"Make your parents proud"

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I agree. I never liked that saying.

I disagree. To me it's important to make my family proud.

I am neutral. I like if my parents are proud of me but I'm also fine if they don't.

I am a parent and I want my kids to make me proud.

I'm a parent and I agree. What I want or think doesn't matter it's my children's choice.

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I never understood or supported this mindset.
Why would my life be all about making other people feel proud? If my parents had me only to be a trophy of how sucessful they are, they had me for the wrong reasons. I live for me. And the only person I care to make proud of me, is me.

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SW-User

Are you happy with where you are in life?

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@SW-User Considering the spoon I was fed in life. Yes.

SW-User

@Queendragonfly Did your parents feed you that spoon?

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@SW-User My dad did.

SW-User

@Queendragonfly Sorry to hear that. My mom's father also dealt her a bad deal, he was a very abusive alcoholic. But she never passed that onto me. She was and still is a good, caring, and supportive mother. I never met my father, my grandfather was the closest thing to a father I had.

Good parents should support and nurture their children's growth, not try to abuse them, destroy them, or control their future. That seems to be very hard to find these days though, many people just pass on abuse from generation to generation.

I am a single father, but I try to support my son and nurture his interests any way that I can.

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@SW-User Thank you. I'm sorry you never met your father. But I'm glad your grandfather was there for you and gave you a good example of a father figure to pass on to your child.