diff --git a/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.h b/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.h
index 738f71b..34acb4d 100644
--- a/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.h
+++ b/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.h
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@
 @property (readonly, nonatomic, strong) id responseJSON;
 
 /**
- A bitmask of options that will be used by the NSJSONSerialization class that parses the JSON data from the response.
+ Options for reading the response JSON data and creating the Foundation objects. For possible values, see the `NSJSONSerialization` documentation section "NSJSONReadingOptions".
  */
-@property (readwrite) NSJSONReadingOptions parseOptions;
+@property (nonatomic, assign) NSJSONReadingOptions JSONReadingOptions;
  
 ///----------------------------------
 /// @name Creating Request Operations
diff --git a/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.m b/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.m
index c8def67..77ac8eb 100644
--- a/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.m
+++ b/AFNetworking/AFJSONRequestOperation.m
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static dispatch_queue_t json_request_operation_processing_queue() {
 
 @implementation AFJSONRequestOperation
 @synthesize responseJSON = _responseJSON;
+@synthesize JSONReadingOptions = _JSONReadingOptions;
 @synthesize JSONError = _JSONError;
 
 + (AFJSONRequestOperation *)JSONRequestOperationWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)urlRequest
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ static dispatch_queue_t json_request_operation_processing_queue() {
         if ([self.responseData length] == 0) {
             self.responseJSON = nil;
         } else {
-            self.responseJSON = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:self.responseData options:self.parseOptions error:&error];
+            self.responseJSON = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:self.responseData options:self.JSONReadingOptions error:&error];
         }
         
         self.JSONError = error;