What is the best advice your parents ever gave you?

United States
March 31, 2007 7:28pm CST
My Dad once said "Make your choices and don't look back. Don't be afraid of what anyone else thinks. It's your' life and you only get one." What about your' parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles? What is the best advice you have ever recieved?
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@parmanu (784)
• India
2 Apr 07
Parents always protect child from doing wrong things. They remain aware of there children. Children must go in right direction. Parents check their children when they see that the children are going astray. They are quite experienced to find it out. The children are fully under their watchful eyes. Unless they keep their children on the right path in their impressionable years the influence of teachers and friends later would be of no use. Once a child has acquired bad habits it is difficult to change them. Therefore the person who lays the foundation of good habits naturally influences the child more. This important spade work is done by the parents. Therefore it is clear that they influence the child more. When a calamity falls on children their friends leave them. The teachers remain unconcerned. But the parents come to their rescue and take them out of their trouble. In such situations the influence is the maximum. And who exerts this influence? The parents much more than teachers and friends. Parents to the child are like soil to the plant. If there is no soil the plant cannot exist, and it is the nature of the soil that determines the quality of the plant. Similarly, the character of the child is determined by the nature of his parents. A barren soil shall have no plantation; similarly illiterate parents have generally greater difficulty in. bringing up their children properly. The role of the parents is even otherwise also very significant. Parents can be teachers and friends all combined in one, whereas a teacher or friend cannot and will never take the place of a mother. Therefore, it is not only that parents play the most important role, but also that they are capable of all sorts of varying relationships in addition to the relationship of blood. They can actually play a dual role. He is more than right when he says that the children of illiterate parents are more often than not ignorant and backward; and that it is only the teacher who brings them to a higher level. The children are generally not born with any intellectual capacity or any great understanding of good or bad; but the teacher trains them like a horse. The child has the brain but just as the colt is capable of doing nothing unless the trainer breaks him in; similarly; unless the teacher trains him up; the child's intellectual capacity remains underdeveloped.
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• United States
3 Apr 07
While the Author of whatever book that you copied this from is essentially right, the question is; "What is the best advice that your parents gave YOU?"
@lornalhai (148)
• China
2 Apr 07
My dad advised that you should go to college. Now,i think he help me to make an important decision.
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• United States
3 Apr 07
Education IS important. I'm glad that you listened to him. Too many kids drop out of high school or finish high school and blow off college. Not too much money to be made without an education. There are always the exceptions, of course, but not many. Your' Dad gave you good advice.
• China
1 Apr 07
When I was young,my mother always said"To be an honest man!"At first, I was not aware of the importance of that word and not care of that.Then sometimes I told a lie to them if I made a mistake on my nursery school.when I broke the window,I was in fear of this issue.Thus I didnot tell the truth to my parents.At last,my teather called them and told them what happened.I was sorry for that I am not an honest man and I let my parents down as well.Last but not least,I also knew that if you don't wish anyone to know what you've done,it is better not to have done it in the first place.To be an honest man,this is the best advice I have ever recieved from my parents.
• United States
2 Apr 07
More parents should teach that lesson to their children! There are very few people that I can say are honest and it's real shame. You must love your parents very much to have felt badly for letting them down. They taught you well!