Your parent, sadly, are not uncommon. Many parents see their role as guiding their offspring to an ideal. Frequently, these types of parents will claim that they have given you advantages they didn't have.
The problem here is these types of parents will never let you grow up.
Remember that scene in Life of Brian where his mom comes to the window and yells at the crowd, @He's not the messiah, He's a very naughty boy!
I knew a woman, many years ago. She was in her late 50s. She had worked hard at academia and then in business becoming the managing director of a major book store. She was also a prominent activist in an alternative lifestyle movement.
She once told me that, whenever she went to see her mother, the conversation would start with asking if she had changed her underwear today, did she have a bath. Then onto direct criticism of her eating, her sitting, before a general round of criticising her entire lifestyle.
I'm simply saying that, your parents won't change. They actually don't mean to cause you harm or frustration. They are simply unable to see you as an individual. And they are unlikely ever to.
Whatever you do, or whatever they do, try to remember they are what they are.
