What are some of the most positive things your parents passed down to you?

angel4732

How to love unconditionally

JeromeBarry1

My dad taught me to work hard and stay out of jail. I mimicked him. Mom taught me to cook. That part of her I did mimick. She showed me how to spend life stoned, high, and obese. I only mimicked the obese part. Mom played piano with great skill, and I tried to mimic that, but I didn't have the boogie woogie fingers.

slimgirljo15

If you want something don't sit on your *kitten*, go get it.
You're loved no matter what.
From my mum I learnt to be more forgiving, because she isnt, so Im doing my best to do better.
My dad.. I can thank him for my love of animals, he's a modern day dr doolittle lol.
And my wicked sense of humour

Motorsheen

Nuthin'!

packersfan0103

Work ethic, my father.

FabulousFantasticFifty

leut_underpants wrote: »

Two things from my dad. My pops is a bona fide nerd, like fights with Stephen Hawking type nerd. He installed the value of learning regardless of subject. It took awhile for that to take root in me, but it did. The other is that despite being a roughneck in the oil field and playing football in the leather helmet era, he was gentle. He never hurt my mom and rarely spanked us during a time when such was completely acceptable.

Listening to Mom granted me the ability to sort priorities, every among things that are good and needful. Not everything can be most important, every if it feels like it in a moment. She was always able to do that well. Also got me to fall in love with music.

They've been married 53 years. There's oodles of grand kids, almost all of whom are amazing and well adjusted.

They both succeeded despite challenging families of their own. Dad had an alcoholic father, mom had a brother with mental illness who committed suicide and was raised in a sand farm. All of you who talk of being who your family was not, you can. Doing it brings the later generations many blessings.

Thank You!

zcb94

Mom-how to stand up for myself and what’s right and ask for what I need/want
Dad-emotional strength, appreciation for the weird and unknown and how to use a bladder catheter (due to my disability)

hillaryflicka92

My momma taught me to turn the music up and dance when everything else gets a little too "loud".

My father has had a very successful career with lots of travel, overtime, stress .. but he always showed my sisters and I that nothing comes before family. Missing family celebrations to close a deal is never an option. He also taught me you're never too old to sit and cry on your dads knee.

My life has been beyond blessed.

ninerbuff

How to hug. That family comes first and you do everything you can not to ever give up on that. How to be organized. That it's okay not to be rich and still be able to do what you want.

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Timshel_

We grew up poor. Like, single wide in the middle of the desert with 7 of us there poor. I saw both of my parents struggle and have to work hard to give us the best life they could. I never once felt poor as a child, or at least didn't know any better. My Dad wasn't the most affectionate person, and ran the house in his military service fashion, but that fostered self-reliance, work ethic, and achievement. I understood how making a choice also meant I chose the good and bad consequences of that choice, and blame rested solely on me. My Dad tackled anything and everything, as necessity and no money often does, so I learned how to troubleshoot and fix just about everything. To this day I pride myself on that, and it saves me a ton of money in the long run.

What would be contrary to what they did, but what I learned I needed to do was to be more loving and affectionate for my kids. My parents, and maybe that harder generation, just didn't say I love you much and RARELY ever gave hugs or kisses. That isn't to say I felt unloved, but I have made the conscious effort to be more openly loving with my boys, and I am proud of that too.