Has anyone successfully changed their parent's perspective on something that you believe in?

Nope. My Mom still won’t smoke pot.

Hah. My father knew all the answers to everything and my mother thought he walked on water and believed everything he did. He never changed his mind. I just didn’t see them much after I was grown. No, is the answer.

I remember watching the Ed Sullivan show, with the Beatles first appearance, and my Father remarking “In a year, those guys are gonna be pumping gas.”
I tried very hard to convince him that Nixon was committing impeachable crimes, and he refused to listen. When Nixon resigned, he asked me to sit down with him, and go through it again.

My kids changed my mind on a bunch of stuff. I bounce a lot of things off of them.
My son in law thought it was really strange the first time he heard me ask my daughters advice about something. He said that his mother would never do that.
I remember my mom once saying “I’ve learned a lot from you. ” That made me feel good.

My dad finally changed his mind about abortion when he read my copy of Freakonomics. He changed his mind for different reasons than what I would argue, but same end result.

In fact, as I think about it, my parents have changed their minds on topics, some are pretty big deals, but I was just one voice of many that changed their minds. I wasn’t the one who necessarily changed their minds.

That we hire talented computer scientists from other countries, despite the fact that Germany has 2.9 million unemployed people. Retraining does have its limits.

It may be yes or may be not because its only depends on your parents affection & love with you. If they loves you then they never ignore you. But, yes sometime it also depends on your convincing power.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist or anything but I’ve given them a lot of things to think about. Anyway, they’re stocking up on food just in case.

I beat my mom to marriage equality by a good ten years. She eventually came around, but I can’t say that it was uniquely because of me.