Making you take dancing lessons with Paula which was an embarrassing thing to do.
Telling you I did not want to listen to hard rock and similar music in our house.
Walking heavily on the floor when visiting your apartment.
Making you go to the Unitarian and Ethical Culture Sunday schools.
Telling you what to do when speaking to you.
Not really listening to what you had to say when you were talking.
Expressing my opinions that were different from yours in a tone of voice that put you down.
Arranging too many parent teacher conferences most of which were unnecessary (e.g. in the fourth grade for biting your nails).
Forcing you to do things that you didn't want to do because I felt they were best.
Using an authoritarian tone of voice when speaking to you.
Saying directly or indirectly that you had to do things my way or suffer the consequences.
Disapproving of what you watched on TV even when it was just a matter of taste.
Thinking that my values were the ones that were best for you.
Jumping too quickly to follow up on your interests such as writing when you wanted to go at your own pace.
Not having or seeking an area of common interest that we could share such as athletics or the computer.
Expressing my dislike for using cuss words and rough language in general conversation.
Forcing you to be with and take part in groups when you wanted to be alone.
Making you stop when I didn't like what you were doing when you were playing with others.
Enforcing a double standard by saying one thing and then going back on it (e.g. asking you to come home at 1:00 AM after insisting that you go to the Halloween party).
Forcing you to do more school work when you didn't like it that much in the first place.
Making and enforcing unreasonable rules such as not letting you sleep in on the weekends.
Making you take family pictures when you didn't (e.g. John's attitude and when you wanted to dress causally).
Forcing you to do things with the family when you didn't want to or wanted to be by yourself.
Suggesting that you take advantage of more things at Disney (e.g. mentioning the Eyes and Ears article on continuing your education and suggesting that you follow up).
Punishing you for your behavior in groups where the same behavior was acceptable for other group members.
Forcing you to take part in family gatherings when you never were a family oriented person (e.g. Thanksgiving with relatives).
Placing you in embarrassing situations where you couldn't say anything (e.g. a family member saying "Oh, isn't he cute.").
Saying that's your problem when someone was pestering you and you asked me to say something about it (e.g. Harry).
Jumping in when someone's else's kids complained and asking you to knock it off when you didn't feel you had done anything wrong.
Leaving you with Harvey and Sherry where you felt like a fish out of water when I went away on a trip.
Making you do things that worked for me when they didn't work for you.
Making you go to Camp Florida when you hated it and saying you over reacted since it was one of the best camps in the state.
Hanging over you and not letting you develop in your own way (e.g. saying you were reading too much Hardy Boys and requiring you to read Shakespeare before you read more).
Holding you back in things I didn't think were balanced that you felt were a difference of opinion or a conflict of interest.
Accusing you of going into Satanism because of what I felt was the over emphasis on Fangoria and heavy metal music.
Expressing disgust and saying you had to use your own money to buy music when you brought your first AC/DC album.
Sending you to a Jewish Montessori school rather than a general education program for your preprimary education.
Making you stay in the band when the only reason you stayed was to keep me off your case for not having an activity when you would have quit in your senior year.
Constantly bugging you about when and how to practice your music which kept you from going ahead when you wanted to (e.g. requiring you to do fundamentals first).
Pushing your growth and encouraging you to do something before you felt the urge.
Thrusting you into situations that you didn't like to the point where you got sick and tired of it.
Asking you not to bitch at your sister about her long distance calls when she visited you by saying I would talk to her.