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Great Values My Parents Taught Me
Great Values My Parents Taught Me
These values stood me in good stead in hard times
The world has changed. Maybe it is because people have gotten smarter, too smart for their own good. They know their rights, they want their rights and they assert their rights.
It is a common scenario these days; People do what they want to do even when they know it is wrong. Young people rebel and the age is getting earlier. A young child is given choices as to what food to eat even before he could read and refused the food he deemed not tasty enough.
Back in the sixties, the school, the police, parents, and the institutions are the authorities. Coming from a family of seven siblings in a modest household where my father was the sole breadwinner as a teacher, establishing order at home was very important. My mother had her hands full every day with the house chores and cooking.
I love the values my parents instilled in us — that of thrift, hard work, and simplicity in self.
On thrift, we were taught never to waste food and eat whatever is served on the table, not that there were many options. We always had rice with one meat dish, one vegetable dish, and some fried eggs. We never complained about inadequate food, having…
