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[quote=Anonymous]I'm very close with both my parents and feel they did an excellent job raising me. I speak to my mom at least 3-4 days a week (would be more but for our respective schedules) and email at least daily. She's my closest friend at this point in my life and has supported me through some very tough times.  My dad has always been my biggest cheerleader and we are very much alike. We're actually taking a father-daughter vacation together this summer, just the two of us.

What I remember most is both of them encouraging me and supporting me to pursue my interests, but not being afraid to let me fail and discover my strengths and weaknesses on my own. They never attempted to rescue me from my mistakes.

We spent a ton of time together as a family growing up. We had family dinners every night unless my parents were going on a date or one of us kids was invited to a friend's house for dinner.

My parents set limits and would likely be perceived as fairly strict, but they seemed to be very similar to my friends' parents, so I didn't know any different. We had curfews, they would never let us go to someone's house without speaking to the parents first to make sure they would be home (much to my chagrin as a late teenager), and our family came first. They also set high expectations for us and were able to effect parenting with very few punishments. The last punishment I remember having was as a 5 year old when I got sent to time out for saying something mean about the new baby as I was none-to-pleased with a new sibling.

It was always very clear in our family dynamic that they were in charge and we were the kids and our behavoir needed to conform to their expectations or they would not hesitate to have us leave and whatever caused the lapse in behavoir would be something we would not be doing again for a very long time. We were never spanked or otherwise phsyically disciplined.

I only hope that I come out of this parenting thing with kids who respect me and the way in which they were raised and appreciate all the sacrifces we have made for them, like I appreciate everything my parents did for me. [/quote]

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