pretty good at math, but only a B-worthy advanced math student. Really makes them mad (and me too! where did those genes go?!) when I get those B's in math.</p>
<p>Not as bad as most of yours, but I still like to complain.</p>
<p>Ooo my parents are Indian as well.
And guess what? I HATE MATH AND SCIENCE! I like GOVERNMENT and THEATRE...!
Sucks for me, since, you know, if you're not a doctor or engineer, you're a failure.
I absolutely cannot STAND my parents and their incredible closed-mindedness. They don't even want me to go away for college and expect me to come home every. single. weekend.
Um, heck no.
So annoying.</p>
<p>Like I said I am Indian, but not the smart kind, I'm more of the really lazy kind. Throughout highschool I brought B's and C's, and yeah my parents would get mad and I would tell them I feel really bad that I didn't get straight A's and that I would try harder. I would say that every time. And well since I never did anythingk about it I didn't end up with such a high GPA. But whatever. My dad's a doctor, but doesn't really care if I go into medicine, as long as I go into either law or business. I'm not a math genius so definitely not engineering, but I do want to become a doctor so I went in as a bio major.</p>
<p>Parents are human too
meaning, they make mistakes, you shouldn't expect them to be perfect, they get tired and crabby just like you, they are learning as they go, they deserve some respect and affection, and they can be F***ing annoying, just like us :)</p>