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Timeless Advice I Got From My Parents
(That I now live by)
As children, our parents are essentially the rule-makers of our young lives. They’re the first line of defense in what we can and cannot do and they have the power to give or take things away from us as they see fit based on their predefined rules.
They set boundaries, teach us things. and give us advice whether it be good or bad. And being at such a young age, we put our trust in them without hesitation and we do as they say (for the most part, at least). Then, as we get older, we become more and more rebellious towards the things that our parents told us to do or not to do.
We eventually resist their advice, despite the fact that it might be in our best interest, because we want to learn for ourselves.
But sometimes, in our self-taught life lessons, we reach an “I told you so” point in finding out the hard way and internally admit that we probably should have listened to that advice they gave us later down the road. And of course, there’s nothing more annoying than when you’re proven wrong — especially by your own parents.
As a soon-to-be new parent, I’m realizing that a lot of the advice that my parents gave me was actually pretty useful. And now, I essentially live by some of the random mantras that my Mom and Dad used to recite to me every…
