[Typhoid]

So today I was thinking about a really specific part of social stigma. The part that has to do with parents, specifically.

I'd think most people like their parents [excluding teenagers] at any given time, and enjoy their company. Most people will have dinner with their parents, watch movies with their parents, play games with their parents - so why is it 'lame' to go do things with your parents? What is the difference between going to help a friend shop for _____, or going to help your mom shop for _____. This is something I've never understood.

As someone who would proudly consider his mother as not only the single nicest person in the world, but as the most important person in his life; I frequently spend time with my mom. Maybe it's just talking about problems we're individually having, maybe it's raunchy jokes, or maybe it's just talking about a TV show or movie - but these are all things I do with my friends, as well. Keeping in that vein, I also go out places with my mom. Be it for lunch, or if she's going grocery shopping, or if one of us is running errands. But then I started remembering several times when I've been asked what I'm doing, and replied with "Out with my mom", or "I'm getting groceries with/for my mom", and the response would be some type of tongue-in-cheek sarcastic remark, or a down-putting response. But why.

Small children like to hang out with their parents[until they turn about 14 or 15], and people over 35 tend to spend time with their parents without there being any type of critique. So why are the 20-ish years inbetween child and complete adult so terrible for spending time with your parents - because if you ask me, those are the years where you make the strongest type of parent-child bond you can, one that doesn't revolve around bitching or fighting, but rather around actual friendship...with your parents.