What is one thing that you wish your parents would have told you?

I wish my parents would have told me how hard it is to make it on my own. They told me about money but I had no idea how hard it would be to afford rent, gas, water, and groceries. It is very hard to make it on your own.

For me, the one thing I wish my parents would have spent a little more time on would definitely be the subject of independence. We try to hard to break away from our parents to actually be independent but I believe a lot of us don't know what it takes, with day to day things, to be on our own. Like preparing us to be more focused on having a good job for stability, learning that bills come everyday, every month without stopping, and they don't care if you don't have enough money to pay them.

I suppose that is a lot to put on the heads of our children but there has to be a way to get the lessons across without depressing everyone. :-).

I wish they would have told me that anything was possible for me if I worked hard and explored all options.

I came from avery religious family. My mother is a strict Catholic that spent years working with the Church and as a substitute teacher at a Catholic school. My father is a Missouri Synod Lutheran (which is the most conservative type of Lutheran in the United States).

They were both older when I was born, and still held on to the older Christain values from the 1950s and before. I wish that my parents had told me when I was young that I was able to make my own religious decisions. I wish that I was told that it was alrgith for me to interpret faith on my own, and in my own way.

Instead, I was told what to think, what to believe, how to pray, and how to deal with sin. I was brought up under a strict regemin of religion. I was always a child that dealt more with logic than with believing anything without proof.As I got older, I ended up incorporating this into my religious life.

I went through many many years questioning faith and questioning religion as a whole. At this point in my life, I have all but completely walked away from religion. I think that one of the aspects taht caused me to loose faith in religion, and in the Church was the fact that I was not allowed to make my own deciisions.

I was not allowed to truely question. When I was allowed to question, I could not question the circular logic that was used to give the answers.In fact, I went through 12 years of the Catholic school system. I spent a lot of time in the office, in detention, or in lectures due tot he fact taht I found the need to question religion.

I found the need to learn more, and was not able to follow blindly.In fact, as I look back, I realize taht this was the main way that I rebelled during my teen years. I believe that if it had been pointed out at a young age that I could make my own religious decisions, there are a lot of dark points in my schooling that could have been avoided. I believe that if I had been raised to understand religion in my own way, I would not have gone down the path that I had.

If my parents had just pointed out that I could make decisions like this on my own, I think I would have, and not tried to distroy the views of others. Who really knows, though. Things may have been different.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.