my daughter

you've won the battle already, you've seen your mistakes and are about to do something about them, congrats.

i didn't realise how much of a pain and how horrible i was to my mum until i had my kids,i always thought it was her being unfair and mean,it's true what parents say ' you'll understand when you have your own kids '

Isnt this just the pains of growing up and finding your own feet and testing the water? My daughters went through a couple, or was it just one year that seemed like ages, years where you can say you love them but dont like them. My daughter has now given us a wonderful Grand daughter and you should hear my daughter now. She has apologised for the awful behaviour and said her daughter isnt going to be like it. We shall see!! They do say though that most girls by the age of 22 years old have apologised to their parents for being such a terror at sometime in their life. You know what? It is exactly that age that both of mine did. Oh and they have grown into to beautiful woman that anyone would be proud of - I am anyway.

I have been a good daughter for some years and bad for some years. Now that I have started looking after a family and think about the difficulties i used to give her, I feel bad. I wonder how my children would behave with me...That type of bad behaviour - i wont be able to stand it. Sometimes I ring her up and sya that I realise how much pain I was to her sometimes and she just keeps mum!!!

I don't think that any daughter fully realizes what a pain she was to her parents before she becomes a mother of a daughter herself. I know that when I was a young woman before my daughter was born I too was very full of myself. I still loved my mother, but I didn't listen to the things that she told me that really were the things that I needed to hear. The advice about being successful that she was sharing with me and the lessons that she'd learned the hard ways that she didn't want me to have to learn the hard way. Now that I've got a daughter of my own that is rapidly growing into becoming a young woman, I really do see how important those lessons were for me to have learned.

it is a good thing wht u decided to do..even i have been behaving very badly to my parents and have been horribly rude and ignorant several times..i didnt realize the pain untill someone did the same thing to me..whn some one who luvs u does this to u if it pains this much i shudder to think how much pain i hav caused 4 my parents.but am glad that i knew the pain bcoz now i know how they feel and i wouldnt want them to feel like tht ever again in their life becoz i luv them more than myself

claylewisthirdy hi well there is an old saying, at sixteen and twenty you think your parents are really sort of stupid but come back at 25 and you find out they really are pretty darned smart.

Sometimes we don't really understand the purpose of our parents. Why they are so strict to us and why they are doin this and that. It's because we don't really feel what they feel. They were so strict its because they want us to have a brighter future. But sometimes our parents should also know their limits. Yes they are our parents but they should not dictate us. In my case I laways follow my parents if I know that their advice could really help me to be mature.