Week 1 - Great Parenting

     Based on your own experience, post a short response (3-6 sentences) describing one specific behavior that your mother or father did that you think was truly great parenting, something that made you a better person and/or that you would like to repeat with your own children. Alternatively, your own parents may have been less-than-perfect. Based on your experience, is there one thing that you would change when parenting your own children?

     My household was one that appeared to be full of turmoil. Dad was always working as was mom. The difference between the two is that mom was there for me and supported the things I wanted to do. There were always restrictions, i.e. finishing my homework or weeding the yard an additional time during the week. This placed the responsibility of receiving my "reward" on me to get or get to do the things I wanted to.  My father, not to sound like the cliche', was always working and was rarely ever around to talk to.  He was a strict disciplinarian and always said that he wanted me to do better than I was already doing.

     The things I learned from my mother I will cherish and take with me and carry on in my daughter.  I will show her the love and understanding that my mom showed.  Not to lessen the role my father played, I also learned what I do not want to happen in my relationship with my daughter.  I will be the kind of father who is around as much as possible.  When I can't be I'll make sure to devote my time to her when I get home.  I want to instill the sense of right and wrong that both my parents instilled in me and a strong sense of morals, which I gained from my mother.

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