Your parents.....

What kind of effect do you feel your parents have(had for some) on your personality and character? Do you follow in their foot steps in those areas? Are they people with poor character that you've learned to overcome, or are they good people who you've deviated from?

Grade your parents, A-F, and elaborate on how and why you graded them that way.

 

my parents are WAY TO COMPLICATED to grade. they love me, they love my children, they drive me crazy, i drive them crazy, we're all crazy anyway but we have a good time. i always know i have a place to go.

 

My parents did amazing with what they had. My mother knows how to love like no other. My dad was hard but what I took away was priceless.
I take parts of both of them and incorporate into my highly succesful life.
God Bless the mamas and the papas

 

I wasn't influenced much by them at all. I don't consider myself to be like either of my parents. They are good people and did a decent job raising me, but I really don't think they had much influence on me at all. I have probably influenced their views more than they have mine.

 

They were good people. I'm an awful lot like both of them.

 

D-


too many reasons to list.

 

B +

i'm completely influenced by them. they worked hard when we had nothing when they could have taken the easy road. even though i've fucked up plenty of times and had plenty of chances to take the easy road, i've chosen to work through it.

they were always family oriented....my parents coached my friends and i in soccer pretty much until high school. well, my dad did more coaching, but my mom was always around. they always made my swim meets, bball games, baseball, football...you get the idea...

my mom instilled in me that reading is essential in personal growth. provided me with plenty of reading material - worked at a bookstore, so i pretty much have a small library at home.

so yea, they are good people. yes, they've made there fair share of mistakes, but i rather take what they did good.

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then again, i think woman should do everything for me

 

B+ to an A-

I know that I am just like them. They inspired me to become a scientist and instilled in me a love of the outdoors and a love of good healthy food and I am forever appreciative.

My only complaint is that they expect too much of me and when I disappoint them they are not understanding and it makes me depressed.

 

what are parents..?

 

awwhh, i wish i didnt have any though...

ha, same.
my parents HONESTLY did a horrible job of bringing me, my brother and sister up...

 

I'd give my mom a solid C and my dad a resounding F.

My mom get's points for usually having a good head on her shoulders and loving me despite all the neurosis. My dad get's an F's for punching me in the face daily as a kid, living in constant fear for my life and trying to shoot me twice.

 

i give my parents an A

they are unique in every way, as was my upbringing. they made me the person i am today. i wasted some time resenting them in the past, i now know that resenment is useless. you can only accept and love them for everything they have done for you, or havent done.

 

man dude, im sorry.
i know exactly what you've been through... sucks doesnt it?

i wish i could love my parents though, and even today they dont really understand why im not incredibly social with them. *sigh

 

No big deal. I'm much stronger from the sum of my experiences in the long run.

 

yeah i can agree with that..
but thoughts of suicide were prevelant in my earlier years...

ive moved on though and now quite content with life.

 

my parents heavily influenced my life, both in what TO DO and what NOT to do. i think the best thing i learned from them is holding grudges is stupid, forgiveness is easy, and while many of us can't help but be prideful sometimes, centering your entire being on your pride is foolish. it's okay to say you're wrong, it's okay to say you're right, and at the end of the day, love is way more important than being wrong OR right. loyalty, despite petty differences, is a bedrock for any family...and whoever files for divorce has to take the kids.

 

i guess the only thing i ever really learned from my parents is how to be a GREAT dad.....

 

my dad was never around so.. No grade for him!
my mom, a D-
she fucked up alot in ways that have changed my life forever. Damaged beyond repair. at the same time, her lack of parenting skills made me strong woman I am today. I rely on myself and learned that in order to have good things happen, you have to put that same good energy out there. She influences my daily life. It is my mission to be the complete opposite of how she led her life. I WILL NOT become her.

 

that's awesome.

 

haha thanks, im going to love my kids SO much.