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All I Want for Xmas? Stop Nagging Me, Mother!
My parents are coming to visit soon. Problem is, they drive me batty with their subtle nagging and criticism of how I run my house. I don’t know if I can survive Christmas. Why don’t they let me grow up? Weary Daughter A Dear Weary: You would think that the joy of the holidays would stifle criticism,
but in fact it seems to bring out the worst in everyone. Never
fear, you are not alone. A message to your parents (and parents
everywhere): give a very special gift to your adult child this
year – a break! This one brought to you by W. Clark Ellzey
(I found it in his How to Keep Romance In Your Marriage
from 1954). 1954: Parents
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All
of us who have parents or who are parents should realize that
parenthood is a function which should have an end. If the purpose
of parenthood has not been completed it cannot end. . . . It is
not easy for parents to stop being parents. They have been doing
it for a long time by the time their child reaches adulthood,
and it is difficult to bring parenthood to an end. Habits of thinking
and feeling are well established and may have to be broken, or
may be too strong to break. They should have been modified constantly
throughout the years of childhood and youth of their children.
Even that is not possible without some struggle and pain.