Comments on: The Three Most Influential Lessons My Parents Taught Me

By: Robin Poulin

Robin Poulin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:17:11 +0000

A well written and well loved post.
One lesson I learned was when lending money… first decide if you can live without it and count it as gone. If you don’t you can destroy a friendship.
I also learned to spend your money wisely getting something for it (owning a home instead of renting – if you can afford it). You feel a sense of accomplishment and greater personal value then.
I’ve also learned through their experience that you must plan ahead to be prepared for the future.
Thanks for the post.

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By: Omai

Omai — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:29:18 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing your great story, you got such a great father that every one wish for.
I realize that there is a big difference in education methods that Western parents and Asia parents use to teach their children.
Usually, in my country, there is no opened-conversation between parents and children, there is no “because I said so”, too. When I did something wrongs, I received punishment.
I started learning using money when I was 6, but I was given very small amount of money which just enough to buy a small cake at schol in break time. After growing up, I look back and feel that my parents have used the right methods to teach me. The punishment will be effective if parents tell their children why they doing so.
However, for my future kids, I will consider using both methods, the one that I learn from you and the one from my childhood experiences.

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By: SJ

SJ — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:38 +0000

Great post!

Sounded like you have a great dad who raised you really well =)

Esp. the “showing’ as opposed to just telling and mantra what nots hehe…

Has a warm feeling in side me

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By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:48:22 +0000

I have two different reactions to this post.

Firstly that it was brilliant and that I want to teach these lessons to my future children and that you wrote it very well and expressed it clearly too.

And then the second reaction is sadness. Now that I think about it, my dad told me all the same lessons that yours did [he even used the exact same phrase, "the best time to plant a tree is thirty years ago, the second best time is now"], but in my case they didn’t stick. Whether this is because they were divorced, so I only saw him at weekends, which mean it was always ‘tell’ and never ’show’, whether it was because discussing such things would happen once in a blue moon, or because I could see that he didn’t stick to it in his own life, from as much as I could see, or for some other reason. Maybe I’ll learn them from now on though.

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