Personal Narrative: How My Mom Changed My Life

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In the environment I grew up in I was always surrounded by nothing but love and support. My dad didn't abandon me and my mom wasn't a single mother, I grew up with what a lot of kids didn't have, both of their parents. Ever since I was a little girl my parents always strived for me to do my best in everything that I took part in, greatness and perfection were the only things that were accepted, never failure. My parents didn't finish high school and out of the five children they have, not one has been to college and only one has graduated high school. I will be the first child in my family to go to college and I will be my parents first daughter to graduate high school. My mom dropped out of high school at the age of 15 to raise my sister, my dad dropped out of high school to take care of his family since his ill father could not, and when my parents had kids none of them graduated high school nor went off to college. In retrospect to my parents and my older siblings not graduating high school, my parents put excessive pressure on me to be their first child to not only …show more content…

My mom and dad both worked full time jobs to support our family. My mom would cook dinner every night, she would do our laundry, she would prepare our clothes for school, and she would read to us at night before bed. On the weekends, we would go out to eat, we would play mini golf or any activity that suited our age at the time, and we would spend quality time together. In the summer, we went on vacations to Six Flags, Schlitterbahn, South Padre, Corpus Christi, etc. My parents always made sure that we were well taken cared of and made sure we knew they loved us, my parents gave us things that they themselves never had and missed out

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