Do your respect your parents?

[Deeko]

Frankly, when I was in high school, I hated my parents. My mom was beyond protective...I didn't see a rated R movie will I was 15, and that was the least of my worries with her. My dad was extremely cheap...which is extremely opposite to my spend-freely attitiude I still have.

All this aside, I have the utmost respect for my parents. Whatever they did, they raised two highly-succseful children(I am doing well on scholarship at a private college, my brother just graduated with honors from his school this june and already has a fulltime job lined up), and they always provided for us, even though my Dad, the main providor, is without a college degree.

Its amazing how your perspective changes when you grow up, isn't it?

 

[oniq]

My parents rock too ;D

 

[Yossarian]

I respect my dad because he worked hard, a lot of overtime, to make it possible for me to attend any college I wanted. My mom did the basics, cook, clean, etc. so that was good while it lasted. She then lost all my respect when she left my dad after 28 years of marriage, took all his money, and fvcked him and my brother over financially, without ever bothering to talk to me before she left.

 

[bobbybe01]

Yeah, there were times in my teenage years when it was tough to understand where they were coming from. I always had a personal ambition to NOT be like my Dad. Sometimes I thought he was a moron. However, now, to my sadness, fear and joy, I am somewhat becoming like him. In the end, I appreciate how they raised me. I was lucky and fortunate.

 

[Excelsior]

Yes. They have raised my sisters and me well (IMO). We have always had what we needed, and more. I am blessed.

Besides that, my mom has her psychotic moments*, but she is still my mom, and I love her.



*I think it is the menopause.

 

[oogabooga]

i <3 my parents too, fortunatley, one hasn't screwed the other (and the rest of the family) over, and i hope it stays that way *knocks on wood*

My mom gets crazy too, perhaps it is menopause.. it seems wierd.

 

[SuperTool]

No, not really. My grandparents basically raised me.
Father left when I was 6, mother had mental issues that rendered her unfit to parent.
Love yes, respect no.

 

[Dacalo]

I am really blessed to be in the situation I am in.

At times I have been frustrated at my parents, but after all is said and done, they are awesome parents and I am thankful.

 

[blodhi74]

I respect them a lot ..... they instilled the values in me .... they treated me and my siblings as adults when reached a certian age ..... every issue was open for discussion.... love my mom to death .... Dad , rest in peace :heart:

 

[TitanDiddly]

Yes. Although we have our disagreements, I'm thankful that they raised me with my head pointed in the right direction.

 

[ucdbiendog]

yah. no one likes their parents much while theyre growing up. but my dad has a two year degree and has worked his ass off to support our family and has a damn good job considering his education. not to mention he basically self taught himself how to to electrical, plumbing and woodworking around the house. my mom was a good mom all while going back to college and getting her BS in bio-chem, and now is working on her masters as well. I'm damn proud of my parents and have the utmost respect for them.

EDIT: and if i were to have kids, i would try to raise them just as they raised myself and my sister, so that says something

 

[BigJ]

I have ALWAYS respected my parents. I haven't agreed with their decisions many times, but they've sacrificed so much for me, my brother, and my sister, they deserve my utmost respect. I'm extremely thankful to have had both of them as parents.

 

[mitchafi]

Originally posted by: BigJ
I have ALWAYS respected my parents. I haven't agreed with their decisions many times, but they've sacrificed so much for me, my brother, and my sister, they deserve my utmost respect. I'm extremely thankful to have had both of them as parents.

Same, and most of the times I disagreed with them they were ultimately right.

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

yes.

 

[anxi80]

respect my mother, being a single mom working 10 hours a day to put food in my mouth and clothes on my back. taught me responsibility early, and never had anything handed to me, had to earn it (after i got my first job at 15 and a half, if i wanted something, it came out of my own pockets). but this also meant i had to raise myself a lot of the time. but i think im a better person for it. when i see my friends still have their parents do their laundry, or cook their meals, i sneak away a smile.

my dad on the other hand, hell, im more mature than him, and i still act like a goof most of the time. he's like a kid, and i dont ever see him growing up.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: BigJ
I have ALWAYS respected my parents. I haven't agreed with their decisions many times, but they've sacrificed so much for me, my brother, and my sister, they deserve my utmost respect. I'm extremely thankful to have had both of them as parents.

 

[melly]

I may not have always understood why they said, "No" when I said, "But everyone else gets to..." with regards to curfew, getting designer things, being allowed to go somewhere...but now I do. I have a lot of respect for their beliefs and know that they raised us with morals their parents upheld and out of fear that we'd end up delinquent. We all turned out successful which is more than I can say for the parents who let their kids do whatever they wanted.

 

[nageov3t]

I felt totally abandoned and ignored as a kid, and I still feel that, in an emotional sense (though it didn't have any financial repurcussions) they pretty much just stopped caring about me somewhere around the age of 10.

but I respect them as people, and I don't think it did too much damage to my psyche.

 

[sandmanwake]

Love? No. Like? No. Respect? No.

 

[Gurck]

Not at all

 

[aphex]

My parents gave me alot more independance than other kids my age when I was younger... As a result, the transition to college and beyond has been extremely smooth. While friends who were never given that independance had issues moving away for the first time, and some still do to this day (5 years later)

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Its amazing how your perspective changes when you grow up, isn't it?

always happens....

i have the utmost respect for my parents as well..

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Frankly, when I was in high school, I hated my parents. My mom was beyond protective...I didn't see a rated R movie will I was 15, and that was the least of my worries with her. My dad was extremely cheap...which is extremely opposite to my spend-freely attitiude I still have.

All this aside, I have the utmost respect for my parents. Whatever they did, they raised two highly-succseful children(I am doing well on scholarship at a private college, my brother just graduated with honors from his school this june and already has a fulltime job lined up), and they always provided for us, even though my Dad, the main providor, is without a college degree.

Its amazing how your perspective changes when you grow up, isn't it?

Same here. My dad jumped on an opportunity where you can "work abroad in America and earn your citizenship too" kinda deal. So after he finished military training in Taiwan, he left my mom and my 1 year old self + 3 year old brother to pursue a better life.

No college education whatsoever but he had the electronics/technical skills to get the job. STOLL America was the company. And of course, a few months later he sprung the whole family to the US. Cheap and angry at how the American lifestyle made me and my brother lazy, but then as we grew up (and he found religion) I came to repect him even more. As for my mom, same story. No college education and was unemployed til a few years ago. Tried the USPS but found it too demanding, then landed a job in accounting for a distribution company which supplies most of those clothing stores you see in malls.

I wish I had the opportunity to have grew up in a ghetto-er financial background so I could learn to value hard work

 

[bmacd]

-=bmacd=-

 

[Isla]

Absolutely. But then again, my parents are not Baby Boomers. They are the children of immigrants, and they grew up during the Great Depression. They understood how important family and community are. We didn't really go to church much--- so religion was never really a big part of our lives. I think my parents understood that all organized religions are social clubs in the end, and they are not club people. But honesty, integrity, and compassion were the values my parents taught me on a daily basis.

I did think my parents were TOTALLY square when I was a teenager in the 1980's. My friends all had Baby Boomer parents, and most of them were divorced, remarried, and some even smoked pot with their kids. But not my boring, straight, hopelessly naive parents! If my mother said a bad word, I was shocked. My dad cussed all the time in Spanish instead of English, which was comforting somehow.

Now I look back and realize that I was the one who had truly cool parents... parents with integrity who loved me unconditionally and set an excellent example. They didn't care about competing with the neighbors, or staying 'young'... they cared about making sure we had what we needed for body, spirit, and mind. I don't think my parents meant to do this, but they raised me in a way to give me protection from "The Machine"... the social programming that makes us think what isn't important IS important. I am thankful every day for that!