What our Parents Taught Us

We may not realise it at the time but our Parents teach us a lot. Our Parents teach us things we may not glean from School. Some of what we learn may come into use later in our lives while most will not. However, it can be better to know more than you need to in case you do need it later in life. Although, most of the stuff our Parents teach us we just really want to forget right away. Most of what our Parents teach us is inadvertent and not what they want us to know.  Now I just want to say that what I am about to talk about DOES NOT all come from my Parents. A few of them maybe but I am not writing this about my Parents but about all Parents in general. Sorry in advance if I offend anyone.

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The first thing that your Parents will teach you is that their word is law. Heaven forbid you ever break their laws. They brought you into this world and sure as hell can take you out of it. Later in life you realise that your Parents were wrong about many things and that not following their orders may have been the better option in some cases. However, when you are young you do not think about these things and think that all adults are always correct. Oh, to be a child... We also learn from an early age to always strive to "do your best". For some parents this can be as simple as just trying your best but for others trying your best means having to be at the top of the class. Second-best is not good enough for some Parents and I feel sorry for their children. How must they cope sometimes? Our Parents also taught us that we can be whatever we want. Well, except for a few jobs but we will not go there. Sometimes I think our Parents are setting us up to be rich so they can retire in comfort. That is actually a pretty good plan, must remember it in the future. So the lesson we can learn here from our Parents is have kids and retire happy, among other things of course.

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Among other things our Parents also seem like very big religious advisers. Always going on about praying about one thing or another. Whether it be a stain coming out of the rug or a mark off the wall. Always we are reminded to pray or may "God help us". Religion must really be essential in raising families. Logic is also a big issue in our World and our Parents show us from an early age what logic is correct logic. We must always remember to do something because someone said so. That is all the logic we will ever need in our lives. We are also taught to empathise and be able to read someone's feelings. If we are not able to read feelings we may get on the nerves of certain people at certain times of the month. The ability to read feelings is always important when growing up as it allows us to know which rooms are safe to enter and which to avoid like the plague.

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A major source of our Vocabulary is our Parents. Without our fathers we would not know what to say when we drop something on our toes. Where would we be if our mothers had not taught us what to say when we burn something? Then there are the words we say when we get a fright. Where would we be if our Parents had not taught us them? Persuasive Techniques are also learnt through our Parents so we already have a head start for English before we even reach High School. We learn especially about exaggeration and appeals to emotions as children as our Parents make us feel guilty about choosing something or whether they exaggerate how many times they have told us things. They are also experts at personifying and thank the heavens inanimate objects can not bite or I would be covered in marks for every time I forgot where something was. Put simply, our Parents teach us many things and for this we are eternally grateful.

May the odds be ever in your favour, see you tomorrow!

Regrets

We will all face regrets throughout our lifetime. To have experienced only one regret is to be lucky, most experience a lot more. I am only 16 and I already have a few regrets. Some of these regrets are choices that, if made the other way, would not actually be beneficial and this is true in many cases. Regrets can eat away at us and leave us questioning. Regrets can ruin a person and are very hard to get over. Basically, regrets are not good.

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Regrets can linger for many years and can make us question our every move. Even if we had taken the other choice our life may not have turned out for the better. Sometimes people say they regret not seeing their grandparents pass away when they could have been with them at the end. I myself have been in this position and have decided to stay home simply because my grandfather, though dying, was already gone. He barely recognised any of us and was asleep most of the time. When he was awake he was too much in a haze to even acknowledge we were there at times. So I made the decision not to be there in his final moments and sometimes I regret this decision but know that if I had of gone in there I would have been scarred because he did not die in a pretty way. After 2 years fighting with Cancer it was a relief to see him finally at rest because it meant he was no longer in pain and those last few hours were, as I was told, dreadful and it was one of the worse ways he could have gone. So although some people regret the decisions they make sometimes we need to realise that choosing something else may not have been better. I did not want to remember my Grandfather for what he was towards the end and so some days I regret not being there for the last moments (I did visit him in hospital while he was a little more 'him') but others I am glad I was not there so I did not have tainted memories of him.

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Death is a major source of regret. Many people have regrets that are in some way linked to death. Some people regret having an argument with someone that meant you no longer spoke to them. People regret this as it goes on for years without contact and then other person dies and you worry they still think you hate them. People regret not biting the bullet and just apologising because when a person dies they have no chance to do it anymore. Some people also have regrets in the form of "What if... ?" which can leave a person second guessing themselves for years to come. If you continue asking yourself "What if... ?" you are never going to move on with your life and will always be stuck on that one point of time that can no longer be changed. So sometimes we need to stop asking the "What if" and begin to move on with our lives or we will die wondering. Regrets are horrible things yet a world without them would be hard to live in. Regrets define us and without them we would lose ourselves.

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May the odds be ever in your favour, see you tomorrow.

Mothers

Mothers are very important to us and they brought us to life (and at times threaten to take us out of it [joking]). Mothers are there for us and always try to do what they see as being the best for us. Mothers know their children and always see them as their young ones (even when they've grown up and it gets weird). Mothers are very caring and protecting and we would be lost without them.

Mothers are there for us when we need them and always try to do what they see as being the best for us even when we may be reluctant to accept their input. Mothers can sometimes be overbearing but this is only because they want what is best for us. When we're in trouble or when we're feeling down the person we can generally count on is our mothers. Through their maternal instincts we have grown into who we are today. Our mothers also try to push us in the direction they see as right. Sometimes they can push too hard and sometimes we fall off this path they have set out for us and we forget who is really there for us, our parents. Our mothers know what is best for us and always try to help us in fulfilling their dreams for us.

Our mothers know us and can always pick us out of a crowd. They have a maternal instinct for their children and are very protective of us. Sometimes our mothers can be overbearing but this is only because they care (even though this can be hard to understand at times). All through our lives our mothers care for us and when we leave they still feel protective of us. This protection of us can be annoying when we get older (not to mention embarrassing) and can sometimes make us feel younger than we are. Our mothers can also stop us from doing things we really want to do because they see the danger and sometimes this can really ruin our moods but in the end we come back to our mothers who welcome us back with open arms. Mothers are very caring and have a very protective maternal instinct which can be annoying at times but we must always remember that they love us and we love them. Happy Mothers Day!

May the odds be ever in your favour, see you tomorrow!