parent-children relationship, is going good or bad???

Uhm.... very interesting this discussion, and pregnant with meaning too. My relationship with my parents was neither good nor bad, because I have ever had no relationship with them. It's very hard to admit, to me, but this is the truth, but now, instead, I have a son and I could start a very good relationship with him, and as he loves his grandparents (my parents), I'm recovering (I mean: re-starting a relationship with them, escuse me, but my English is bad, I hope you understand) my "no-relationship" with them. Children are magic human beings, they can do very very difficult things.

well we my mom and i have gone through stages. when i was little it was really, im the mom your the kid, but as we grow older we become more comfortable with each other and we treat each other as bestfriends. she's really cool and very understanding.

I dont have a relationship with my parents but I do have children and the relationship I have with them is fantastic...We are the best of friends yet at the same time I am the boss LOL ("you arent the boss of me!"..."like hell I'm not go to your damn room" LOL)...We have a very open and honest relationship, my kids know they can come to me with anything and they do..I treat them with respect and have nothing but unconditional love for them and they with me...I treat them as individuals and equals rather than an extention of me that should be seen and not heard (I cant stand when parents do that)....I have always included them in family decisions, I have always acknowledged and acted on the fact that no matter their age they have opinions and a voice of their own and I want to hear it....and I realize that even though they are brother and sister, they are two very different ppl and I raise them accordingly to their personalities......

Thanks for respöndin but dear all i believe is that this relationship depends solely on the training of the children! The better they are trained the better is the result!

I have a really good relationship with my mother. SHe's like my best. WE have developpe this friendship when my parent got divorce. As for my father, it's not pretty. We didn't talk to each other for maybe 4-5 years. Everytime we were talking he was talking against my mom. I decide not to call him and wait for him to call me. In 4-5 years he never called me. Also I feel like he stole my little sister from us. She doesn't want to talk to me or my mom or the rest of the family. She's saying that we never loved her. he kinda brainwash her by buying her everything she wanted. Maybe in some year it,s gonna be different. Of course I will call him if I would get pregnant or married.

well..for me the parent-daughter relationship had always been more of a duty..well i dont mean to say that we dont love each other,but on the contrary they've been more bound by rules..they do a lot for me and regarding the age factor,the only difference i seem to see here is that they started to worry more..lol.In short my parents are just parents and not 'friends' that i want them to be!..this has always been like this..and will always be!

As a parent, I have always had a good relationship with my kids. Now that they are 22 and 27 and adults, our relationship has changed. They are able to make their own decisions now and I am more like an advisor than a guardian. They ask me for advice instead of me telling them what to do. I have enjoyed each stage in my kids lives and will continue to enjoy them.

I don't talk to my dad and my mom acts like a child a lot, so I tend to only talk to her about once a week. She also talks a lot, so sometimes I can't stand to hear her for too long. I just hope my kids don't think that about me when they get older.

hey friends its the same with me. well it depends upon your parents how they bring us up. my parents have been more closer to me as i grew up. they tell me everything that i could face on this earth. they know my friends let them be my boyfriends, they got to know my choice too. i remember when i was in school few of my friends parents were so strick that they dint let them do anything. but i have been lucky that i got my parents like this. they understand me the best than anyone else. they are my everything. my relation with my parents have been great and awesome.

welll my relationship with my parents are good...no matter how angry we get but in the end we love our parents a lot......

I'm a mother of 2 kids and I'm so happy that we have such a nice relationship.. Were not just treating each other as parent and child relationship, but we're bestfriends...

My relationship with my parents are mutely. We barely talk even my mom and dad are at home almost every day. I don't know, i'm just the type of guy who tend to say nothing if not asked or something. Me with my mom is like me with someone i don't know. My mom never hear to what i said. If i said something, she don't care, she just don't want to hear my opinion and always do whatever she like but at the end, tend to causing problem for someone else. Sometimes my dad get mad if my mom do that.

You are very much correct. There are things my parents communicate to me now that I never got from them as a kid. I think why they did this is because, I was not much in control of my emotions then. There is something they said about me now and I know that if they had said it early than now, I would just take it as a sign of hatred and lack of trust in me. At different stages in our lifes we expect a different level of openness from our parents. Our discussions with them also vary enormously.

well..for me the parent-daughter erlationship had always been abstract..more like a duty. I dont mean to say thet we dont love each other,but it sometimes seem that we're more bound by rlues than love.Ofcourse they do so much for me and i too do things they want me to do mostly. But the basic attachment is missing of maybe we can say..they're not my friends..And yes,,its always been that way here! As for the age factor,the only change that i can see regarding my relation with parents is that they seem more worried..lol..

I think it depends on the parents on how their children will treat them now adays. Parents should really discipline their children to have good relationship. I think it also depend on the environment now it has a big factor on childrens behavior.

Parent children relationship goes smoothly and rarely in some family it happens a trouble but not more

The parent child relationship has been hurt because both parents need to work to meet the monetary demands of the household. We also have many single parent relationships going on and not just single women. There are alot of single men now with children. The stress of the workplace is often reflected in the home, thus young kids are experiencing alot more tension and stress. TV is also harming the parent child relationship by picturing adults as real idiots and showing thier children as far superior at decison making. These are the negatives. On the other hand, alot of my friends waited until they were older to have their kids. These people seem to have more honest and loving interactions with their kids. I feel the gender based has somewhat dimished by mom is still portrayed as the ultimate caregiver. I am not making a conclusion that this is right or wrong, this is just still the image that seems to be projected by society.

Relationship with mine parents is going quite well.Not too bad and not so good also.But i don't chat with mine father too much as i do with mine mom.I think that also as children grows they just want to live their own life as they want and they just loose a healthy relationship with their parents.

Its good and its always been good and its constant. Yes, I agree with you that age has a big factor, esspecially when you actually got married, your relationship with parents will be going bad because you have to spend time more with your spouse rather than with your parents. Problems these days are that people do not actually care for their parents after they are married .that is bad. Dont you know that parents are actually the one that makes you what it is.

I love my parents so much,and our relationship getting better than before.