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What do you think is the most valuable lesson you learn from your parents? Or just the one that first comes to mind?

Preferably a positive lesson. I just want a positive question about parents to even things out here.

From my mom: There's more to life than being a productive member of society or just fitting in with the cultural norms in general, and having a different life than others doesnt make you less of a person.

From my dad: To focus on myself, and that negative feelings are not the same thing as negative thoughts.

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I think my parents are both extreme opposites so I learned that a balance of their characters make for a pretty well-rounded personality. Patience and tolerance from my mother. Independence and strength from my father.

mic11225 · 26-30, M

same here actually. My mom was pretty permissive when it came to raising us and my dad was very authoritarian and even as a kid I kind of got a hint of what the pros were and more importantly the flaws were of those parenting styles, although when i looked back on it when i was older understood it more. I didnt really have terms for it at the time, but i ended up figuring out that it was a thing psychologists had already studied when i took a child psychology class.

SW-User

@mic11225: yeah our experiences and lessons we got from them are eerily similar. I think most importantly growing up in a household like that made me resilient.