My New Subsection

Do you believe you had a good childhood? Please explain

yes, first of all my parents were awesome and treated us great! They let us be kids by running around outside all day and grew up with a ton of kids on my block!

What did your parent(s) do with you for family time?

well my mom worked on weekends, but my dad would play catch and basketball with us. And bring us to Chicago every summer to visit family.

Did your parent(s) make it a point to show and tell you that they loved you?

yea my dad is a manly man but he still showed us he loved us and my mom is very sensitive so she always has!

As a child when you did something wrong, what kind of punishment (if any) did you get?

My dad did sometimes go a bit extreme he was pretty strict, but my mom was there for backup have the punishment fit the crime.

Do you believe you will raise your children the same way you were raised? Why or why not?

yes and no. As a mother I would love to have weekends off unlike my mom to spend time with the kids more but I understand she had to make money!

Do you believe that the way a child is raised determines the person they become?

of course, I know if I would have listened to my parents more when they said "trust me you'll regret it when you get older" and some things I do regret.

Do you believe you grew up in a good family environment? Why or why not?

yes, no spankings ok maybe a couple but it wasn't their way of punishment. My mom is Italian so she is just a loud person. I would be more scared/sad when she was disappointed though.

Did your home environment positively or negatively affect your growing up? Please explain

positively, all that little crap was for my own good.

What do you wish, if anything, was different about your childhood?

more time with my mom, but I hang out with her all the time now as an adult. I regret some things I did to my dad too we didn't talk for awhile but he broke our family apart.

Do you really believe there is such a thing as a "perfect childhood"?

no, mine wasn't perfect by any means just you realize when you are older things can always be worse and some families have it way worse.