that our parents are disappointed in us...
Parents only want what is good and though one cannot doubt their intentions, their way of going about this may often be wrong.
However, it is when children tie themselves up in knots trying to keep on the path that their parents have charted out, that trouble starts.
Parents and children themselves have to realize and understand that they are all individuals in their own right. As such, though their lives are joined by Life, they are each responsible and answerable to Life for their own lives. Being the older ones in the relationship, we must offer, indeed shower, our children with unconditional love and release them so that they can find themselves and fulfill their own destiny.