I do not agree with this at all. Believe it or not my partner cooks and enjoys the kitchen more than I do (and NO he is not homosexual or bi-sexual)

I myself have had these issues. I'm a teenager that is ment to be going out exploring the world, getting into issues and learning to get out of them. I'm ment to be exploring the world without a person holding my hand the whole way. As a child we also are ment to learn this. But we cannot develop this if our parents keep interferring with everything we do and keep telling us every little thing to do. There should be a boundary yes, but with my own experience and by what I have seen, parents just need to trust their kids more and teach them honesty - and trust that if they have shown us life properly and brought us up right like they are ment to we shouldn't have to listen to them for every single little thing we do!! I'm a New Zealander, I'm an adult here and i'm 18. And my mother, you name it will tell me what to do with everything!! 'You should put that in the rubbish...you shouldn't go there the people are criminals... your putting out the washing wrong!!!' I'm ment to be going on a holiday soon to a place 9 hours away from where I live to meet my boyfriend who had to leave for a stable job and have a holiday, you guessed it, again my mother goes "You shouldn't go up there....long distance relationships never work your wasting your money..." Well if I listened to her now I would be wasting a lot of money I already spent as everything is booked. And this time around I'm not listening to her and shes making my life hell. If its not worth it, I would rather she would let me figure this out myself than try and force me to listen to her words. For all she knows she could just be wrong!