My Guardian Angels

Parents’ expectations shape the life of their children. These expectations affect the children psychologically, behaviorally, and socially. When they are too high, they build up pressure on the kids, sometimes leading them to feeling displeased with themselves and even to depression. When they are too low, this may lead to the children not achieving their full potential with the lack of encouragement and support. As for me, my parents’ expectations were always high, encouraging me to always do my best, supporting me in every aspect of my life, but with always meeting their expectations throughout the years, more and more expectations were built up and which needed to be maintained.

I was an only child for six years before my first sister came. Throughout these years, all the attention was focused on me. My parents wanted me to be the best kid in the crowd, the best between my friends, the best in school, and eventually the best in everything. Before the time I reached first grade, my mother had taught me how to read and write properly. As my first sister came, the attention never ceased to revolve around me especially that I was in school now. My mother used to read with me every story, study with me every for every subject, and stay with me until I wrote all of my homework. She had me raised up to her standards so well that I even became a perfectionist. Papers on my notebooks used to become so thin and faded away because of my constant erasing of the word if it was not properly written in the best handwriting. My father was always a great support alongside my mother. He did not pressure me as much as my mother did. He was always an encouragement to me when I did something wrong, trying to soothe situations out when my mother w...

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...ghest grades due to the large amount of money they are spending on me and their expectations of me being a high achiever. But I know all of this was done to make me happy at the end.

Not every person can live up to their parents expectations, but I will always be thankful to my parents for this. Their high expectations have molded me throughout my years to be the best person I can possibly be and will continue to be. They have taught me the right thing from the wrong, and even now when they get disappointed in something, they don’t try to bring me down but on the contrary, they try to comfort me and even sometimes tell me that I do not always have to live up to my own very high expectations of myself. I will forever be thankful to my parents, for I would not be the person I am today without them. Seeing them happy and proud makes me the happiest person in the world.