I can relate. Sometimes my parents have done the same. I think it's necessary for everyone to treat everyone else without exception the way they would like to be treated. There should be no discrimination based on age, familial relationship, or anything else. I think most parents today do it either out of a throwback to earlier days when parenting styles were more strict or because they don't generally realize how they are coming off. Relating specifically to your case, I don't think your parents should have taken the route of rationalization. It's a cop out to compare to their own parents or just say it doesn't matter. I'm just curious, do they have other stories about how hard it was growing up for them? That's how my parents like to play off their childhoods. The way they tell it, you had to walk seventy miles in the snow, uphill both ways, barefoot and running from dogs on your way to school.
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