What is the WORST ADVICE your PARENT ever GIVE to YOU? What is the BEST ADVICE THEY ever GIVE then?
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Of course nobody is perfect, including our parent. Still, I love my parent and respect them both! LoL!!
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Of course nobody is perfect, including our parent. Still, I love my parent and respect them both! LoL!!
Anyway, despite their good intention, sometimes they give you the worst one. Can you all give any example for this? To make it complete, what is the best advice they ever give to you?
PS: Will you give the same advice toward your own children? Both the worst one and the best one here?
Samantha
January 15th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Addison
The worst advice was: Let the baby cry. You will spoil it if you jump at it’s every little cry.
The best advice: Teach them self reliance, teach them the buck stops here and here starts responsibility.
January 17th, 2012 at 4:00 am
Alexa
The worst advice:Time out never works, if you give them too much candy they will get worms in their belly.
The best advice: breastfeeding on both sides, if you dont you become lopsided. Trust me their is a difference in size later lol
January 18th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Hailey
I love mommy and daddy too but I can remember some bad advice. In high school on picture day my mom told me to sport that look of braiding your hair then releasing the braids for a wavy look. Well my hair became a frizzy mess and ALL my friends laughed. Thank goodness for hairgel and elastic bands.
Otherwise my parents have always been right.. do some summer volunteer work, take up a second language. Two of many instances in which their good advice was key to my personal development.
Hope this helps!
January 19th, 2012 at 6:42 am
Brianna
I think the worst advice for a parent to give a child is do what you want to do
The best one will be if you make your bed hard remeber you have to lay in it
yes, i do give the same advice to my kids
January 21st, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Lillian
the worst advice they gave me was every single word they ever said to me.
the best words they have said, is Silence. There silence is the best advice they have ever given to me.
January 24th, 2012 at 7:08 am
Sarah
The best advice my mother gave me was to listen to my heart and not to let anyone make me do anything I don’t want.She always advises me to do what I think is right and even if I mak a mistake,it’s not a sin but just a mistake and I can correct it or learn from it.
They never gave me ‘the worst advice’.
January 26th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Emma
Best advice from my mother – “Spread your wings and not your legs” too true and funny.. Guess after 3 girls she thought it was important to mention.
Worst advice – ummm, her worst advice – has always been no advice. In her attempt to let me do what I wanted.
**Sings** regrets, Ive had a few.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Jeremiah
Fortunately I cannot answer “what is the worst advice your parents ever gave to you”!!!!!!!
Regarding “what is the best advise my parents ever gave to you”, that I can definitely answer.
My parents gave me advice by example. The way they lived their lives.
We were very poor, but they always brought home people less fortunate than we were. They would share whatever food we had. What ever my parents earned, (my father was stricken with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis when he was 30 years of age, so he always took jobs that were temporary and short hours) My mother was the main bread winner in the home. However they always managed to put away each week a dollar or two so that they could give charity to people who needed it.
When they did give the charity they would be creative and do it anonymously. So as not to shame the people on the receiving end.
My mother always said, “you should not be ashamed to take any job which is morally correct, even if you feel it is demeaning as long as you earned it honestly, even if you have to clean peoples homes, you should walk with your head high, and be proud”.
There was welfare from the government at that time (this goes back to the 1950′s) which was called “relief”. But my parents would not accept any government help, so they did not apply for it.
My parents sent me to a parochial school, and could not afford the tuition so they were charged only $5.00 a month. My mother felt a responsibilty to raise money for the school. So she did volunteer work to raise money by calling wealthy donors, which the school supplied her with lists of names, and phone numbers. She did that in the evenings at her leisure.
She always made time for her children, doing homework and giving them lots of love.
So this is how I got advice from my parents. BY EXAMPLE, the did not preach, they demonstrated all their values on how to live life. Honesty, integrity, warmth, Interestingly enough I never felt deprived, as my parents were thankful for whatever they had.
I in turn did the same with my children accordingly. I raised 7 children (all boys) who are upstanding citizens, wonderful fathers, husbands, and son’s. They are very good to me. I am alone now, and they always spend as much time with me as their schedule allows. How grateful I am for having had such parents, may they rest in peace.
Does this answer your question?
January 31st, 2012 at 9:42 am
Madison
Best: stop running your head against a wall, try the door
Worst: go to a no. 1 college where i could make my degree in 3 years – after one year of boarding school in 6th grade it was the worst six months of my life
January 31st, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Se