So desperately needy for her mom's approval.
"You don't know the power you have over me!! One look and I'm four years old again! Because nothing I do can ever please you!"
Puh-leez. She's so pathetic.
That's how it is in some families. I'm not Asian (I'm African American), and I was a kid when I first saw this. I could completely relate.
shareIt is pathetic, but not for the reason you state. Some people grow up desperate for their mother's approval because they rarely/never get it. They do ANYTHING they think will please their mother, and it is never enough. I know exactly how Waiverly felt. I hated her character the most, and that is probably because I could relate almost completely to her.
Yes, the condoms being thrown in her mother's face was very funny, but at the same time very sad. Waiverly was just so frustrated at her mother's seeming indifference to her daughter, that Waiverly basically "lost it," or exploded in frustration, and the clothes and condoms being thrown around was pretty much another way to try and get her mother's attention and a reaction, this time in a negative way. Trying to get a positive reaction/remark/attention from her mother had never worked up to that point, so she tried a different tack, but that didn't work either.
It is very hard to please a woman like Waiverly's mother. Women like that for whatever reason, think that their child should not be praised, but should be criticized because it will build character, and the child will not have too much pride. Well, mothers like this, unfortunately are successful in their task, because their daughters grow up with tons of insecurities. Yes, Waiverly had some pride, but she had many insecurities, too. At twenty-something years old, she was STILL DESPERATE for her mother's approval, and still had not gotten it, and in all honesty, was unlikely to ever get it.
The trouble is, mothers like this don't have a clue how to be any other way than how they are, and what's worse is that they don't think they've done anything wrong/caused their daughter(s) any harm. These girls grow up without an understanding of how to live for themselves. They spend their life trying to please others. Sometimes something will happen to cause them to "wake up" and realize that they will never please the person they are working so hard to please, but too often, they waste their lives trying to work in the "right" job, and live in the "right house/neighborhood" and marry the "right" man, etc., but nothing makes a difference or gets them noticed in their mother's eyes. Soon their life is more than half over, and what do they have to show for it? Nothing.
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Most people want their parents approval even if they pretend otherwise. I didn't find anything pathetic about it. The only thing pathetic is your post.
Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Criedshare