We didn't have everything we wanted when we were younger, but there was never a moment we didn't feel our parents weren't doing everything they could.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.
I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.