what are you thankful for from your parents the way they raised you use of proper English stand up straight get good grades be honest etc? and how do you feel it is different now ?
2010-08-26T15:22:20Z
thank you for all with the interesting answers now here is little bout me my parents expected good grades anything less then a b was unacceptable we had to stand up tall no leaning poor posture the walls were not falling down so we did not have to put hands on them and lean treat others with respect and kindness an education is the only thing someone can not take from you they can take your house car etc but not your education be something that is recession proof - in other words have a job where someone will always need you like medical field two wrongs do not make a right for ever dollar you spend have a dollar in the bank to match that to name a few things that were instilled in me now it seems as if no one cares about anyone anything kids run wild parents are strung out on drugs broken households i could go on with this ...
SD Charger Fan2010-08-26T14:25:55Z
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I think my answer would have to go deeper than just good language and good grades. I am thankful they instilled in me a good work ethic, not to be lazy, greedy or hateful. That I have to earn respect, and not to take anything for granted. They also taught me that in life everyone has choices. And it is what you do with those choices is what makes you. So do not to blame anyone else but yourself if you make a bad one. I came from a broken home and I was raised by my grandparents, those values are still with me and I passed them on to my children. Now that I am older I see what they were trying to do when they did not let me go out on dates or if they thought a friend of mine was just not right for me to hang out with. It all makes perfect sense now!
My parents must have done something good raising us children because none of us ever committed crimes, charged, tried, and imprisoned. We all had our own families and raised out children the same. No one in any family have had to rely on the government for assistance such as welfare and or Medicaid. The difference today, today's society lacks responsibility and respect. Responsibility for their own actions and respect for others.
I appreciate my Mom teaching me about unconditional love. She taught me that just b/c a person has a bad past (or present), does not mean that there is no good in them and they will often try to find the good in them if treated with loving kindness. This lesson opened up a whole branch of solid friendships for me. Not to say the person changed their whole way of life, but they didn't treat me badly or unjust & that was a good thing.
My Dad taught me about social manners. But not just in the form of how to behave. He said it was to teach people around us that they were worth our respect unless, after being treated fairly, they showed us differently. But it was up to us to make the 1st gesture to show respect through some common social manners.
I guess both lessons taught me that lifting a person up or treating them better than they earned or deserved seemed to make them want to hold themselves up to a higher standard than they were used to with others. Not that there weren't disappointments, but I got much less of these in life than I noticed from others around me who did not treat people so nice from the start.
I am very thankful. They would have also limited my time on the Internet and not allowed me to access sites that were not proper by only allowing me online when one of them was in the family room where the computer should be. My education and moral upbringing would have been first and foremost.
I am thankful I was taught to do chores and to cook, clean, sew, garden and do laundry. I knew a student who was about to graduate from college (with a teaching degree) who never learned to do a load of laundry or to cook or balance her checkbook, she told me her mother was getting upset because she was taking everything to the dry-cleaners and having it cleaned, mostly washable items, and when she came home every month or so state she brought her underwear, socks, etc. She told me her mother did everything for her, apparently she was the pretty princess of the family and got spoiled. Saw it many times at the university.