Parents, Parents, Parents!

It’s really hard to make a stand when your opposition is as forceful as all the arguments you could make. What’s even harder is when the pressure to conform comes from no less than one’s parents.

Being an adult, the dynamics are quite different to when you were a child.

As little children we know that deep inside is this knowledge that mom and dad are right about nearly everything and possess at least some experience of a given subject matter in greater proportions that we do. We may know that they are right but we also have our own hazy view of things which we don’t have as much confidence as the enthusiasm to see it through.

Then we grow older and stronger in our opinions, likes and wants. The conflicting views are debated on with as much personal belief as with self confidence and an air of indifference to the consequences of disobedience. Hence the title “rebellious teenager”.

But what do we do when we as adults, disagree with our older parents? How do we stand our ground? Do we? Do we grudgingly compromise for the sake of peace? How do we deal with our parents who have no right or say in the matter but at the same time, need to be handled tactfully and wisely? After all, we being adults ourselves, we cannot resort to the arguing operandi that we did during our growing up years but it’s so darn difficult when we also realize that we aren’t little children anymore isn’t it?

What on EARTH should we do in situations like these? :)