Personal Essay: The Impact Of Parenting

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“The impact of parenting on us is huge”, strongly correlates with the type of person we are as adults and how we can independently survive. A parent that invests in a strong building foundation such as education, values, confidence, self-worth etc. bring up a child that portrays those traits. Vise versa, a parent that shows a lack of effort, little to no time, no values etc. builds a weak foundation that eventually turns into the stepping stone to a weak mindset for the development of a child. I agree with the phrase “The impact of parenting on us is huge” because eventually we turn into our parents, so to speak.
Coming into the world the first person we set eyes on is our parents. They are the first set of role models in our lives. Mainly …show more content…

Growing up my mom and dad always showed us unconditional love. They shaped us to learn the right from the wrong and the importance of education. They related the troubles we experienced in America theirs in South America and how education primarily is the root to being successful in America. My dad would always say “we never had the opportunities you all have in America so don’t let it slip away”. Besides education, they taught us that money is easier spent then earned so to value a dollar. The upbringing in life that they had was very hard living and all the struggles they experience moving to a new country just to provide a better living environment for their kids. In their country beating your kids was known to put way word kids straight. My brother and I can contest to those beating but it made us into good kids. We didn’t give into the peer pressure of other kids in school and we learned to walk away from trouble instead of fighting. Don’t get me wrong, we weren’t angels but we stayed out of the ways of trouble. I commend my parents for the person I’ve become and the independence they instilled in my life today. I’ve used the knowledge to shape the person I want to be and some day the mother I want to be for my kids. My parents brought me up with the foundation of kindness, humbleness, and understand with a strong spiritual Christian background. Their parenting styles

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