Are you thankful for how your parents brought you up?

Question

or do you wish it had been different?

also,are you proud of your parents?

Answer 1

Oh Very thankful, if not for their guidance, and prayers, I will be on the streets running around crazy.

I would not trade my parents for any other parents...they are the best.

Answer 2

My parents divorced when I was very young & my Mother wasn't a very good mother morally speaking.......she had what she had & looking back, she couldn't do much with it I guess. I was actually brought up in Kids homes & then boarding school.
I would be a very different person now had my mother brought me up, so I'm happy that I was taken away from her & placed into care I guess.....but they were both equal evils in an un-equal way.....neither were the best choices.
I can't say I'm proud of my mother, but I don't hate her. We all make mistakes. She's still the woman that gave birth to me & I respect her for her position as being my mother.

I am however very proud of one person that had a great influence over my early years.....our housemother (Miss Dobbs) I never saw her after the age of 11 (when I got sent to boarding school) but I've never forgotten her for all the things she taught me & for being the lovely caring woman that she was.......it's a shame that she died before I was old enough to return to the kids home & thank her.

Answer 3

I am thankful for how my mother and my father brought me up but on the other hand i wish it would have been different. My father likes to aggitate alot so it gets people pissed off when he gets started and my mother is always argueing. Even tho we have our differences I still love my parents because some people either has a single parent or no parents at all so I am thankful. I am also proud of them. I might not like how my mother dresses sometimes and try to help her out but I realized that she isnt trying to impress anybody so it dont matter to her. My father always is dressed classy and its a good thingso yes I am very thankful and proud of my mommy and daddy.

Answer 4

Thankful, yes, because my Mother did the best she could. She did not compromise her values, was rigid, and at times downright mean, She taught me everything I was willing to learn, and more. She lived her standard of ethics. In these regards she was a wonderful example. The other stuff, I chose not to emulate, and successfully raised my two children with-out making those mistakes. Made plenty of my own, I'm sure. No, I don't wish it was different, can't go back in time, it was what it was. I am proud of my Mother for all the courageous choices she made, and how hard she worked to achieve her goals. She was an unusual woman for her times.

Answer 5

I am thankful that I have become the girl/woman I am today and I am absolutely sure that most of the stuff I know or most of the decisions I make come from the little voice inside my head that has been set there especially by my mum who was a wise woman. And I am proud of my parents, of everything they reached in their lives. Hope they are proud of me as well.

Answer 6

I cannot stand my mum, never have done, I am nearly 30 and haven't spoke to her for years, cos she is such a bad example to my children and she acts like a stupid teenager all the time, when she isn't being over moody she is drunk and stupid. So no I am not proud of her, but my stepdad gave me all the right guidance and taught me right from wrong, he also was allways there for me when my mum was wrong, and he taught me about being kind and how to deal with money etc. He is the best dad ever,( he married my mum when I was about 4) and if it wasn't for him my life would have been a different one alltogether, and for that I am very gratefull. I still see him now, and he is my kid's grandad and they love him to bits. My mum left after I grew up, and went off with a fellow drunk.

Answer 7

I'm not proud of the way my parents, or should I say parent brought me up. But I am proud of the person my mother has become. We had a hard life, but she's learned a lot from her mistakes. I have also learned from her mistakes as well, and have vowed not to make them myself.

Answer 8

Im so incredibly proud of the way my mum brought me up. Without sounding egotistical, she really couldn't have done a better job! Also a big up to my step-dad for raising me like is his own. Well done to my real father for not completely screwing me up with his absenteeism as and when it suited him (or her majesty).

Im 25 now and wonder if i will ever grow out of going home to my parents just for a hug?

Answer 9

In the sense of 'what did not destroy me made me strong', yes!

Seriously, I had a very tough time as a kid and teenager because my parents tried to bring me up in a christian sect in which I did not believe. On the other hand, I am aware that all the crap they handed out was down to the fact that they loved me and wanted me 'saved'. Religion screws good people up, so I don't blame them, and I know my mum made a lot of sacrifices to ensure I had a good standard of living, so I am proud of her in a way.

Answer 10

I wish it had been different.
I don't blame them any more for how I was raised; they only knew what they knew, and at some stage, we all have to take responsibility for how we are; I just wish I had been loved.

Proud?
No. My dad was a decent man, but totally overshadowed and controlled by my mother. He never stood up to her. She bullied him shamelessly.
Nothing to be proud of.

Answer 11

I Kissed the ground right now if I can have a moment with my dad. He past away in 1991, my mom is very much alive "Thank you God" she is in a nursing residential with full blown Alzheimer's at the age of 67. I am above and beyond grateful, for my parents and I thank and give blessing to my lord for being here today...without my parents there would be no me. Yes I am very very proud of my parents for raising five wonderful children. Neither one of us would change a thing..JUST GIVE US A MOMENT WITH OUR DAD..

WE LOVE YOU MOM & DAD...