Compare And Contrast My Mother And Father Essay

Mother and Father My mother and father have opposite personalities but they complement each other. My mother has a go with the flow, fun, relationship oriented personality. The positive traits that stem from my mom’s personality is she is very positive, a motivator, and a people person. The negative traits that stem from my mom is that she sometimes over compensates the positive because of all the negative that occurs in my family. My mom also does not have a positive body image of herself and is not confident. My father has a by the book, serious, analytical, and fun personality. The positive traits that he has is hard worker, and service oriented. The negative traits that he has a negative way of thinking. He is also detail oriented but …show more content…
I want my future children to know that they can tell my spouse and I anything at any time. I want them to be comfortable with talking with both my husband and I. I would also like to have family dinner. My family rarely had dinner altogether. I believe that eating all together at the table is going to help bring the family closer and help with the lines of communication. I want to make weekly date night a priority. My spouse and I do not have to go out but we need to set a day of the week and it is our time together, no kids or work. I would also like to have family home evening weekly. I want my kids to know how important Family Home Evening is. One night will be set aside and we will be together as a family discussing the gospel. My parents are great people and I love them. I have learned that I do not want to parent like they have. I am the second of six children. There is a twelve-year age gap between the oldest and the youngest. The first three are close in age. The last three are close in age. My parents were much stricter in their parenting with the older kids than the younger kids. Parenting needs to be consistent and it is important to me that each child feels love. A problem that occurred and still occurs in my family is jealousy and not feeling loved. I want to make sure each child of mine feels loved. No one will need to compete for my spouses and I attention. I am majoring in Early Childhood Education/Special Education which is going to help me understand young children and what they need. It is important to me that my children will not feel jealous of their siblings but love