Society dictates one of the fundamental rules of a parental unit, is to teach their offspring expectations and responsibilities to be a viable contribution to society. Therefore, growing up as a military youth my father took this to an extreme. Everything about our life had rules and with those rules came responsibility. The United States government made rules for my father, my father made rules for my mother, (which she frequently broke) and consequently my father made rules for my brothers and I. I know what you’re thinking; every family has rules and responsibilities that they are supposed to do in an allotted time. The makeup of a military family is much more extreme, I give this example.
My father was fortunate enough to acquire base …show more content…
It was now Thursday morning and I woke up in a panic because I just remembered that I had not gotten the requirements done and Josie was to come around and check that evening. I quickly devised a plan as I was getting prepared for school walking around the house talking to myself. I would get out of school, pick up my brother at 4:30, it takes us 15 minutes to walk home, which would give me 15 minutes to mow the lawn. Josie was to arrive around five o’clock. I thought to myself, worse case scenario was I would get caught in the process of mowing and that would have to do. While I was walking to school I replayed the scenario in my head, and began to feel confident almost proud of the plan that I had concocted, and that I was somehow able to put off doing my responsibility and not suffering any …show more content…
The long walk home which took more time than it probably should have gave me ample time to assess how I got myself into this situation. All at once the many conversations that my father and I said about responsibility and expectations finally ran true in my mind. His particular way of raising his child to understand the harsh realities of the world, was to keep situations like this from happening. I decided from that day forth, procrastination, being unorganized and not allowing enough time to get things accomplished would never happen again. I am my father’s son and now I am the father and I take these words very seriously. Society dictates one of the fundamental rules of a parental unit, is to teach their offspring expectations and responsibility to be a viable contribution to
My father was fortunate enough to acquire base …show more content…
It was now Thursday morning and I woke up in a panic because I just remembered that I had not gotten the requirements done and Josie was to come around and check that evening. I quickly devised a plan as I was getting prepared for school walking around the house talking to myself. I would get out of school, pick up my brother at 4:30, it takes us 15 minutes to walk home, which would give me 15 minutes to mow the lawn. Josie was to arrive around five o’clock. I thought to myself, worse case scenario was I would get caught in the process of mowing and that would have to do. While I was walking to school I replayed the scenario in my head, and began to feel confident almost proud of the plan that I had concocted, and that I was somehow able to put off doing my responsibility and not suffering any …show more content…
The long walk home which took more time than it probably should have gave me ample time to assess how I got myself into this situation. All at once the many conversations that my father and I said about responsibility and expectations finally ran true in my mind. His particular way of raising his child to understand the harsh realities of the world, was to keep situations like this from happening. I decided from that day forth, procrastination, being unorganized and not allowing enough time to get things accomplished would never happen again. I am my father’s son and now I am the father and I take these words very seriously. Society dictates one of the fundamental rules of a parental unit, is to teach their offspring expectations and responsibility to be a viable contribution to