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Poll: Growing Up
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)?
Where did your parents spend most of their time?
Did your family watch TV together?
Did your family eat together?
Did your family have any daily "rituals"?
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge?
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)?
Re: Poll: Growing Up
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)? usually outside or in the living room...we weren't home a lot though because we were always doing some sort of sports or at our friends houses
Where did your parents spend most of their time? all over the house...they were always doing home improvement projects
Did your family watch TV together? Yeah when I was little, but early teenage years that didn't happen as much
Did your family eat together? we did, it was always late like 8 because my parents were workaholics
Did your family have any daily "rituals"? not that I can remember but we did go to a donut shop every sunday after church and then went bowling that afternoon
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge? sometimes they would...but I've noticed with my younger brothers they have started doing it all the time now
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)? my parents did a really good job of spending time with us when we were younger...but when they started becoming workaholics that stopped and I didn't have a close relationship with my mom until planning my wedding...there are lots of things I would do differently and would take forever to list here
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)? My bedroom most of the time.
Where did your parents spend most of their time? Outside (if summer: yardwork, etc.), or living room.
Did your family watch TV together? Sometimes
Did your family eat together? Usually
Did your family have any daily "rituals"? No
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge? ROFL, no. Never.
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)? ---Encourage them more. (I was a straight A student except I ALWAYS got a B+ in Phy Ed - that's how my school worked. You got the grade once and the teacher just made that your grade EVERY semester. I got sh*t for not being a "straight A student" and the B+ not being good enough!)
--Encourage each child's strengths/interests (I was a great student, loved drama, Student Council, but my parents always bragged about my siblings' athletics from years past but never my non-athletic accomplishments.)
--I want open communication in our family (I was always terrified to talk to my parents about anything.)
--We will NOT have kids if we're in a poor financial state. I grew up knowing what it was like to have creditors calling the house, seeing my parents freak out about money, my mom having to borrow money from my grandparents or asking for $30 credit from the local grocery store.... I NEVER will let my kids see that kind of thing. I may never be able to provide my kids with designer clothing, etc, but I won't let them see that kind of low.
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)? Probably bedroom
Where did your parents spend most of their time? Mom-kitchen, dad living room and as we got older computer room
Did your family watch TV together? Not usually
Did your family eat together? Yes
Did your family have any daily "rituals"? Just dinner together
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge? There are 4 of us so there wasn't usually enough room for everyones
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)? I want to make sure we all have dinner together everynight.
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)? Outside, living room, or in my room
Where did your parents spend most of their time? Living Room usually
Did your family watch TV together? Sure did
Did your family eat together? Most nights, yes
Did your family have any daily "rituals"? No, not really.
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge? Sure did
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)? Nope - I feel very lucky to have the parents I did. Now MH's parents...that's a different story.
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)? It depended on my age, but everywhere. Outside, the family room, my bedroom. I did a lot of after school activities so as I got older I would get home at 7, eat dinner, and then have to do my homework.
Where did your parents spend most of their time? Family room and kitchen.
Did your family watch TV together? Sometimes. It depended on what was on.
Did your family eat together? Yes. Every night. And no tv was on during dinner. In fact, that is still a rule when we are all together at our parent's house.
Did your family have any daily "rituals"? No.
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge? When we were very young, but as we got older no.
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)? I honestly don't know. I think it will take shape as they grow up.
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)? I would have to say kitchen. It's where we did our homework and ate meals.
Where did your parents spend most of their time? my mom would be in the kitchen with us and when my dad came home from work, he'd eat dinner with us and then go watch some tv.
Did your family watch TV together? sometimes, like watching the Simpsons or ER but my mom really didn't watch tv.
Did your family eat together? yes
Did your family have any daily "rituals"? when my sister and I were younger, our parents would get the other one a small gift on the other sibilings birthday.
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge? report cards
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)? I would prefer to raise David and any future children the way my parents raised my sister and I. Mark's parents were more focused on earning money and not spending time with their kids. (When I say that, I mean that they knew they had to work for their $$, his mom came over here with $5 to her name). So, Mark has been instilled with a very hard working mentality, and there are times that I need to tell him, forget about cutting the grass, cleaning the house, spend time with David and I as a family.
Where did you spend most of your time while at home (i.e. your bedroom, the living room, outside, etc.)? When I was home I was either in the living room or my bedroom
Where did your parents spend most of their time? Mom-kitchen/living rooom, Dad-outside/living room
Did your family watch TV together? yep
Did your family eat together? about 1/2 the time.
Did your family have any daily "rituals"? We were a huge softball family and so a lot of our time was spent in the backyard (we were both pitchers and my dad would catch us) or at a ball park
Did your parents out your report card/tests on the fridge? nope, we were both straight a students but it was just kinda expected
What will you do differently with your own kids (if you plan on having any)? My mom and dad were wonderful, trusting, helpful parents (and still are). K's parents are a little more strict and eat dinner together at EVERY meal. I think we will split the difference quite nicely.