Grade How Your Parents/Guardians Did

[GMan42]

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I've thought about this a lot.

In terms of raising a decent, moral human A

In terms of raising a well socialized person C

My folks weren't big on direct instruction, so I picked up a lot through observation and osmosis.

Neither of them are joiners, and I think they allowed me to be antisocial to my extreme detriment. I wish they'd forced me into more activities that would have kept me active, expanded my social cricle, and just helped me be better and being around the other humans.

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Obviously we had the same parents. Funny, I didn't notice you around the house growing up. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[HUD-BOT]

D-.

I always loved my mom until I got a daughter of my own and realize how little it feels that she ever did with me. Without a child I'd never think about it or care at all. Now I come close to despising her.

[Case Closed]

My paternal father is an absolute failure. He left me before I was even born. I spent a couple hours with him this summed and it was underwhelming to say the least. Anytime I have asked for him to play the father role he has failed me.

My mom on the other has has worked herself to the bone to put me in a position to be a successful human being. She was single with 3 kids in a [censored] hole on welfare in south LA worked her way up. She has a great job and can take care of her family without the assistance of anyone. She is a wonderful role model and I owe everything to her.

[HUD-BOT]

oh, i forgot i had a father...havent seen him since I was 10 and he was gone on Navy trips all the time.

[Jay.]

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He is also very cynical as most middle class brits are and so i'm glad to have inherited that from him.

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Why would you be glad you inherited this?

For me, that is what sucks so much about the older generation in England.

[punkass]

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punk, I don't think you're giving your parents nearly enough credit. A B- after moving to a new country and starting over and making it work? Jesus, you're a tough crowd.

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I give my parents a whole lot of credit for being providers and working their asses off. But I never really saw my parents. They left for work after I left for school, and they didn't come home from work until 11pm or 9pm. My sister did the bulk of raising me, which kinda stripped her of her youth, not to mention we don't have a typical brother/sister relationship because of it.

The emotional consequences are what makes my grade low.

[Jiggymike]

My parents get a solid A+. They are just really great people who committed themselves to raising my brother and I properly. My mom used to have some emotional (read: anger) problems when I was younger but she wasn't abusive, just argumentative with both my father and me. However, she is on meds for it now, so it was a chemical imbalance that I can't blame her for and it honestly wasn't nearly as bad as plenty of people who DON'T have a medical condition.

For both providing and parenting, they both get an A+. I consider my brother and I to be very lucky people.

[thedustbustr]

cmon people grades are normally distributed with a generous mean of B. Every parent that did an acceptable job shouldn't get the A.

[DrewDevil]

Yeah, this is like Harvard.

[LargeCents]

C