My Father - 3

One thing I really appreciate about my parent, especially my dad was that he always gave us opportunities to speak up, even it sounded very silly. He always listened to us before he spoke.

He was a strict dad like most of his generation, but he was open-minded. Because of this, our home was always open to my friends from elementary school to college. All my friends liked to stay in my home, they knew that my parent would treat them like adults, they really enjoyed that moment. My mom would offer them a meal if either was lunch time or dinner time, my dad would like to talk to them, sometime joked with them, all my friends were so happy in my house. Maybe that's the reason I got a lots of friends since I was little.

On the other hand, my dad would correct them if he heard something not quite right. So some 'bad' guys were 'afraid' of my dad because his words would not be very easy to swollen.

My dad would not blame us whenever we made mistakes. He always tried to explain to us why it was wrong and focus on how to fix the problem. This is one thing I learned from him and try to use it when teaching Thomas. As parents, you correct your children's bad behaviors not themselves let your children know the consequences of mistakes and your children still feel being loved even you discipline them. So I don't believe punishment which may only decreases kid's self-confidence.