Parents

[GSLeloo]

Does anyone ever just suddenly notice something new about your parents that gives you an even greater respect for them? Like today my dad just like.. he showed he had so much integrity and was such a good person that it just really made me respect him and feel good about looking up to him.

[Myrianna]

Unfortunately, that rarely happens with my parents. But my mother went back to school to get a job teaching that she loves, rather than a job that paid better that she hated. I'm proud of her for learning that happiness is more important than money.

I remember the time i broke my dads Jaw. ahhh memories.

[Skirmisher]

heh....nice variety our little board has here no?

[GSLeloo]

Mine was this... my dad paints houses and he knows this guy who fixes roofs, Mike. So Mike obviously does our roofs and whenever my dad has a customer that needs a roof to be fixed he will recommend Mike. So because of that, Mike gets a lot of work from my dad so today when Mike came to fix the roof over the bathroom I heard my dad telling my aunt to make sure she gives Mike money, otherwise he'd try to leave without making us pay. And to hear my dad making sure the guy got paid, I don't know but it just really made me respect him.

[Souzy]

You'll respect your parents more when you have children of your own. Because then you'll realize all the bullshit you put them through.

[Jack]

My step mother can drink an entire fifth of scotch every day of the week, and still manage to live. I guess in some ways that is impressive......

[GSLeloo]

Oh and it also helps that I came home and found out my parents bought me a car while I was at work... but still, he's a really honest, decent guy and I can only hope more guys are out there that are like him.

[Souzy]

Originally posted by GSLeloo
Oh and it also helps that I came home and found out my parents bought me a car while I was at work... but still, he's a really honest, decent guy and I can only hope more guys are out there that are like him.

I've met your dad, LOL. He's actually an awesome guy. Nice baby girl is driving now. Everybody move out of the way when you see her driving!!!! j/k

[Myrianna]

Originally posted by GSLeloo
Oh and it also helps that I came home and found out my parents bought me a car while I was at work... but still, he's a really honest, decent guy and I can only hope more guys are out there that are like him.

Damn you... Just ... Damn you... (Do your parents want more kids?)

[StrayRogue]

In some ways yes. However I am of the opinion I do not automatically respect/agree my parents of any family simply because they are family or "share the same blood". Respect has to be earned and blood often is just as thick as water.

[GSLeloo]

lol I have to pay 700 for it but that's it. The car was 9700 and my parents and grandma paid for the rest. It's um... 99 Honda Civic? I haven't seen it but that's what I was told... moonroof and it has a CD player. That's about all I know.

[Skirmisher]

Hmmf.....my parents never bought me a car. :flamed: I demand a recount!

Sounds like a real sweetie. Congrats on the car!

[HarmNone]

Congrats on the new car, Leloo! :D

HarmNone figures you will have some fun with that!

[GSLeloo]

Oh he really is so sweet. He calls me Babsie and he'd do anything for me, so I feel bad when I'm mean to him sometimes. I just don't think you really understand how lucky you are until something points it out for you.

[Souzy]

Well now everytime you feel like spazzing out on your parents, you can look outside your window, see your car, look at your parents, run over to them and kiss their feet, heh. Some kids don't appreciate what their parents do for them. Good to see that your not one of them.

Originally posted by Lalana
You'll respect your parents more when you have children of your own. Because then you'll realize all the bullshit you put them through.


No..no i don't think i will.

[GSLeloo]

A lot of times I realize how much I owe them, how much they sacrificed for me. That's why I want to get some kind of high paying job so that when they're too old to work anymore I can support them and allow them to just retire and have no worries. I don't want them to work until they die....

[Souzy]

Well see it all depends what you went through. Not saying everyone, but most. Then again, I moved out of my house since I was 16 years old. So we're prolly in the same boat RangerD. I respect my parents because they are my parents. Being asian your taught to respect anyone older than you.

[Drew2]

I respect very few people in this world. My mother is one of them, but just barely. She made a lot of bad choices that led to me having a shitty childhood, but I can't completely blame her. She's tried to make up for it though, and anyone that puts up with me deserves a little respect just for that. :P

[GSLeloo]

Oh god my mother... no matter how much she annoys me I love her to death. She does everything for me, she puts me before everything (except her new car). My mom works nights (11PM to 7AM) as a nurse's aid at a place for mentally retarded children just to earn money and get us health insurance. And she chose night shift so that she could be with us during the day so that we were never alone. I have infinite respect for all the shit she's gone through for us.

[Miss X]

My mum is by far the best person Ive ever met. When my dad left she had a breakdown and attempted suicide five times, after a lot of help she sorted herself out, went back to university and got a degree and got a good job to make sure me and my sister had the best of everything. There is no one I will ever love and respect more than my mother, shes so strong and she always knows how to sort my shit out.
yay mum!

[GSLeloo]

I thought of another thing for my mom... she once told me that when her mom was dying all she could think was take her instead, because her mom would be a better mom to us then she could ever be. And it touched me because like.. no one could be a better mom to me than mine and for her to say she wanted to die just so my grandma could raise us, that really was a big thing.

[Betheny]

When I was a kid, my dad used to send me to a ranch camp for summers.

It was only after he died, that my mother told me he worked two extra part time jobs to send me. I never knew.

Sometimes we just don't realize things until we're all grown up and those things are gone.

[GSLeloo]

It's things like that that mean so much, Maimara. And you never even know they do it until someone happens to tell you and it just touches you so much.