At what age did you stop being embarrassed about your parents?

blackcard · 12-09-2015 02:08PM #1

In my teens, I thought my dad was a dinosaur and totally uncool. The number of times I felt mortified. Didn't think he should be allowed out in public with his dress sense, his taste in music and his general medieval views on life. Then, at around 20, all of a sudden he became my hero as he knew much before I became embarrassed at him again in my twenties. Finally around 30, I realised he was very similar to me in a lot of ways and we became friends. I was never embarrassed at my mother. What age did you stop being embarrassed about your parents?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-09-2015 02:25PM

I'd say around 21. I was always embarrassed of my mother, not so much my father.

Notavirus.exe · 12-09-2015 02:41PM

23. I finally got the courage to sleep on my own.

12-09-2015 02:43PM

When I was about 15, and realised other people thought they were cool and copped on that it wasn't them...it was me! I'm proud as punch of both of them now.

masti123 · 12-09-2015 02:43PM

Weirdly, I never was

Sunnyisland · 12-09-2015 02:45PM

I was never embarrassed about my parents.

ToddyDoody · 12-09-2015 02:46PM

The older they get, the more laughs they give, and the more clear it is that i will indeed be going to hell.

py2006 · 12-09-2015 02:47PM

I'm embarrassed for you parents...

chrissb8 · 12-09-2015 03:17PM

Around my early twenties. Never realised my Dad knew so much and my Mom has always been a chill person. Just me trying to be cool was the problem.

The_Valeyard · 12-09-2015 03:18PM

I will let you know,

Great craic, love them and all,

But jaysus I've no idea what the auld lad could come out with!!

wakka12 · 12-09-2015 03:29PM

Im nearly 20. Don't find either of them particularly embarassing, never did either, they can be irritating..but when Ive friends around they don't try to act cool theyre just down to earth and friendly

Liam McPoyle · 12-09-2015 03:40PM

I was never embarrassed by them really. Dad used to act the bollox when I had school friends over by trying to be funny but thats about it. The fact that all of my friends that know them hold them in high esteem makes me feel pretty lucky tbh.

r93kaey5p2izun · 12-09-2015 03:41PM

I was embarrassed by the fact they're older when I was in primary school but I got over that. I was never otherwise embarrassed by my mother but I think I'll always be embarrassed by my father. He's openly racist, sexist, homophobic, lazy and an extreme hoarder.

brummytom · 12-09-2015 03:50PM

Probably around 18ish. Everyone had always thought they were great but I could never see it. When I became 'an adult', they stopped the big parent act and just acted like normal people. They're pretty sound, really.

cassid · 12-09-2015 06:33PM

My kids are still young all under 10 and tell me every day I am the best mammy and beautiful, naturally I believe them.

My dad had long hair growing up and still does, always the life and soul of the party, especially when the parents split up ! people used to call him the hippie but it never bothered me.

12-09-2015 06:55PM

Candie wrote: »

When I was about 15, and realised other people thought they were cool and copped on that it wasn't them...it was me! I'm proud as punch of both of them now.

Same here. Around 15/16. My mother is sound and my Dad was sound to my friends. The turn out at his funeral showed that. Some of them were as devastated as I was. Same with myself at my friends fathers funeral shortly afterwards. I felt like we lost one of the lads rather than a friends parent. I get on surprisingly well with most of my friends parents since I was a kid. Could sit down and chat away with them for hours.

ToddyDoody · 12-09-2015 07:08PM

py2006 wrote: »

I'm embarrassed for you parents...

Isn't that one of the worst things you can say to anyone? (I struggle to think of a worse insult)

adocholiday · 12-09-2015 07:25PM

I've never been embarrassed by my parents, in fact they are the 2 people I admire and respect the most in this world. After having me when they were both about 20 and having little to nothing in the way of money, they were wrote off by people and my prospects were deemed to be grim. They worked their hearts out and sacrificed so much of their own lives to provide a loving home for us and give us a great education; giving us a great appreciation for the things we had and instilling a great sense of pride in ourselves. 2 great people and it's a pity that many young people don't appreciate how great their parents are

12-09-2015 07:28PM

adocholiday wrote: »

I've never been embarrassed by my parents, in fact they are the 2 people I admire and respect the most in this world. After having me when they were both about 20 and having little to nothing in the way of money, they were wrote off by people and my prospects were deemed to be grim. They worked their hearts out and sacrificed so much of their own lives to provide a loving home for us and give us a great education; giving us a great appreciation for the things we had and instilling a great sense of pride in ourselves. 2 great people and it's a pity that many young people don't appreciate how great their parents are

Your parents sound wonderful.

I don't think it's that people don't appreciate their parents, it's that you're so secure as a child that you don't think about some things, and it's only when you grow up that you can see the big picture of exactly how much they've done for you. It's not just simple callousness.

kingchess · 12-09-2015 07:55PM

Was it Mark Twain who said that when he was 14 he was embarrassed by the ignorance of his father but when he was 21 he was amazed by how much his father had learned in 7 years,

Massimo Cassagrande · 12-09-2015 08:02PM

My two lads work for me and I think they're generally fairly unembarrassed.

My own old lad embarrassed me no end as a teenager and into mu early twenties, he was "a character" - it's only now(he passed away a few years back) that at family get togethers, one of the recurring conversations is "jasus, remember when he...." and instead of being embarrassed, we're all kinda sad that a character is gone. At the time, not so much..he had a habit of having loud public rows with politicians, Gards, fistfights, standing in Mass singing like a foghorn in a tune no hymn-writer ever imagined or wrote and wandering around in deeply odd clothes. We all used to cringe when he'd corner some poor sod and start regaling them with stories of the war...mainly as he was on "the wrong side" in it and felt obliged to inform the world as to why they were wrong about adolf...that usually went down well..

blackcard · 12-09-2015 09:53PM

py2006 wrote: »

I'm embarrassed for you parents...

I wish I had the wisdom then that I have now. Back then, I cared more about the opinions of people I knew for 5 minutes than I did for those who had been there all my life

Letree · 12-09-2015 10:52PM

Just tell their friends when they are round the house that they are hip to the groove. There is no way your kids will be embarrassed about that.

12-09-2015 11:25PM

Letree wrote: »

Just tell their friends when they are round the house that they are hip to the groove. There is no way your kids will be embarrassed about that.

Jeez, the flashbacks!

My dad used to say 'I'm hip to the groove, I'm a happening dude' whenever I'd tell him not to embarrass me by singing in the car.

I lived in terror of him saying it in front of my friends.

TheBiz · 13-09-2015 12:43AM

I was more so annoyed with them at certain points in life mainly because I wanted to do something and they were against it.
But never truly embarrassed.

I did get closer to them over time thought

At 13 I tore my cruciate and was travelling to and from Dublin for about 6 out the 8 months on crutches and my dad brought me up.
We spent the entirety of every journey talking about everything under the sun! From political debates to **** he got up to as a teenager.
I'm 18 now and I couldn't be happier to call him my dad.

At what age did you stop being embarrassed about your parents?

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