Parents are wierd.
They get everything they want in life, and seem to take great pleasure in making our lives miserable. I can remember quite well that that was what I thought when I was growing up. As a parent, I have established a number of phrases that I use with great regularity in the process of bringing up my two boys. To be fair, it is often the fact that they are not the only ones needing to djust their attitudes - I, myself need to work on the way I allow my feelings to come out and see the light of day from time to time. He obviously didn't have my Chemistry teacher, or have to deal with the rules and impositions that my parents made on me as a kid.