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What is the best thing your parents did for you?

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jellyrolly · 01/01/2011 22:18

If you could say one positive thing you got from being parented by your own parents what would it be?

I think I can make anything - recipes, furniture, clothes - I'll have a go at anything. Doesn't always work but I thank them for somehow giving me that belief.

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arabella36 · 01/01/2011 22:21

(Weren't perfect.) But they gave me the impression that they really cared.

CarGirl · 01/01/2011 22:23

I'm really struggling.....

financially supported me to go to uni - topped up my part grant to what a full grant would have been

Amapoleon · 01/01/2011 22:26

Gave me self belief and confidence.

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GrizzlyMacDuff · 01/01/2011 22:32

gave me life. Whatever else they gave me, would not have been possible without being born!

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CrispyTheChristmasCracker · 02/01/2011 00:06

You don't need money to be happy and succeed

LadyCad · 02/01/2011 00:08

Unconditional love, heaps of it.

TheFallenMadonna · 02/01/2011 00:10

They adopted me. Well, my mum had me, but had to adopt me as well at the same time as my dad

And I have never felt less than 100% the child of both of them, even after they divorced (much later on).

And, what the thread is really about I suppose, they taught me to take a principled stand for and against things - that there is a bigger picture than my own concerns, that other people and their concerns matter too.

ascouser · 02/01/2011 00:13

that nobody gets tomorrow as a promise

oh an they bought me my first house

JoinTheDots · 02/01/2011 12:45

gave me unconditional love, endless time and patience, confidence in myself and high self esteem. I might have rose tinted glasses, but genuinely I think if I am half the parents they were, my DD will be just fine.

WhenPaperclipsAttack · 02/01/2011 18:20

They were there, and they still are. Not always in a physical sense - my Mum worked full or part time for all of my early years, and I live a couple of hours drive away now. But if I ever had a question or just wanted to talk something over or vent, they are there. When I wasn't sure about what subjects to do at A Level, I asked my Mum for advice and she said to foremost pick subjects I enjoyed and the rest would come later. When the upstairs flat was flooding through into my rented flat - I called them and sobbed down the phone until the emergency plumber came. When I caught the rat visiting my bird feeder in a trap and couldn't pluck up the courage to pick it up, I called my Dad and he talked me into it by teasing my for my cowardliness!

They're not perfect - no one is. But I love them, and always will.

singingcat · 02/01/2011 18:26

Paid for everything

ivykaty44 · 02/01/2011 18:28

brought me up as a person not a girl

self belief/assurance

Gay40 · 02/01/2011 18:34

Taught me these life lessons: I'm responsible for my own health, happiness, security and contentment. And that it's a waste of energy trying to keep other people happy, it never works. Make your own decisions and live with them. Don't change for anyone. Do the right thing, even when it is the hardest. Stand up for yourself and others when things aren't fair. Tell the truth. Row your own boat.
They aren't big on paying for owt, but I don't mind.
If I raise DD half as well, I'll be twice as happy.

expatinscotland · 02/01/2011 18:36

What Gay's parents did! Also they showed me, in their relationship, that love is respect so if you give it out and don't get it in return, you are wasting your time.

pozzled · 02/01/2011 18:39

Gave me a love of reading and a love of the natural world. Supported me to make my own choices. Showed me that they loved me.

mamasmissionimpossible · 02/01/2011 18:45

Spoilt me rotten :o

SaorAlba · 02/01/2011 18:46

My parents have absolutely always been there for me. I know that whatever I'm struggling with they'll help me out. Whether it was lending me £20 to tide me over at the end of the month when I was a bit younger, helping me clean up rented flats and move out, Christmas dinner, buying us a garden shed when we bought our house, or all the smaller things - being on the end of a phone line at any time of day or night.

I suppose that is not a 'thing' that they've given me. The thing would be self confidence. I know I can do anything.

BelleDameSansMerci · 02/01/2011 18:50

The certainty that I can get through troubling times. Not that either of them taught me this deliberately...

BornAgainBokononist · 02/01/2011 18:51

My mum has been brilliant since ds was born we're very close now, it's made me realise what a great mum she was when I was young.

I think the most important thing she's taught me is to speak for those that don't have a voice and stand up for what you believe in. And be generous.

orienteerer · 02/01/2011 18:54

Sounds a bit shallow compared with others but they allowed me to try riding (they had no previous knowledge of horses) then bought me a pony and drove me to endless lessons/shows etc.

IAmReallyFabNow · 02/01/2011 18:55

My mother gave me a nice name and nothing else.
My father gave me nothing at all.

Grumpla · 02/01/2011 19:01

Taught me to read and bought me a houseful of books.
Loved me and told me I was lovable even when I felt the whole world hated me.
Forgave me for all the terrible things I did without making me think it was okay to do them.
Told me that if I was ever stuck at a party / club / other side of town and the person driving was pissed, that they would rather I called them in the middle of the night to come get me than got in that car.
Taught me to do the right thing even when it was hard to do.

notcitrus · 02/01/2011 19:25

Ensured I had an education.

To start with, simply teaching me to read.
Then on discovering I wasn't allowed to go to the local schools, and refusing to accept the idea of their five-year-old being sent to boarding school for no reason, sacrificed a lot (all my dad's free time, certainly) so I could stay in private schools, after the local bookshop owner had wangled it for me to go to the nursery there.

It paid off when my dad got a big promotion abroad and I got to go to boarding school.

JiminyCricket · 02/01/2011 19:28

made me do things for myself and make my own mind up about what I did for a job.

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