So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.
I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.