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For me, my parents accepting my religion isnt a real big issue, my family basically has no religion. My mom and dad stopped going to church when they married and decided not to make me go and just let me decide what I wanted to become. They supported me no matter what decision I made.

However, my grandmas on both sides are Catholic and Christian, one I already told and she isnt happy about it and whenever we try to meet for lunch, etc, she talks about her beliefs to me and tries to convince me thats the right path.

Also, I have a really good friend here who is Pagan, but she's 17 and living with her Aunt and Uncle because her father died when she was 14 and her mother is clinically insane, in a mental institution, but she lives in a Morman Household, of cops. Whenever I come over, I feel like I'm on pins and needles with them. Thankfully they allow me to hang out with her and her cousin but I am not allowed to do anything Wiccan with her because its banned in the household. I feel really bad because this upsets my friend terribly. she cant wait to get out of the house and live her own life. However, the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with is also Morman.

the best way to go about it is to just tell them. if you hide it from them there is always a chance that they could just get more mad than they evean were before.

Alright, so I can't even tell my dad that I don't like being Mormon. How am I supposed to tell him I'm Wiccan?! sad But I really feel that I have to tell him, maybe not now, but soon...

Oh, i've already been there. My whole family is Christian, except for me and my mother. Whenever I go visit my grandmother she searches through my bags and takes all my books, and some candles I always have. Then she makes me go to church. I've just given up on bringing anything there. I finally got her to accept me last time i went though, and now she doesn't mind too much. My aunt is totally different story though. xd I talk too much, sorry. sweatdrop

Mom gets a little freaked when I bring up stuff like needing a cauldron. (I called it a kettle and she still immediately thought up brewing potions and stuff.) I tease her by saying I'm not ready to turn her into a toad yet. My dad is clueless. Literally. I bought Scott Cunningham's Guide for the Solitary Practitioner and dad did look at it, but he wasn't interested because it had barely any pictures. (He's kinda illiterate, but he's getting better.) Dad hates when I burn incense and mom is afraid of fire. I am very careful with my candles and incense anyway.

im gonna tell my rents eventually... or ill wait a year till i move out...
anyways, something funny, my gay friend tells his homophobic dad that all his spells, etc are all science experiments, and he buys it...

I got around to telling my mother that I havn't considered myself christian for a while... She was apparently dissapointed... but she kinda laughed and went like "Hm... Perhaps I should go buy you a few books on other religions and see if you take more interest in those, instead..."

I told her she could still drag me to church every sunday if she wanted, since it's always been sort of a family thing, but that I wouldn't end up listening to a thing they said... XD
She's like "whatever"...

But I don't know about her reaction to Paganism...

Wow. I guess I was lucky. My parents were supportive. When we were to go to the books store, they'd buy me wiccan books. My mom even bought me my very own Tarot deck (which I still have today, over 11 years!). My best advice is to simple talk to them when you feel comfortable about it. Tell them you are interested in Wicca and that's it is a religion, just like many others and not devil worship. And if they are willing to learn more about it, let them read a few books you have. If you have hard-headed parents, you have to give them time. They love you and eventually will accept your choice. When they realize it makes you happy and its not harming you or anyone else, they will be more supportive.