Testimonies: What I learned not to do from my parents 47 Articles

by Laurie Feldman

I was a defiant and self-destructive teenager. My tour on the road less traveled was a bumpy one that ended when I became a college drop out and a teen mother. As I began to get myself together, I spent several years suffe...read more

by Paula Hodges

I am now 53 years old. Perhaps that is too old to think of myself as a child, but surprisingly enough, we are always going to be the children of our parents. I thought my parents hung the moon. They were my role models ...read more

by Christine G.

20/20 HINDSIGHT: TEN LIFE LESSONS FROM PARENTS AND PARENT-SUBSTITUTES In theory, we all prefer to learn from other people's mistakes rather than our own. In practice, we do things the hard way. When we suffer as the ...read more

by Cheryl Loux

I don't know where my parents learned their parenting skills. I guess they learned things from a different time and a different place. But times have changed and they remain the same. It's just who they are. Now it i...read more

by Yvette Durham

I almost feel a little disloyal towards my parents in writing this article. After all I did have a largely idyllic childhood and my bond with my mum and dad is stronger now then ever. But no one is perfect, including the...read more

by C Davison

Everything I learned about parenting came from my parents. It sounds funny to say that, but it's true. My mother taught me so much in my younger years. I owe her everything. She taught me that love is important to a...read more

by Carol Gioia

Parents exert monumental influence over their children's lives. Their virtues, vices, and sins of omission, are observed and filed away in the observant child's mind. These character traits and flaws will be retrieved at...read more

by Kimberly Bunch

Being a good parent is the toughest job in the world. Alcoholism has run amuck in my family, ruining lives and shattering hopes and dreams. As a child it was difficult to understand what was going on when I would hear ...read more

by Vicki Phipps

My parents were the best parents they could possibly be, considering my mom was sixteen and my dad was twenty when they had me. Like I try to do, they did the best they could at the time and with what they knew. They tau...read more

by Dame Leo

There were many lessons learned from my parent's mistakes. A few examples were, do not smoke and if you must, do not do it around young children. (I was left with asthma from second hand smoke.) Another was; always listen ...read more

by Amie Wharton

If I think about it hard enough I could probably produce pages and pages of things that I learned no to do from my parents. Actually, I probably wouldn't even really have to think that hard. I hope my son never feels that ...read more

by Golf Nut

The bond between parents and children can be extremely valuable in helping the child to develop qualities and attributes that will serve them well in later life. Parents exercise the greatest amount of positive peer-pressu...read more

by Catherine Leigh

I had a truly wonderful childhood. It feels a little strange to write what may sound like a complaint about the way I was raised. In the great scheme of things, I had it just about a good as it gets. Yet we all have exp...read more

by Luningning Sugbu

I was mommy's girl when I was growing up. I can't bear to be away from her and would have crying episodes on lonely afternoons when she was away from home. My father's preference for my sister made matters worse and I was ...read more

by Emma Willey

What I Learned Not to Do from My Parents "Why can't you learn to make pancakes like my mother did?" As a small child, I often heard remarks like this from Papa to Mama. When she didn't do things to suit him, he treated...read more

by R.L Hanlon

I could write a book on the amount of things I have learned from my parents as to how not to parent. I probably will one day as many people tell me I should do so. My mother did the best she could raising us, working tir...read more

by Shawna Blake

Marrying young just isn't the greatest idea in the world for some people. My parents were married with three young children by the age of twenty four. So, it is not surprising that they were separated before they hit their...read more

by Madison Briggs

Your children do not come with instruction books is what I have always been told. There are plenty of books about raising children or being good parents on the market, but your particular child and your particular parents ...read more

by Valtie

HOW TO BE THE MOM YOU NEVER HAD The moment I saw the positive sign on my home-pregnancy test, I realized it was the first of many tests I would face as a mother. Reflections of my own childhood experiences initi...read more

by Violet Fortune

Last night I dreamed that my Dad was still alive, and that he resembled Santa Claus. In reality, he passed on many years ago, and he never did resemble the "jolly old elf". In this dream however, he had softened up quite a...read more