What do your parents disapprove of about you?

[LynetteScavo]

My mother disapproves of me drinking alcohol.

She disapproves of me doing the RICA course. (even thought she doesn't know I'm doing it and thinks it's just me chatting with the priest in the presbytery -she is very anti Catholic, but would never admit it)

She disapproves of me staying up late (after 10 pm, even though she is seldom in bed before midnight, if not 1am)

She disapproves (nay, is shocked, so she tells me) of me giving my DC drinks whenever they say they are thirsty. Because in her day, you only got something if you were competing in sport, and that was only a thin piece of orange to suck on.

Fecking everything, it seems.

Mostly just the way we spend our money. (they think home renovations are a waste of money)
Some of my stricter parenting

nothing

I am perfect

My mother doesn't disapprove of anything except the fact that I am as fat as she is. That path, she says, leads to diabetes.

Oh and everything I cook, but I don't care because my cooking is lovely. Who the hell cooks spaghetti bolognese in the frickin microwave???

They think I'm too strict with my children and that this is 'unfair' because they weren't strict with me. I remember what I got up to...

Apart from that, I think they were very disapproving / disappointed when I racked up debt. But they were extremely supportive in helping me to pay it off (didn't pay it for me but gave me somewhere to live and sort it out). Generally, they are brill.

Lynette - wtf with the drink thing? That's really odd!

Everything.

My mother disapproves of the fact that I no longer subscribe to Catholicism, and that I didn't marry a nice Polish boy. (DH and I have been married 17 years). Oh, also that we have not had our DC christened. And also that we have have not worked on our garden amd it is basically just grass.

That I mix my whites and coloureds - and probably other things I don't know about...

My honesty.

My mother definately dissaproves of any of my good points and my right to be happy. She is miserable, so I should be too.

My Dad's not keen on the goth look but I can let that go....

nothing really, except maybe my choice of husband, but they are far too loyal to say it out loud.

exhausted - I think my parents think the same about my DH, but never, ever say it . .

oh yeah, mine are definitely right, I wish they had said something!
sorry bout yours

My mother disapproves of my hair.

omg where do i bgin

housework

working

to strict

drink too much

dont visit enough only 2/3 times wk)

dont listen to her

how long do you have lol

That I am going to wear jeans and a t-shirt to my 40th party...apparently I should wear an evening dress. I can't mosh in an evening dress

My taste in music (see above).

That I will stick up for myself and offer my honest opinion...I am female and therefore should defer to dh's point of view over mine.

Shame innit?

the lot
disowned them and

Everything. If I was like my perfect sister, all would be well. Unfortunately for them, I live in Reality Land

who cares really

my father - everything
my mother - that I colour my hair

Everything! That I work, that I don't "look after" my DH in a good wifey 1950s way, that my kids are not perfect (although I disagree!) that I don't make everything from scratch, basically that I am not her. She didn't want children, she wanted clones.