Free Essays,College Free Essays,Free College Essays at Anti Essays

As a child I floated freely through my life with no worries or concerns about what was occurring in the real world that surrounded me. I was a very sheltered child who had everything handed to her, and I thought that every other child in this world had the same life as I did. My father was a very hardworking and successful lawyer who spent many hard years earlier in his life working through college and eventually Law School . His parents never just handed anything to him, they believed that you need to work and sweat hard for what you want in life, which eventually shaped him into a levelheaded, devoted man. On the other hand, my mother was brought up believing that once married, a woman should never have to provide for herself and that being a stay at home mother and wife was the best any woman could accomplish for herself. Since she had these views, she never went to college and received a degree, which back in the 1970’s was not as big of a deal as it is today. That is exactly what happened when my parents married. My father went to work every morning at seven am and came home at six pm every night and my mother stayed at home as an at home wife, and eventually “upgraded” to a stay at home mom when my brother and myself were born.

My mother greatly enjoyed staying at home mother, she never had to work or worry about paying bills. All she had to do was raise her children, which I am not saying was an easy job. So, we all grew up living a very sheltered life, waking up in the morning and have fresh squeezed orange juice and hot pancakes waiting for us on the kitchen table. I would always play with the same kids that I was raised around as a child; my mother never let me out of her site, or let me meet new kids to play with. Everything I did in my childhood had to have her signature of approval written on it. If I went to a birthday party, she had to be there monitoring every thing I did. Once I started school, my mother would drop me...