Is it Hip to Love your Parents ?

I was wondering if todays youth are able to love, accept, and understand their parents more than their " straight or square" acquaintances do ? ( I've heard many young people say " I hate my parents "). Do hippiedom ideologies and lifestyle (love, peace, freedom, etc), make it easier to understand, accept and love your parents?

 

ide say my beliefs about universal love and peace, acceptance for all people and things...does not in fact extend to my immediate family...i wish it did, but i have trouble leaving my head out of family situations

 

I definetly love my parents. There is nothing that could change that. They are really awesome, and perfect in my opinion. They let me do pretty much what I want, but they still have standards to keep me safe and watch out for me.

 

I do not particulary like my parents, but I do understand why they are the way they are based on thier beliefs and circumstance in life. I love them, yes... but "like"... hmm...

 

I love my parents, but sometimes they dont understand me.

 

I love 'em, but probably wouldnt be close buds with them if I hadn't been conceived by 'em! hahah

 

killll yoh parentz, an be your own person.

 

it's a love and hate relationship... love yes, i mean they're my parents, but they have alot of issues...i can admire alot of the things my parents have achieved and i can respect them and understand why they do some of the things they do, but there are always times where i'd rather be on the other side of the world than in the same room with them...

 

I love my parents, and I'm one hell of a Mommy's Boy at heart. Me and my father are too similiar: stubborn.

 

dude....of course its hip to love your parents. its hip to love anything ahahah

nah but for real, my parents are more fucked up than i am & i still love them. if i can love my parents anyone can.

 

I love them. We are very differnt people but I love them anyway.

 

i love my parents... they think im crazy cause im always stoned around them

 

sure i love my parents,cuz well they're my parents lol...but they dont
understand me at all so im trying to understand them and try not to argue with them
its not that easy but i know they only want the best for me

 

Nah . I rather not ...

 

I'd say its different for everyone.

Once you get that mutual respect than you have to try and make things work.

I mean, they brought you into the world, I think its good to show them some love.

 

I'm 16 and i absolutly love my parents to death. Even though were really different, we also have alot of things in common. Hence they are my parents lol. They are really good, loving, caring, and great parents. They raised me well, taught me great things, did everything for me! they even schooled me!! i think it's wrong to hate ur parents, unless they are like REALLY bad ppl or somethin. My parents raised me to be open minded, compassionate, and just everything positive. I'm sooo freakin lucky to have them, even though they may have some lame rules hehe.

 

my dad passed away, but we were best friends, and would watch old black and white movies and talk about politics and make up our own languages out of inside jokes and bizarre wordplay... i always catch myself thinking "god, i am exactly like my dad"...

i love my mom. i'm a bitch to her sometimes when she gets drunk and embarassing because it's not her and who she really is is such a great person, and i think that is the one thing i would change about myself if i could. just to tolerate it. i was raised more by my dad in some ways, so i have his personality of being a gemini and always wanting to be corrected if i'm wrong, always wanting to know as much about something as possible just because i'm interested. and she's not like that at all, she just wants to go along and if she's wrong she's wrong, so we clash, but i love her so much. she made half of me. or maybe 1/3 of me... i want to take credit for some of it.


i really don't think it's cool to bash your parents the way a looooot of kids do. i actually lose a lot of respect for people who do, unless their parents truly are abusive fucks. but if they are the kid usually tries not to talk about it at all. i'm so glad i'm not like that anymore...

 

Thats so sad 2 hear that ur dad has passed away

 

thanks... it was a couple years ago. the universe lost an incredibly amazing human being, you don't even know. but his name is on mars...

 

When I look back to my childhood, (way back-I am 54), I now remember how actually liberal and "hip" my parents really were.( In a time when it wasn't as prevalent ). I didn't realize it then, but now as I get older, I can see how alternative they really were, and I attribute my "hippie" inclinations to their methods of childraising. Sure, they made mistakes, and didn't always understand everything that was happening with me, but I remember being able to talk with them more openly than some of my friends were able to do with their parents, and they didn't freak out about some of the things other parents did. (Marijuana, sex, curfews etc. ) They were pretty loose and "hip". Did I take after them, and become a "hippie" ???????? Were they really quite "hip", even though they seemed so "square" ????


So, I was thinking that maybe we "hippies" are able to understand and love our parents better, and maybe we are "hippies" today because of their influences. I know our friends seem to be a bigger influence, but when you look at your foundational years with your parents, I will bet they had a large part in influencing your present day attitudes and lifestyle choices.