What My Family Values

Without family where does an individual learn his or her values? When we were born, we were not born with values, but instead values are things we learn from our family. All my values were developed from my family, and as I grew into an adult, I made most of them my own values. As a child, one is dependent on his or her family for emotional, physical, and mental support. The way a person values things is determined by one’s background.
Family has to be the most important value to me more than anything. Without my family, I can’t imagine where I’ll be. How would I interact emotionally, physically, and mentally with others? How would I function properly in society? These are the questions I ask myself when I think about the support I get from my family. I define family as a support network with one’s immediate family and extended family. Family is whomever an individual chooses to make family; it is people with whom one has an emotional connection and admiration.
I live with both my Mother and Father, plus two other brothers. Two if the kids, including me, are is college and not leaving at home, but my little brother is still in high school so he still lives with my parents at home. Even though my older brother and I don’t live at home, we have to go home once in a while, as often as once a week, in order to visit and say “hi” to my mother because she can’t function properly without seeing all her kids often. I guess that’s how that value works. My mother values the presence of her kids at all time.
Before my mother married my father, she was practicing the Islamic religion because half her family practices the Traditional religion and the other half practices Islamic. On my father’s side, his great grand father practiced ...

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...g bad, I can hear my mother’s voice in my head telling me to do it and see what happens. Mainly because they have made themselves known towards us since we were little because my mother is not afraid to hit one of the kids for misbehaving. I think it’s because of the hitting that makes my brothers and I what we are today. Who knows, maybe without my parents’ kind of parenting style, I would’ve been dead due to doing stupid things or probably in jail. I’m probably going to adapt some of my parents’ parenting style but add my own twist to it.
To conclude my family’s value, I would like to say that being a Nigerian is probably the biggest impact on our values, because it is very different from what the American society values. With that being said, I would like to give thanks to my family because of what they’ve taught me and where they’ve put me today in my life.