Why am I not good enough for my parents?

In my personal experience, I felt this way for a long time because my mother had post natal depression after I was born, but just know that you don't need your parents praise to feel confident about yourself as long as you are doing your best you should know you are good enough despite anyone elses opinions

Parents can be difficult! They want the very best for their children but sometimes don't realize the pressure and stress that life brings for people of our generation. Your parents will be pushing you because they think this is what will get the best results - they want you to succeed and will by any means necessary strive for you to achieve the best you can. Try communicating with them. Explain calmly the way that you feel, explain that (if you feel this way) you can do no more. They love you dearly and it will mean more to have you happy then to have you suffer and think badly of them.

Think of it in a different perspective, maybe your parents couldn't complete their goals in life so they are trying to achieve them through you which is wrong. Try explaining them about your goals and plans and slowly making them believe that what you do doesn't depend on the end result but the effort.

Sometimes, parents put a lot of pressure on their kids, and it seems like it's because they think their kids aren't good enough. However, most of the time parents just love their children and want them to be the best version of themselves. Just let your parents know how you feel about them pushing you and, if everything's in order, they'll understand and pull back. People show love in different ways, and sometimes we have to work to understand their love.

As long as you're good enough for yourself, other people don't matter. Not all parents are good parents, maybe yours are but they need to open their eyes to see that their child is perfect just the way he/she is. Unless he is a serial killer.

Your parents have an image of who they'd like you to be and they want to see you happy and their expectations met so that they know they have brought up a worthy person. More often than not that puts extreme pressure on kids and often crushes their dreams. Parents need to learn that the child they bring up is not an extension of themselves so they have to let them be free and make choices and kids need to start putting boundaries in their relationships with their parents if they are too overbearing. There are ways to deal with this but mostly it comes down to realising that you are your own person and you are worthy even if your parents aren't happy with some of your choices.

You may feel this way due to stress and anxiety over exams. As long as you always try your best, that should always be good enough for your parents.

Your parents wish you the best and so, they wish of you to be better than you are, because they think that you can do things better than you do it now, overlooking all your frustrations.

Your parents expect so much more from you because they want you to do better at life. You are enough for your parents no matter what, but they just want you to succeed at life.

Nobody should ever make you feel not good enough. Everybody is special in their own ways and has much to offer the world around them. If someone including your parents is making you feel bad about yourself that’s a “them” issues. They’re are the ones unhappy and not secure within themselves. That’s why they bring others down and make others feel inadequate or not good enough.