I cannot emphasize this enough as a practical life skill: learn how to say no to authority figures. Learn how to tell them that nothing they can do to you will change your mind. Disappoint your parents. You have to live your own life.
ONCE UPON A TIME REWATCH: 6.12, MURDER MOST FOUL
Once upon a time, there was a king named George. He had great riches, but no son. And then there was a farmer named Robert, poor as dirt, yet he had two sons. Can you guess how this story ends?