09-06-2010, 01:37 PM
I don't think any one of us can claim to have relationship with our parent's which don't carry some baggage; no matter how perfect that relationship is. It's the nature of being human and not been born into a cotton wool world. I don't know what to suggest really, perhaps tell your mum what you are doing and ask her to be positive and not to be alarmed (I didn't tell mine though so I've no experience on how it would go down) and perhaps buy your dad the set for Christmas (I'm thinking of getting a friend of mine it).
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.” - Carl Jung