Did you have mean parents?

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My mom was mean. She made me go to bed, made me eat certain foods, wouldn't let us eat lot of junk food or buy us sweets and goodies, she wouldn't let us get whatever we wanted like new toys, she made rules and made us follow them and punish us every time for not following them. She even made us do our homework and nothing was ever an excuse and she always treated me normal than a disability. She wouldn't even let us have dessert before dinner or eat ice cream or other sweets when we feel like it, she say "have an apple" or not even let us eat when we have just eaten and she tell us to have left overs or something healthy like an apple. She even took away my obsessions and not let me talk about them because she got tired of hearing them. She even took my Barbies away or sent me to my room or to the stairs or took away my bike and even grounded me. She even banished me from playing with other kids (except for my brothers) or from leaving the yard.

Note: This whole thing is a joke because you know how kids think grown ups are mean when they're not, same as when kids think they have mean parents and then they realize they were actually great parents.

Well I voted before I read your post and have etter reasons to think my parents were mean, but perhaps abuse and neglect would be a better description of my growing up experience.

My mom suddenly pulled me off my epilepsy medication so she would have an extra $300/month to spend on drugs then threw me out on the streets without any assistance towards disability support or anything - told me I was lazy and to go get a job or sleep in the streets.

When I did get a job she started pressing me for any money I made - more money for drugs.

My parents are very nice, almost to a fault. They spoiled me and all of my siblings.

Yeah, they're both quite horrible.

They are not mean.

Tough to say. Definitely not my dad, he was caring to a fault, but my mom could be considered mean. It's more just that she doesnt care. Never has and never shown signs of caring about me. Just small odd things like when I turned 18 I had to start paying rent, even though I was going to college. My 2 younger sisters both were told as long as they were going to college they didnt have to pay rent. Also when I graduated I never got any kind of party, my mom threw a big party for sister, rented out a restaurant, invited the whole family. I also later found out my mom gave my sister $1,000 a year to help with college even though my sister insisted she didnt, I never got a penny.

Just last weekend my sister was going to a Bears game on sunday, on saturday my sister tried calling me to tell me a friend of hers dropped out and she had an extra ticket. Didnt know I had my phone on silent so didnt get the call. She tried a few times because it was her friends ticket and if she didnt hear from me within a few minutes it was going to someone else. My sister called my mom and told her to go get me and my mom told her sure. She never let me know and said "oh, i forgot."

Never directly mean, just holds some sort of deep seated resentment towards me.

my parents did the best they could with the burdens they had to bear. i could not do a tiny fraction of as well as they did.

my dad was mean. he was mostly just fed up with the world and the stress of raising kids that would later have to grow up and deal with people (whom he is very jaded about) seemed to get to him. my parents live in almost complete isolation, way out in the forest, and i went to a very small school for most of my life. you could say i was secluded, and much as i now long to be back living close to the earth, i think my upbringing has a lot to do with how shy i am.

when i was 4 years old my dad brought most of my mom's and my possessions out on the lawn and set them on fire. he frequently used physical punishment, threatened to call the state and have them take me away (pretty sure the state gets suspicious of parents who want to give up their kids) and was just generally loud and angry. we did a lot of work planting trees, gardening, caring for animals and building stuff, and he battled me constantly to get me to go outside and work every day. he sent me out at 15 to find a job but accepted me back home at 16 when he realized i genuinely could not find work. i had two much-older brothers, and my femininity definitely freaked him out. that said, as an adult he has been more friendly towards me and my parents are both always there to help if i really need it or ask for it.

my mom is a lot like me: sweet, quiet, anxious, eager to please, simple and overly honest.

also, i'm getting close to the point where i'll probably be moving back in with them soon.. i think this will be a good opportunity for me to practice asserting myself.

I love my parents, and they love me. Respect has always been important with my parents and me. Even as a child I got to help make decisions. My parents were never mean to me. For the kind of child I was, I couldn't have asked for better parents. When my obsession with electronic organs surfaced as a young child, they bought me a Kimball organ. They always supported my interests. And many of our vacations took me to amusement parks where I could ride roller coasters---a special intense interest of mine. Today, I am married and have two sons. We live a half mile from my parents---so we are still in close contact.

my stepdad is mean, and still is. my mom just uses him for his money so she doesnt care what he has done to any of us

my mom is a blundering idiot. and i really have nothing to do with her anymore,

i talked to my real dad a few days ago and was all exited but now the exitement has worn off and i probably wont go out for a visit now

I never thought my parents were mean, even as an irrational little kid. My sister was enough of a b*** to make up for it, though.

I dont care to associate with my parents anymore.... does that answer the question?

My mum was mean like League_Girl's.
My father is a verbally abusive jerk.

My dad did some mean things, but not to me usually. Even though he did some awful things he's not by nature a mean person.