How do I respectfully deal with my parents undermining my authority as a mother?

You have got to grow up and leave the nest. Part of being an adult is figuring out how to survive. Not living at home of your youth.

Your parents know this and will try to take advantage, though not deliberately. Who else can they have a maid free of charge?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.