Testimonies: Why I am so grateful for my parents 17 Articles

by Elizabeth Rogers

"As time goes on, I realize, how much they mean to me," is the way the old song sort of goes. It is certainly true of the way I view my parents and the love and respect they have given me as a person for as long as I can r...read more

by Charleine Fenn

The gratitude I have for my parents is immeasurable. I was brought up in a home with old fashioned values. I was taught respect from a very early age. My mom was a stay at home mother. My parents never failed to tell me.....read more

by Ayesha Long

Gratitude is very much like beauty - it grows over time. As a child, I resented my parents with their overly high expectations and their demand for me to be better than the rest. I hated how they would flaunt all of ...read more

by Christian Rios

I can list plenty of reasons as to why I am so grateful for my parents, beginning with the fact that they are indeed my best friends. Both my mother and my father are always there for me, through thick and thin; no matter ...read more

by Belinda Beasley

My parents weren't perfect parents, and I did not have a Beaver Cleaver type childhood. And yet, I am very grateful to my parents because, in spite of some mistakes that they may have made in parenting me, I never doubted...read more

by Marie Upmann

I grabbed onto this article thinking how easy it would be to put down into words just what my parents do mean to me. I sit here now and my heart and my mind are going a million miles a minute and yet words escape me. My ...read more

by Kathy Thornton

I would be lost without my mom and dad. They are the best parents in the world. I am truly blessed. I am grateful that I have a dad who is always there for me. No matter what I done he was always there holding my hand and ...read more

by Dominic Scaglietti

I can't honestly say that the two old-fashioned, religious zealots that I call my parents were what most would see as having been model parents. In fact, I would probably say that parenting is really something better left ...read more

by Brialynn Payton

1968....their 6th child was born....their previous baby miscarried. Had that baby lived I may not even be here, who knows. But it was obviously one of those "everything happens for a reason" moments. I was born with mult...read more

by Bill Whitney

I probably had the best set of parents that a boy could ever have. My parents did everything they could for my brother and I and I can only hope that I have been half as good a parent to my three kids as my parents were ...read more

by Ron N.

My Wonderful Parents For the last few decades I have heard through conversation how awful some childhoods were because of parents. Most of the horrible stories told I did not have an understanding of how they truly fel...read more

by Jennifer Whitaker

"Why am I so grateful for you?" you ask, Because you made a difference in my life. As a unstable kid with problems every left and right, All I had going good, was the love of a father that later brought in to my li...read more

by Anna Malison

Growing up in a family of nine was normal to me... until we'd all troop into the grocery store, or file in to a restaurant in a never ending line. Then I thought it was embarrassing. My mom asked me once, "what are we supp...read more

by Shez Jay

Me being the youngest of the family,I've always been the 5year old to them but as I grew up they've learned to give me some space to grow.To help me learn to do thing on my own.My mother and father has been a great inspira...read more

by Christina Verdugo

Twenty two years have gone past that I haven't forgotten to thank my parents for all that they've done. There's so much gratitude that I have for them that I can't even find the words to explain. Both of my parents have c...read more

by Ann Chia

By being here, I am already grateful to my mum, and although the title says 'parents', I really only have my mum to thank for. You see, I am an adopted child, and my foster mum, is unmarried. So, technically, I am an adopt...read more

by Tesia Wildroudt

I am so grateful for my parents because they were the type of parents that didn't let me do whatever I wanted, at the time I thought it was because they didn't want me to have a life. But now that I have grown up and beca...read more