Parents are capable of mindless cruelty. Mine spent my childhood telling me how stupid I was. I went to university at a time when it was normal to have a major and a minor. Twenty-five years after graduating from university I informed my family that I graduated with three majors, a minor and two more classes would have made that a fourth major. I had classes towards a masters degree or two. Not using any of that I had gone into the business world and accomplished things that most MBAs can only dream of doing.

It' not what they say. It's who we are that matters.

Your parents are lucky to have such a wonderful son.