What certain personality quirks do you take from your parents? Do you feel pride in the habits you've obtained from your parents or are you ashamed? Do your parents have traits that you hate or admire? The point is for you to analyze how you differ from your parents.
I've developed certain traits from both my mother and father. From my mom, I got my ability to forgive, my acceptance of other's beliefs, and I'm unable to hold a grudge. From my father, I learned...Well, I haven't really picked up any good traits. I'm short on patience, I'm contradicting, and I'm stubborn in my debates (I'm aware of how that contradicts what I learned from my mom but I'm kind of a nut job anyway). He's got a few other really bad traits but I'm not going to go into that because I'm trying not to turn this into a rant. Of course, it's worth noting that it's been said numerous times that we're individual human beings with free will and the ability to shape ourselves in a way that makes us unique. On the other hand, it's been proven that certain psychological traits become part of the child when exposed to a constant negative atmosphere. I find sometimes that I can be just like my dad and I really hate that. I'm not trying to entirely blame him for all the negative little things about me. That wouldn't be fair. But to say that he's had no effect on my psyche would be bullshit. Trying to change a thinking pattern is a very difficult thing to do and can't be done quickly.
Anyway, take the time to look over yourselves and all of the things that your parents do that you find yourself doing and deicde whether or not your feel content with it.
I've developed certain traits from both my mother and father. From my mom, I got my ability to forgive, my acceptance of other's beliefs, and I'm unable to hold a grudge. From my father, I learned...Well, I haven't really picked up any good traits. I'm short on patience, I'm contradicting, and I'm stubborn in my debates (I'm aware of how that contradicts what I learned from my mom but I'm kind of a nut job anyway). He's got a few other really bad traits but I'm not going to go into that because I'm trying not to turn this into a rant. Of course, it's worth noting that it's been said numerous times that we're individual human beings with free will and the ability to shape ourselves in a way that makes us unique. On the other hand, it's been proven that certain psychological traits become part of the child when exposed to a constant negative atmosphere. I find sometimes that I can be just like my dad and I really hate that. I'm not trying to entirely blame him for all the negative little things about me. That wouldn't be fair. But to say that he's had no effect on my psyche would be bullshit. Trying to change a thinking pattern is a very difficult thing to do and can't be done quickly.
Anyway, take the time to look over yourselves and all of the things that your parents do that you find yourself doing and deicde whether or not your feel content with it.