seniors what are you ?

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.

I was blessed with great parents who guided me in a gentle way. I am so glad they did. One of the most important things that you can give to your children is the ability to be socially accepted no matter where they go or who they are with.

My dad gave me the freedom to express myself artisticaly he never put me down for making no money in music and he was a very successfull business man.

My mother taught me not to use foul language. She taught me to pray and to trust in God for my needs. She taught me to respect older people and people of different races as well as handicapped people. She worked every day and taught me to be honest, but "the greatest of these is love."

My oldest sister taught me how to cook, helped me learn how to sew and embroidery.

I am very thankful, I spent a lot of time in hospital as a child and my family never missed a visit.

SD fan said it best about a good work ethic which my late father had.I am appreciative of instilling in

my sisters and myself a sense of honesty and integrity.Plus common sense to know if you make dumb decisions the consequences are going to be unpleasant.

From my mother a love of reading,fine music and proper English.Slang was frowned upon in our home.From my late maternal grandfather:my athletic talent and my common sense approach to health and nutrition.From my maternal grandmother:the love of animals.From both the love and fear of God and the love of His Son.