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Everyone’s parents know how to get under their skin. They don’t mean to, but boy are they good at it. No matter how confident, cool, powerful, and collected you feel, with just a few words your parents can have you whining and squirming like a little kid throwing a tantrum again. They can undercut all of the BS you’ve built over the years and walls you’ve put up. They still see you as the little kid who ate crayons and potty trained a bit longer than the other children, and so they can make you feel like that kid, too. Hey, our parents don’t mean any harm. They just spent 18 years (or perhaps more, seeing as many millennials are moving back home after college) feeding us, rearing us, keeping us alive, and tending to our emotional wellbeing. Are they just supposed to stop because we claim we’re adults? Go easy on them. Here are ways we could all be kinder to our parents.
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Let their little comments slide
Their comments about your clothes, your hair, your apartment décor, your car…just let them slide. You don’t need to fight back every time they tell you that you should keep your car cleaner. It’s just a kneejerk reaction for them to comment on every little thing because you’re still their baby. The interaction will go much smoother if you just shrug those comments off and change the subject.
