Emotions

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Comparing Differences and Similarities
During Childhood and Adulthood Toward My Parents
In the stages from childhood to adulthood, I’ve experienced many different feelings toward my parents as the years went by. Experiences in life had many influences on my attitude toward my parents and one can never really step back and notice until the years have passed.
There are three main attitudes that I experienced, positive, negative, and neutral attitudes.
In the negative attitude it took place during my childhood years. I was somewhat of a rebellious child. I thought my parents were too strict. They impose a lot of rules on me. For example; I was not allowed to stay over at my friend’s house, and my friends were not allowed to come over to my house to sleep over. My parents were also very controlling that at times I was so afraid of them, that I didn’t even speak to them. Their customs were so old fashion that whenever company came over, we knew already that we had to go outside until the company left. We were not allowed to go inside when my parents had company. I thought that was cruel and very unfair of my parents. Another thing that I thought was very unfair was that whenever I misbehave all my mother had to do was look at me with that evil look that she gave me and I knew that I was going to get punished. To put it bluntly, whatever my parents said, that’s what had to be done and I was not allowed to answer back.
I always felt like I was a prisoner instead of a daughter. I guess their ways was what taught me to grow inside and how today I look at my parents with a different attitude.
Today I respect them for teaching me to make better choices in my life. I see now why my parents had the attitude that they had. They made good judgements toward my life and they seem to be wiser now that they have gotten older. My parents also seem to be more understanding. For example, the other day I went over to the...