How would you describe your parents?

Question

I was just sitting here thinking about my parents and I wanted to know...
How would you describe your parents?
Please... Be as detailed as you can.

Answer 1

My parents are in their 80's and just celebrated their 63 wedding Ann. yesterday. My father was in the NYFD for thirty years and mom was a stay at home mom, raising 8 children.But if she had chosen to go to work she was a trained nurse. My parents own three houses and travel a lot. They love their kids and grand kids and we all have a pretty close relationship. My mom and I look alike and we love to read books and doing crafts. My father love photography and is always taking pictures of everything. He's won several awards for his pictures. Mom is active in her senior center and she is active at her church. Dad is still active in things for the Fire Department and is a leader at his church. All in all I think that they raised us very well considering the time that we were being raised during the civil rights movement and raising 8 kids on a fireman's pay wasn't easy but all of us went to Catholic grammar school and Three of us went to Catholic high school. Five have graduated college and four are professionals. None have gotten into serious trouble with the law and we all have made good lives for ourselves and those of us who have children are doing well. My parents wish it to live long enough to at least see all of the grand kids graduate high school if not college, they have four more graduations to go.

Answer 2

My parents were great.

I remember getting a red hand mark on my leg and a stern (fair) talking to when I was about six years old for setting fire to a paper bag (a big one, to a six year old) under the garden shed but other than that I was left to my own devices; to learn from my own mistakes.

I learned a lot.

Maybe I was just lucky enough to be the last of a big brood so my parents had also learned by that stage that children don't need every step followed and that getting burned every now and then was a good thing for my development.

Paci

Answer 3

My parents were divorced after 25 years of marriage, so they had a very volatile, toxic relationship. Needless to say, growing up wasn't easy. My Mom is bipolar and I never knew which personality would meet me at the door when I came home from school. She is very smart and has 2 Masters Degrees in education. My Dad is actually my step Dad but he adopted us when we were young. He was in the Air Force for 25 years and is pretty uptight. He stresses out over the simplest things, still..However, the older I've gotten the better my relationship has gotten with my parents. I have forgiven them for many things that happened when I was growing up. I'm closer to my Mom than my Dad. We share common interests like reading and movies. All in all, I love my parents and appreciate them now more than ever.

Answer 4

well, my mom is a "self-medicator" so to speak. she's an old hippie and she smokes pot daily, drinks wine nightly, but holds a very steady job and is actually a pretty responsible person aside from all of that. she is bi-polar and clinically depressed person. She is not social with people she doesn't know, however she loves to get together with her friends and sees them whenever she can.

my dad is a bit of an alcoholic of sorts. My mom also thinks he may dabble in cocaine. but we aren't sure. he is very reclusive and we only see him a few times each year. He is kind of weird, as you might imagine. He has a very dry sense of humor and is terribly anti-social.

I am grown and away from all that craziness. I am totally drug-free and only drink on occasion. I am raising my kids responsibly. My husband is contantly asking me how I grew-up to be so "normal" and I am not really sure of that myself. I think that I just took the good and left the bad from my experiences with my parents. If I didn't like how they handled a situation, I handled it differently when I was faced with the same or a similar situation.

Answer 5

They gave us food and shelter,so that is good. They tend to play mental games on us using one sibling after another. They are not fun to be around, so I don't live near. I try to come to some understanding of it all, but there is none. I still feel I was adopted (or wish I was). But they are my parents and if I had a choice, it wouldn't have been them.
I feel they are very sad mixed up people so I have to go on from that and hope I don't fall in their bad places.

Answer 6

my parents are awesome! of course, i didn't always feel this way. they were really protective of me and strict when i was growing up. at the same time, they did let me make some of my own decisions.

now that i am an adult, we are more like friends. they still worry and get on my nerves every now and then but they respect me as an adult and don't meddle in my life too much. i really appreciate them and think they did a great job raising me!

Answer 7

Well my parents are white, Canadian, suburbanite folks who still complain about money at the age of 53, which they are both. They love to gamble but hate saving up. They don't travel much and they have the most awful taste when it comes to food. They are good people but annoying as hell because I have to live with them.

Answer 8

One is a controlling abusive jerk and the other is a follower. If Daddy does it it must ok and he must have a good reason