Value of Parents

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You mother carries you in her womb for nine months. Your father and mother are there every day at bedtime (ideally), and there when you wake up. Eighteen years (ideally) of your life is spend under the same roof as your mother and father. Humans in general are creatures of observation. The majority of what you learn comes from your parents as they are who you are with the majority of the day and night. When I was young, a teenager almost, I made a promise to myself to be there for my children if they ever needed me. At the time, I didn't know when I was going to have children or how many I was going to have. All I knew was that I wanted for my children something that I didn't have. My parents listening to me. My parents there for me whenever I had a question to ask, or a worry or fear. As it was, my parents were never home. I was left with relatives the majority of the time or left home alone. In my relatives, I saw what I wanted to see in my parents. Seemingly caring individuals who generally cared about how I was feeling and what I wanted to do. My relatives would explain things to me where I could understand them while my parents just brushed me off for one reason or another. In my parents, I learned what not to be. I learned from their mistakes. Their mistakes, and their successes made me into the woman I am today. A parent should be a child's first hero. Someone that the child looks up to and wants to emulate. Without parents to emulate, children tend to emulate all the others around them, whether good or bad. Those that don't have a good family life tend to be more aggressive toward others, or just complete social outcasts. In some cases, parents put the blame on others for how their child turns out to be, which in turn the child turns into blaming the world for the things he's done. One instance being the long debated video games. Parents
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