Hey,

So, for starters, this isn't an "I hate my parents thread." I mean, I don't like how they act a lot, but I'm more annoyed at a recurring pattern of behavior in my family...Basically today I have been working the entire morning in the yard while my parents and older brother, who is renting out a room in the house after college, went shopping for some supplies for a home improvement project. They're gone about 90 minutes and the entire time I have been edging and mowing the lawn. I go inside and get a drink, and they come home... I come out to help unload the car and my dad starts yelling at me for leaving the lawn mower out and being lazy and stuff... when in reality I was just leaving the mower to cool before I cleaned it...and he ended up just getting really annoyed and yelling over nothing...and eventually everyone else just got pulled into it and I left.
But it just really annoys me how everyone in my family always gets angry over something that isn't even a problem...And they always want to take it out on me.

 

 

 

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Hi there
This happens to me a lot too. It really annoys me a lot when I have been doing homework and assignments and my brother + sister are watching TV (they are in uni so they don't have homework or study to do at the moment) and when someone comes to the door or something, they expect me to drop what I am doing and open it, even though they aren't doing anything useful and are closer.

What would happen if you went back to lawnmowing when they arrived, would your dad have said that you are not helping and get angry? If so, then that is a difficult situation. Damned if you do, damned if you don't

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My parents are like that sometimes too. My mom always complains and says that I do not do anything in the house, but I do! How can I know that she needs help with something? I am not psychic, and when she asks for help I always do. I always help them with things they need, but the few hours I do not help them they get angry, complain and tells me that I should help them more. They think they do everything around here! Arg, annoying.

The thing with me is that if they complain a lot (and then I mean a lot, because they always complain.) then I will just not help them. It is okey to tell me if I am doing something wrong, but when I do everything correctly and still they yell at me; I just go somewhere else. Then they have to do everything by themselves. Even though all my other siblings is older than me, I do more then them - and my parents do not get as angry at them as they get with me. On school-days I often make dinner, I clean the house and do the laundry... then there is my homework, which I of course need to get done.

Some things are just hard to understand. Maybe I behave like that with someone else? I mean what do I know. Because my parents does not seem to understand the fact that they are like that with me.

 

 

 

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doesn't sound to me that your dad was specifically mad at ya. sounds like one of two things to me. either he had a bad time when he was out and took it out on ya which would have been wrong to do, or he knows your bad habits and assumed things that weren't true at the time. i hope if it was one or the other, it was the latter because if you don't have any bad habits, why the heck would he throw a fit right from the start.

if that's the case, he needs to keep is own self in check. and anyway, bad habits or not, kids are kids.

he doesn't hit you or nothin' does he? sounds like he has a bit of a temper and stress problem if this isn't the only time something like this has happened

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