Originally Posted By goodgirl Category: Family Question: What is the most common issue you and your parents have argued about?
Originally Posted By wahooskipper As an adult? Well, we don't really argue now. As a child? Probably my studies. And...it turns out...they were right.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad My then, girlfriend, now wife. Muuhahhaha... boy oh boy were my parents WRONG! Anyhoo...it always seems funny that the world's least desirable son-in-law or daughter-in-law can become the parent of the world's MOST desirable greandchildren!!! How is that possible???
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Doing my chores around the house. It's been a long, long time since we've argued.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut than: EVERYTHING Now: Aftermarket vs OEM (mainly my dad and me). My mom and I usually do not argue.
Originally Posted By LVBelle Then: Keeping my room clean (I say they were darn lucky if that was our biggest issue! Now: We jokingly argue about me moving back to Phoenix. I know they really want me to but they also know how happy I am here!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 As a teen - school. As an adult - I can't remember any arguments as adults.
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess I'm 38, and my parents have been gone awhile now (my mom, 5 years, and my dad, 15) but we didn't argue when I was a kid or even a teenager--only once I had children of my own. Actually, my dad was gone by then, but my mom criticized my parenting a lot, and it really hurt. (She & I had always been very close, and I valued her opinion.) I don't care how old you are -- if there's one thing you always want, it's to be accepted and understood by your parents.
Originally Posted By Ursula I disagreed with my dad a lot on things related to fairness, prejudice, religion, my schooling, gender-relations (NEVER tell your daughter that if she were a boy, she'd have a Porche) etc. I still do, well, just not the schooling part because I finished. I plan on getting back at him by someday adopting a third-world female baby and putting her through Harvard. With my mom, she would never argue, except that every once in a while she'd get really mad and call me and 999Haunts ungrateful children whenever we'd poke fun at her at dad's prodding. And she was right. We never should have done that and I regret it every day. I hope she knows that now.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Then: Cleaning my room. The mess drove them crazy, I didn't think it was any big deal. It was my room, why shouldn't I get to keep it the way I liked it? Now: My parents mocking me and high-fiving each other when they hear me yell at my kids to clean their rooms and the kids respond with "Why does the mess drive you so crazy? I don't think it's any big deal. It's my room, why can't I keep it the way I like it?"
Originally Posted By mele Pretty much all of the fights I've had with my mom boil down to the fact that I am bad, I was born bad, and that I will always be bad. Life is fun when you grow up with a parent with a massive narcissistic personality disorder who also projects all of her personality flaws onto her children. Good times.
Originally Posted By DlandJB It was probably chores - especially keeping my room clean. But my mom bestowed the ultimate parental curse on me..."Wait until you have children of your own!" and now, of course, I have a DD who needs a backhoe to get from her door to her bedroom closet, there is so much stuff in her room. And I am constantly harping on her to clean it up. I, of course, have already bestowed the curse on her. Ah karma -- what a wonderful gift.
Originally Posted By Labuda As a kid: fighting with my brothers a lto (we fought like cats & dogs, especially Paul, who's only 19 months older than me), and cleaning my room. As an aduklt: I honestly can't think of ANY arguments mom & I have had since I was, gosh, maybe 19 or so.
Originally Posted By goodgirl As a kid: I can't think of anything! As a teen: Makeup As an adult: Nothing really, except for politics from time to time.
Originally Posted By mele <<But my mom bestowed the ultimate parental curse on me..."Wait until you have children of your own!">> LOL, that's a classic! And always true.
Originally Posted By ReadingMom My sister and I argued with my mom about chores. My brother hardly had to to anything. We had to do EVEYRTHING! It made us sooooo mad. Now we don't argue. I just accept the fact that she will never change and I just go forward.
Originally Posted By avromark I'll just say my family was not the Brady Bunch but we aren't the Bundy's either.
Originally Posted By bloona I have never really argued with my mum, she has always treated me more like a friend than a daughter. Never told me what to do, so thank goodness Im good anyway!...lol. She never did things I wish she had done now though, like she never was strict about me cleaning my teeth, thus I have a mouth FULL of fillings! (is that what you call them there?) Never made me wash my hair etc....bizarre really. I can confirm though that after a while hair does not get greasier and actually looks ok ( must stink though) annoyed about that now. the only thing we argued about was me worrying about her smoking.
