Ok, your parents didn't raise you right. But what if they did? Do you really think your life would be better? Would you be rich, happy and famous now?
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MarthaStewart
ANSWERS: 13
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IMO blaming your upbringing for your current status in life (good or bad) is a cop out. It's about rising above and being the very best you can be inspite of all your short comings or windfalls in life.
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There have been several studies of identical twins raised by different adoptive parents. These studies seem to indicate a genetic propensity toward similar careers, similar hobbies, even similar wives or husbands ... sometimes even having the same names. What this tells us is that genetics has a much larger impact on behavior than does parenting, apparently. So ... I would probably have done similar things in my life regardless of parenting style.
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who's to say what is right the right way? i think that where you are in life depends on your own decision making-to a certain extent.
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I don't know about being rich happy or famous,but I'm sure it would be much more improved.I am naturally capable of so much,so when a child isn't nurtured properly.all that means zip squash.Without love,unconditional,we are nothing,and for some of us,we are nothing. +5
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sometime we cannot blame our parents,beause they were not aware that the world in the future will so challenging, and they took life easy, but as we were growning and the time comes to face the world ,we find it is difficult and always think that our parents should have done better for us.
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Emotionally and mentally my life would be much much better. And what goes beyond that, I would have much more time to focus on actual life instead of defending myself and later recovering from damage. Maybe this would make me do everything I did, or will do a couple of years earlier. But I'll get to it either way. Just a pity cause I feel I've been heavily set back on my course to the future.
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I am happy. I don't blame my parents. I kind of blame the era & the drugs. Got over those too.
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nurturing doesn't always produce positive outcome. look at the kids who are raised by wonderful people and yet still turn out bad. conversely, look at the people who are raised by reprobates and come out on top.
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I would not be the same person I am today in an unpredictable way. but statisticaly my odds are that I would be worse off than I am..... or was until I married my burden... since such a life change would likely have had me never meet her I would not be as endebted as I am, few people are as nonproductive as she
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Just different.
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I may not be richer, happier or more famous...but they might have a better nursing home chosen for them ;)
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I don't want to be rich or famous. I can't think of a worse curse. I am happy now, and really couldn't be much happier, unless, of course, I had better health. I don't think my life would be a whole lot different now, but I wouldn't have lost my twenties to depression and ill health. I might have married younger and had another child or two before I got too old and sick. I might not have lost so many jobs to ill health, and I might have a little cushion in the bank to fall back on. The thing I try to keep in mind is that no matter how poor I might seem by U.S. standards, I have more wealth than 80% of the world. I try to live in gratitude for what I have, rather than acting like a spoiled brat and complaining about what I don't have.
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My parents raised me right, and my life sucks. So much for that theory.
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