about the way you were raised, what would it be?
2007-12-10 14:27:04 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
My parents would have had it much easier trying to raise 5 kids on a shoestring.
Merry Christmas Deb C !
2007-12-10 14:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by ncgirl 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'd change the way Mom talked to me. She always tried to keep me at home, instead of out doing stuff at school. She discouraged me from doing things I wanted to do, by telling me that........
I wasn't smart enough to do this...
I wasn't pretty enough to do that.....
I wasn't popular enough to be accepted in this club.....
I know that she was trying to protect me. Trying to make me want to be at home, and not reaching out into areas where I could possibly be hurt, or get my feelings crushed.
I still suffer from thinking maybe I'm not smart enough, or popular enough, etc. I hold back, and hope that someone else will have a good idea, and I can help them I don't bring up my own ideas, because maybe they're not good enough.
(we are all very careful here, to teach the grandkids that they are smart, capable, pretty, etc.)
2007-12-10 22:50:50 · answer #2 · answered by kiwi 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I guess it would have to be that I wish my mom hadn't come out to my Grandparent's and taken me home with her & dad
at 13 after living there from two mo's old straight from the hospital where I almost died. Four of my siblings were grown and away and only my sister 2 years older was still with them and she was the only one of the two of us that mom " saw". How can I ever erace that picture of us driving off and grandma & grandpa crying and waving from the porch swing? I couldn't figure out why grandma didn't fight , legally , for me, but it was just her nature, she was so sweet and kind and she loved her daughter. ( my mom) My life was never the same again.
2007-12-10 23:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by Eve 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To have a mother.
I think we were adopted to tell the truth, because photos of my mom holding us the day after we were born - twins - and that woman is as skinny as twiggy -- there is NO way you give birth to twins and the very next day look like that. I looked about 4 - 5 months pregnant for a month after each of my kids were born --
To have a real mother who loved me, talked to me - cared for me. Mine was abusive, beat me everyday just for the hell of it, very verbally abusive too.
I never once had a conversation with my mother or my father - not once in my whole life.
I have made peace with it but as a young adult it was SO hard for me to see young women with their mothers, talking and laughing - loving each other -- I feel as if I didnt have a mother.
The only love I had in my life was from my aunt and uncle in Saskatchewan, I spend part of every summer with them. My aunt tried to talk my mother into giving me to them but of course she wouldnt, it would make her look like a bad mother to all the people who thought she was a good person and a good mother.
2007-12-11 00:54:41 · answer #4 · answered by isotope2007 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a thing. I could not of gotten parents if I had tried to my self. They taught me how to have respect for others. They were and are very loving parents. Of course as they have aged now, mom is more moody I guess you could say while dad is still his mellow self. They are the best parents that any one could possibly ask for.
2007-12-10 23:15:47 · answer #5 · answered by SapphireB 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh, being raised in the forest trees was grand! I wouldn't change a thing!
2007-12-10 23:17:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
To not have lost my parents so young in my life. I miss them and wish they were still alive. I wish that my parents could have seen my little brother grow up and not have me raise him too. He really was affected by their death.
2007-12-11 12:20:05 · answer #7 · answered by slk29406 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have stopped my dad drinking and beating my mum up it was hell and we all walked on egg shells most of the time. When dad was out working on late shift the house was a different place, and mum was a fun person not a nervous wreck.
2007-12-11 06:45:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Being taught a little thrift would have been nice -- oh well, guess it's best to not have a lot of stale funds just laying around drawing interest.
2007-12-11 09:34:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing I had a great childhood with loving parents (not perfect but understanding and supportive) and my sisters and brother and I still get along most of the time. wish everyone had the kind of childhood I did
2007-12-11 02:37:00 · answer #10 · answered by jfjohnsonrn2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋