being that today is dedicated to one of two parental units.?? describe your relationship with your parents. what are your parents' personalities? how they treat you? how you get along together?
my parents fit the stereotype of bossy mom, hen-pecked dad. 99% of the time mom gets her way when decisions needs to be made. on the other hand, dad usually makes the decision if spending a large sum of money is involved (like buying a car, planning a vacation, etc.)??? although this isn't because dad's the provider - both of them have a paycheck - but he's the more money-conscious one (there's also a stinginess stereotype of people from shanghai, where dad was born)?
anyways mom has been supportive of most interests i have, though she tends to pick one to blame as the reason for problems like bad grades. at first it was watching too much television, then playing too many video games, then more recently editing amvs >_> (with my sister, it was going out with friends or talking on the phone too much) which leads me to believe it's not that she is opposed to these specific interests even though she says she is, but she is always just looking for something to blame.
overall, though, when she's not concerning herself about me or my sister, i have to admit she's level-headed and comes to good solutions. she is outgoing and driven to follow through on her decisions, which i admire.
however, she plans everything out ahead of time and gets pretty panicked when people (mainly me) don't go by the plans, which is completely the opposite of me, who goes by one day a time. i can see how planning ahead and organizing is often beneficial, but i'm too damn lazy and sometimes unmotivated i guess, and i like being flexible with my schedule.
dad, meanwhile, is.?? in some ways more dadlike - not so overbearing on my daily life, enjoys watching sports, playing bridge, drinking tea, playing the stock market. he's usually more laid back than mom, but he's got weird behaviors himself. he can be incredibly.?? stubborn.?? it's not that he's so fervently devoted to a belief, but it's like he doesn't perceive it when you refute his claim. i could spell out logically why something he said is wrong, and then have him repeat it to me and tell me that my reason is logically sound, and the next minute he'll go on about his original claim. he'll also pick up any gripe my mom has with me, taking mom's side.
sometimes he's not as reasonable as mom, he doesn't take as many risks and usually goes with what he's familiar with. he almost never enforces a decision he makes, so if i disagree with him, he'll continue to argue his case about it for about a few minutes, but then drops it.?? at least till later.
but all in all, we still usually get along. mom usually tries to be reasonable if we have disputes (which usually arises because she likes to plan and i don't), and dad (who mostly just picks up on my disputes with mom) just forgets about it after a little while.












