Dad likes hunting, outdoorsy stuff, golf, sports

Mom likes wine, decorating, stuff like that

dont want to spend lots (im 14 and im broke =P)

I was thinking buying them a – gift card to a nice restaurant so they could have their own night out…they need some of that they have been fighting alot lately =(

any ideas?

thanks a ton =D

Last year i made my mom a poster with all of me, my brother and sister’s pictures from our whole life on it. It said we love you supermom. She really loved it! But this year i have ran out of creative ideas. Im 17, my sister 13 and my brother 8. We have about 20-30 dollars to spend. Our parents are divorced and my dad refuses to help us out. HELP

mothers if u couild please help me out. im a 16 year old guy looking for something to get for my mom. my dad said we couldnt mess this one up so i need to get her something good. ( not chocolate and flowers lol)

any ideas?????

thank

My mother is depressed, frequently being sick, she has been depressed for the last 10 years since my dad died, however the sickness has only been apparent for the past year or so. i have older siblings but they left home when my dad died as they are older but i lived with my mum from my early teens until 19. in this time, my mum turned to alcohol, i found this difficult to deal with as i suppose i was craving attention, as a result, i got angry with my mum and on occasions (wether she was drunk or not as she would go from ‘normal’ to depressed on a regular basis) i would get so angry at her and wanting her to snap out of it that i had pushed her over and being what i would describe as being evil and unsensitive and mildly abusive. i have now left home to go to university, i have been away for 4 years but now she has got worse. when i go home i find it difficult to see her in this state, though she tries to make it up to me by buying me things and paying off my debts though i ask her not to but she gets offended if i dont accept. i now feel considerably guilty for my behaviour in the past (though i still get very angry with her nfor being ill as she can be very reluctant at times to get help, resulting in me shouting at her) the trouble is, i now can understand how she is feeling, as i too suffer from depression of the same symptoms, though i get angry at her and tell her to sort herself out even though i know from experience that this is hard (i have seeked and am seeking help throgh counselling and the doctors). i regret so badly the way i have treated her as this didnt help and isnt helping her depression, i just dont know what to feel and how to deal with what i have done, she didnt and doesnt deserve what i have put her through and even though my siblings know of the problem, they are trying to help but they have their own families and think we should both stop holing onto the past and get on with life but that isnt the problem, myself and my 2 siblings who are now in their 30′s( i am in my early 20′s) have all got irritated with my mum instead of listening to what she has to say, i really dont know what to do because everthing she does i get annoyed with, even if its her talking through a tv program, i lash out , although i do the same and i would get upset if my freinds told me off and told me to shut up for doing the same thing?

all these fathers day ads suggest that you should buy your dad a grill, electric power tools, flat screen tv, & etc . Things that aren’t exactly the most inexpensive gifts.

Yet for Mothers Day ads suggest we should buy flowers, chocolate, giftcards//postcards, & stuff of that nature for our mothers. Like the only expensive present idea that’s ever advertised for mother’s day is jewelry, but then again in the commercials you always see the husband buying that for his wife.

isn’t that a tad bit odd? lol

It’s my step-mothers birthday soon. She’s had a really, really rough time recently.. so I want to get something extra nice to cheer her up… but I don’t know what. My father is taking her on a cruise for her birthday (!!!) so whatever I get will just look worse! xD

Her interests.. she likes gardening, cats, her family.. and she loves selling things in her little shop on ebay. Her Ebay hobby is probably the biggest thing, now, that she enjoys… but what ‘ebay’ related gifts can I give her?

She has also been very busy recently, and she needs to relax (hence Dad buying her the cruise..), I thought of some spa-type vouchers, but I know that she just wouldn’t have time to take a day off and go.. Especially with taking time out for a cruise.. I want to get her something she can enjoy, not something that just rubs it in about how busy and rough things are for her recently Bleh!

Any suggestions?

okay this is not traditional, no my mom is not dead and I dont hate her, actually I love her to bits.

But I cant stand the concept of mothers day, and she does not want to go anywhere. She will be working on that day and really doesnt want to go eat out. I dont mind and neither does she.
My dad seems really set on taking her out, being upset that I didnt talk to him about where to take her out since Im not working and we have been through alot (There has been alot of stress with me getting dismissed form college).
I have a feeling he only wants to take her out because he feels that way we will have to take him out for fathers day. He nows I do not like him as a parent and not so much as a person either.

These holidays are a wretch in my side.

My church is having an M-day banquet, she is going to that.
right now I have 10 dollars and gotta go out to find a darn gift. I lost the card so I have to get that too.

How can I deal with this? I hate it all SO MUCH!!!!

It’s like we’re on a battlefield or something! Is there any advice on why we dont seem to get each other? I mean, my mom is like bi-polar or something. One minute she’ll be happy, then next I could say something that I see nothing wrong with and she turns into a friggin Harpy! For instance, she has been reading my mail, despite the fact she yells at me if I read hers *I havent done so for MONTHS*. Need an example? I was talking to my dad about how she forgot to bring in our pet rabbit one night, nothing specia’- she’d done it before, but we found it in the backyard the next morning with it’s head gnawed off… She told me she found it, and I thought she said she saw it hanging dead on the fence. I told this to my dad, and she screams at me the next day, "NO! I FOUND IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YARD! HOW DARE YOU LIE TO YOUR FATHER TO MAKE ME LOOK BAD!" Yeah, I dont really know where im going with this, but… Any ideas on how we can get along? A year with her and it still isnt happening…
God ive thought of a tape recorder so many times… There was a stage during the year in which she called me a *female dog* a couple times, and when I told my dad she turned around and denied it flat out, then yelled at me for three months afterwards.
Wise Guy, my mother hates my father. They divorced seven years ago, and now they dont talk anymore. She calls him a son of a * behind his back. Plus, we’re in two different countries!

My mother lives with me and my husband and 3 kids (ages 12, 10 and 6)
I have been caring for her for about 9 years since my dad died. She is 76 years old and suffers from severe depression, obsessive/compulsive disorder
she is a cutter. And other problems which she hasn’t even been diagnosed for.
She takes meds. but in all honesty nothing seems to help. She has always had mental problems but she was not treated until about 5 years ago. As a young child I spent most of my time with my grandparents. I have such a hard time dealing with her problems. She is affecting my family but I don’t have the heart to put her in a nursing home. Is there places that would take her for maybe a night or two on occasion and would that be costly?

My son is 7 1/2 months old. His father loves him and thinks the world of him. I know it’s not right for me to keep his son from spending the night with him. he been asking and then finally he just stopped. He does everything for his son or at least his family does. They want to keep him for like 2 weeks at a time. The only time my son spent the night with his father is when I was in the hospital right after my pregnancy. I was still having a lot of pain and stuff that I couldn’t deal with and they kept me overnight. I later found it that it was gallstones. Every child needs a mother and father. I know his dad isn’t happy even though he doesn’t talk about it. I have only like let him keep his son for hours at a time like while I was at school or something and then go pick him up. I just love my son I can’t help it and I know a lot of mothers deal with this. I don’t got out a lot. I don’t have friends I can hang out with so those kinds of answers won’t work.