What do you do that your parents DID?

[BarTopDancer]

Spawned from KatieSue's thread.

I love to bake and cook. My parents used to cook dinner and we ate as a family. When she went back to work it may not have been fancy but we ate as a family up until I graduated high school. My mom baked for my birthdays, for holidays. She still does to an extent. I can make the same thing she makes and hers is better.

I have company loyalty. I know in this age I shouldn't. My dad worked for the same company until they moved to SC when I was in high school. Then another company until he was forced into retirement.

[€uroMeinke]

Drink cognac, indulge my curiosity & wanderlust, hang with people younger than myself, read, listen to eclectic music, appreciate art, the abstract, and the absurd, eat European style, engage in philosophic conversations, live beyond my means, and have adventures.

[3894]

Drink cognac, indulge my curiosity & wanderlust, hang with people younger than myself, read, listen to eclectic music, appreciate art, the abstract, and the absurd, eat European style, engage in philosophic conversations, live beyond my means, and have adventures.

I love this answer! I'm going to steal it and edit it for me. My parents probably should never have been parents but they sure did have joie de vivre.

Eat See's candy, indulge my curiosity & wanderlust, hang with people younger , also older, and even swankier than myself, read, listen to eclectic music, appreciate art, the abstract, and the absurd, eat European style, speak French fluently, engage in philosophic conversations, live beyond my means, and have adventures.

[~MS~]

Ok since this one says parents I can go with the things my dad taught me well....my family has nothing to do with my gene pool and everything to do with their places in my heart...some are genetically related but most are not. Embracing life as it gets handed to you...why waste time whining about the negative, it's negative...find the positive and run with it. Eating comfort foods (that one probably should be on the shouldn't do list but it's not). Taking mega amounts of photographs of everything we experience from fun vacations to everyday life. Tell those I love that I love them verbally and often. It's not enought that they 'know it' they deserve to hear the words.

[Not Afraid]

I love to travel and explore places like my Dad did (my Mom went along on trips as well but didn't have the lust for travle like my Dad did). From my Mom, I got the love of clothes, shopping and decorating. :rolleyes:

[blueerica]

I honestly don't know of a thing my mom or dad did that I do, though I have personality traits from both. These threads have truly perplexed me.

I could say, I love to grill, like my father, though I didn't really know him until I was 18, and don't talk to nor see him often.

Could I attribute habits to important non-parental figures in my life? I know I have a few of those.

[Alex]

Yeah, while I am sure I have been shaped in many ways I can't think of many broadly recognizable habits that I could clearly say I do because of my parents.

Frankly, my life is so different than my parents that it would be hard to find much overlap.

[blueerica]

You know, I guess I could come up with something... I tend to live outside of 'The Plan.' If I had my choice (and the fat wallet necessary for the fuel costs), I'd be road tripping every weekend.

But I think it's a personality thing, because they did it, but never with me.

Damn it.

[Gemini Cricket]

I became fond of R&B music, classic b/w movies and musicals.

[lashbear]

Cook carrot and walnut cake (I made one for MIL today) *yum*
Eat Bacon
listen to classical music
thicken tinned tomatoes with cornstarch and eat it on toast
Eat Bacon
enjoy evaporated milk as cream in my coffee
line the kitchen bench with newspaper, and after I've peeled all the veggies for diner, roll it all up and throw it away
Eat Bacon.
Arrange the cutlery in the drawer with Spoons on the left, Forks in the middle, Knives on the right.

[MouseWife]

I wonder where Lashie got his love for bacon? Hmmm.....

Well, trying to be positive {until later,I'll post later on katiesues' thread...}:

I do love road tripping. This isn't something they necessarily did on purpose, they were military and we moved all over the place. I love the car loaded up and people chatting, reading, getting along and enjoying the places along the way. I trip myself out; when I'm traveling, I feel as if one or another sibling/parent is with me.

I love to read. Love books. My father instilled that in us. That we would end up saying things to the kids like 'Treat your books kindly, they are your friends.' As well as my having way too many books. {is that possible?}

I love to play card games. Mostly I got this from my mom, games to play with a regular deck of cards. My dad played other games like Heart and Rook. Also board games. But my mom got me into Chinese Checkers, checkers, and, Speed. I also learned NOT to let the kids just win. The Hubster says I am mean but I know it means a lot more when they beat me fair and square. What an accomplishemt! {LOL Oh, do I toot my own horn? I am not that great, just at the games we play, it takes them some time to beat me}.

Music. Both of my parents loved it, all kinds of it. Reel to reel, 8track, records, on the t.v., whatever. And, my mother loved to dance. I'd walk in on her dancing and she'd extend her arm to me 'Shall we dance?' and we would.

GC, I used to love to watch those movies with my family. Musicals, the old movies. I loved Shirley Temple movies, I was little, K?

Which reminds me, I also got the love for cheesy t.v. from them. And game shows. Jokers Wild, Truth or Consequences, Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune. Charlies' Angels, Love Boat, Fantasy Island. Movie of the week. All of that, spent with my parents. I remember when Gone With the Wind came to T.V., my dad made sure I came out and watched it. It was awesome. He told me of when it came out and he went to see it.

I got my compassion for people from my mom {my dad, too, but he was different, which is what a good set of parents should be, he covered one aspect of caring for someone including their education, etc. and my mom covered the other part, the part you really can't see...}. Which this, I must say, could go in both good and bad. I am a pushover. I see too many sides, too many possibilities and I need to just tell people to f' off. Ya know? But my mom taught me that, she always looked beyond what you see, to think about what they are going through.

I did get from them that my kids need to be good to one another. I never made them take care of one another, like I know my older siblings had to of me, but I did have them at least be responsible for how they treated one another and for little for the little guy.

Oh, and I love sausage with strawberry preserves inside a buttermilk biscuit.
And, coffee and toast. One from my dad and one from my mom.

Thanks BtD for making me think of nice things. I think I need this about now. :snap:

[lizziebith]

From my mom: be creative. a free spirit. yourself.

From my dad: work hard. finish what you start.

From both: think about others. help where you can. be nice.

I can't touch that other thread.

Neither one said "it's ok." Which I think the little kid in me is all I wanted. Oops. :(

I'm a weird mix of my parents...but I have to just guess about the ok thing, even though I'm now oldish. Now I'm just ok to me. Which is ok. Heh-heh...And it really is.:)

[NickO'Time]

Went to concerts. My Dad saw The Doors in Detroit.

Traveled the world.

Sadly, I commute like they did. Something I was trying to avoid.