As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.
I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.
To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.
Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.
Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.