How much of what you know today your Mother taught you?

I am very close to both of my parents and my mom and I were very close as I grew up. I know she is a HUGE influence on who I am now but in some ways her influence on me is me not wanting to be like her. That sounds terrible and I feel so bad saying it but it is true. My mom is a lovely person but she is loud, doesn't listen well and can't keep a secret to keep her life. So I've learned that I don't want to behave in those ways. On the other hand my mom is so caring, always there for other, funny, full of life and so much more. And those are the ways I want to be just like her.

I think that the person I am is made up almost completely of what my mother taught me. Most of my ideals, my way of dealing with problems, my dreams, and my dislikes in life are very similar if not identical to hers. Lest you think I am not my own person, let me assure you that I pattern my life after my mother because I admire her very much. Everyone patterns their life after other people and I think it is better to pattern it, as much as possible, after the best people you have ever known. You might be tempted to say, "Not me. I am strictly me. I make my own decisions." That can be very true, but the way you got the ability to make your own decisions is based on those you patterned your life after, either consciously or unconsciously.

With my Mother is more of the time she took with me. I was able to read alot from the library, which my daughter is now doing. I breezed through school and that taught me some things too. My parents were not big minds, they are wonderful straightforward and regular people. I have learned so much more with that basis while living as an adult. Have continued to read and watch others and learn. Viewed things about how to and news type and who dun it movies. Big learning has been from books and now also the internet. I can only hope that they 12 years I stayed home as a stay at home mom has been good for my kids. Will see how they ultimately turn out.

Without a doubt I wouldn't be the person I am today without the input of my 'adopted' mother! I'm a mum to a 17 year old daughter and I know I'm nothing like what my mum was like! My mum was very old school she stayed at home all the time we were growing up and was quite strict. I've worked all my daughters life and tried to give her independance to make her a little stronger so she can have her own mind and learn from her own mistakes, sure I'm here if she wants advice for anything - something I couldn't do with my mum!

Everyday I am surprised by how much my mother taught me. There have been times when people have asked my advice about something and out comes the exact words my mother used to say to me. It's amazing how some things will just seem to stick. This seems especially true when it comes to caring for others. I can cook thanks to my bother showing me what she did in the kitchen. And whenever someone gets ill, all the mothers methods and remedies come to mind. In face, there are many times when I am amazed by how much I sound like her. I would be honored to become a mother who is just as nurturing as my mother was and continues to be even today. I would love to be able to pass down the things she has taught me to another generation.

I am very much like my mother, I realize it even more now that I am a mother myself. I was raised on the west coast, but have a midwestern accent like my mother, because she taught me how to talk-that's a simple one. But I find myself doing the same things as a mother, she was called a "hippy" back then, now you would call it attachment parenting (fancy word used on the internet). I use gentle discipline, I have a family bed, use the same products, cook-everything that I observed my mother doing for us. I was explaining that to my in law today, when she asked when I was going to spank my son. I told her "I don't know how and when I would use that", seems like a stupid response but if you think about it, that never happened to me so I don't know why I would do it myself.

I'm not much of a mother taught guy.I learnt alota stuff by myself.I guess i'm a self made man.I learn everyday and i consider learning to be an ongoing process in every person's lives.I learn the good values that i come across and also things that amuse me and things that i can relate to myself.

I was really lucky to learn so much from my Mum and my Grandmother too. My Gran was a cook and she taught me a lot. Mum taught me how to look after myself, how to make a place for myself in the world, how to think for myself too.

My Mom is taht person, who taught me to live. Now this "live" is a small word. But to explain this word, you need to use so many words, that you get to know how bif is the entire concept. But my mother, presented this extremely, difficult, yet easy, complex, yet simple concept to me throughout all my growing up years, in a ease. That's how my mother taught me. I know to think, write, and speak, I know the basics and the ultimates of our etiquettes, culture, and tradition. I know to face my conscience. I know to sort between the good and bad. I know all these, and at the same time, I know that, it is my Mother, who made me know these. She is my ultimate teacher. And, now she has made me ready to face life, to be a good wife, and mother. I know that if I suceed to instill these teachings thoroughly in my child's mind, then one day will come, when my child will also say the same, which I said today for my mother.

i know all most every thing that my mom tought me.