comparative essasy - comparing my mother and my father

Where do they get this stuff? Some people say that you are a sum of all of your influences. For the most part, I agree with these people. I have had many influential people in my life. I believe my friends, people I have worked with, schoolmates and even television has helped mold me into who I am today, but I think the two most influential people in my life were my parents. My mother …

…alcohol could be so bad, that she wanted nothing to do with it ever again. After hearing the stories my mother and my father have preached to me, I think I had it pretty easy growing up. Now I just wonder how I'm going to handle my kids someday. I know its going to reflect my youth, and I can only hope that I take the best of what both my parents have given me.