the official parental complaint thread Options

[*not_your_average*]

Let it all hang out here. We love our parents, but they annoy the shit out of us sometimes. This thread is just for venting. NOT AN ADVICE THREAD. If you want advice, post a topic in the forum.
Discuss.

Let's start with my dad. I love him very much. However, he's way too overprotective, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. My sister is eighteen, and she's never had a boyfriend. Ever. He always yells at me for things I haven't done, and he has no respect for my privacy. For example, when I'm on the computer, he always looks at my IMs and looks at the screennames. ("Who is that person? How old are they? Do they go to school with you?") He just doesn't get it. He doesn't get that I'm not six anymore. He doesn't understand that I need my space and privacy more often. I'm growing up. I wish he'd just realize that.

The only thing that keeps me from hating him is the fact that he's doing everything he's doing out of love for me.

[Elleusion]

Holy cramm!
My Mom like always let me eat sweets, and sometimes made me eat them, and now she yells at me for being fat. It's like, she just needed a reason to take out all of her anger on me! I am also trying to loose weight, but my mom now all of a sudden is making me eat more, and trying to get me to have more snacks. She says it's to "grow healthy" but I think that I have enough fat to let me grow very healthy. I just sit there and take all of her yelling even though it's about stuff she did to me.

Also, just 'cause this topic is on parent complaints, I fell like sharing my friend's complaint, because I think it is really unfair.
So my friend has a sister, younger sister, and her mom was a younger sibling, too. Sooo... whenever her younger sister starts an argument with her, her mom always makes some excuse as to how it was her fault, and not her sisters. A list of excuses that she used that my friend told me are:
She is younger, and didn't know it was wrong, but you did.

You probably did something that made her mad.

(This is the most unfair one) She doesn't know how to take her punishment if she gets it, so she'll be in a tantrum, and besides, you fought back, so it is your fault mainly.


They are sad, and once she got grounded because her sister was messing up the yard, and it would be like, $100 to fix it all, and my friend was yelling at her to stop. And her sister just got a little talk, and she got grounded, I'm just like, glad I don't have parents like my friend, but my parents aren't perfect either.