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Parion, your words are very wise. I now call you “wiseman Parion”  :—)

But people, let me know what you think about this:

Do you think Skype, Facebook, etc… is making it better for parents to keep in touch with theirs kids. I have heard of parents that had cancelled their facebook  accounts because their kids would never visit them physically. Is keeping in touch with parent virtually as good as  meeting them in person?

I have my answer, but I just would like to hear  your opinions

peace! : )

Julito, you’re right, I’m very close to my family, especially to my mom. We’re like best friends. If she or I have a problem, we always talk about it, there’s no secret between us. My mom knows me better than I do, and she’s supportive and understanding, but what I most love about her is how she always encourages me to follow my dreams. So yeah, how couldn’t I miss someone like that? 

And I’m the only child, so no one will take care of her while I’m absent =/

    English, baby you make it difficult for people like me whose family is so complex to comment on these kinds of topic. Not all of us have the perfect family. What do you mean by parents? Mother and father living together this is fairy tale to me. I think my family alone contributed to 20% of world wide divorce rate. Every member of my family is constantly moving from country to country , city to city… like I said before I just can get a grip of my family, I wish somebody can sit me down  and draw me a family tree and have me figure out where the heck everybody is. Who’s who?  Sometime I think about it, I laugh but sometimes this whole mess just gets under my skin. I wish I had a normal family

     I haven’t visited my adoptive mother nor had she visited me for 5 years now, so she’s out of the equation. Next, my biological mother, she visited me once because I needed a ride to carry my bed to my new place when I moved out. She had kicked me out mainly because my step-father despised me and was envious of me. So there was not” visiting parents “for me, because I was told I wasn’t welcomed. Soon after her relationship with him went downhill, she too has moved out with the kids. So when I visited her new place over two years ago I didn’t feel like home, because it wasn’t home, period! I didn’t have a room that reminded me of my days living with her, not a picture of me hanging on the wall, nothing! It was just a numb experience, and very depressing. So instead of spending 9 days like I planned to, I ended up spending just 3 days at her house.  My mother and I have a strange relationship the further we are to each other the closer we feel. Despite our differences, I always feel like I owe my life to her, because she bore me for 9 months in her belly and that alone is enough for me love her unconditionally. I think she might love me too; but we never express any appreciation to one another in words.

So for the sake of sticking to today’s topic: my grandfather and grandmother (when they lived together) on my mother’s side are the only parents I had a chance to visited and had good memories about it. My grandfather was a grease monkey so I’d spend hours handing tools to him as he takes his car apart and remount it, just as a hobby. My grandmother always cooks me the best food and we’ll do the dishes together, then if  I spend the night over, I’ll share the bed with my grandfather while my grandma enjoys the comfort of the floor. I always feel loved and welcomed when I visited them; it’s like I knew them forever and I only met them 3 years ago. : )

Note: I love my family and my adoptive mother and mother; I’m not the bad kid as my story might suggest. I just wasn’t privileged to have an ordinary childhood. But my experiences had molded me into the person I am today, and I’ll try my best to make my kids life easier than mine was growing up. So when they log in on English, baby they can say how they love it when they go to Father snoopy’s house :). I hope my dilemma didn’t bore any of you reading this.

MNAL- They are also blessed  to have a such a loving care daughter.

SANTD,, I see that you are a closed-knit family  and it must be painful  momentarily braking apart  from your parents .It  could  help you to ease your mind   if you have siblings  that  can stay at home and watch over them while you are away.

I still live with my parents, so in fact I don’t know  how it feels like living far from them, but if I get into college this year, probably I’ll have to live in a city really distant from my hometown… And, to make things worst, I won’t be able to visit them so often, because I won’t have the money to spend with flights and other transportation. Every time I caught myself thinking of it, I get cold feet. I know that we’re supposed to leave our parents’ house one day, but it’s difficult coz I bet will never find a place so peaceful and lovely as our parent’s house :D

i’m a colleage student now,only in my holidays can i stay with my parents,when i was at school ,i called my mother everyday,then,my father would go on and talk with me,,,now i’m on holiday,i enjoy the time with them,it seems that there is so much time in your life,but think carefully ,there is a little time of you to accompany parents,,,you will have your own career and family,you have to spend your time to solve these stuffs,maybe you become busy and lazy,,,so ,just treasure every moment with your parents,,,

 for me,, it rarely to visit them,,  because i have not enough time and when i visit home. yes,, i sleep all the day… haha.. i lazy .. and my mom talked alot… because she missed me…. Some time she visiited me.. and stay with me long days,, I have to listen her enjoy talking… i call mom everyday.. just for some day if my job is very busy i cant call her… but anyway,, i called her as long as i can.  I love you mom…

Hello,  Butta,   !  SHUT THE  DOOR!!  DO YOU THINK   WE WANT TO HEAT THE WHOLE OUTDOORS” this is hilarious.  I use to say ” turn off the light ” the power company is already  sufficiently rich    

Dear, Julito. I use Skype, Facebook, Yahoo MSN etc. I use everything possible that can connect me with my parents. I use mobile phone for  the loooooonnnnnnng talks with my mother. My family knows “I’m absent” when I’m talking with my mother.

Kotleysa, Hello, I don´t know. I am just asking  . what about skype to stay you more  in touch  with Mom and Dad.

Life is so short, hence it is very important to live, enjoying every moment with people which are so precious to us. 

People often don’t appreciate friends, parents, beloved etc that are around us. Sometimes it is too late to turn time back

Parion, true,  We must honor our parents while they are with us, because when they are gone there is nothing we can do  about it. I have seen people neglecting their parents and when they suffered the lost of  them crying for being so mean when they were alive         

I visit my parents three times a year, they visit me twice a year and we talk by Skype once a week. I don’t find stressful when I visit them or when I have them come to stay with me. I’m aware that parents don’t live forever. Because of this I enjoy every minute I am with them.

Neda Heidari, you are correct, saying “parents,especially mothers,can’t tolerate the distance of their children ”. My mother can’t still get over the problem that there is a distance between us. :( It was really very painful day for us, when we should prepare ourselves for the life apart 

What a good subject of the lesson today! I can talk about my parents non-stop, because they are the dearest ones for me. I’d love to visit them as often as I like, but destiny has arranged things in its own way.  Unfortunately, I meet my parents once a year. It is a long journey by train ( 33 hours) to my parents and the same distance is for them to visit me. Every time I wait  on the platform of the railway station for the train, coming with my parents and brother I can’t suppress back my tears of happiness. I miss them terribly. Immense joy fills us in when we are together. I must confess, when I sense that my parents are with me, the feeling of my proofness increases.  When they leave….. I feel myself like an abandoned child. Seems to be I’m “mummy’s sissy”, though I have never been a spoiled child. On the second thought I understand how wise my parents were with their breeding in the comparison  with the  parents of my friends. I’m proud of my parents – they are the pattern of  the ideal people for me.

In my idea they children should have visit their parents and be careful about them this is the lowest chore which they have because we have made alots of afford for them during our life and we can’t relief it.

I live with my parents…and I love living with them.. neither I had to stay away from them nor I want to… because I love my parents..

I don’t think that it becomes stressful to visit them for those people who stay away… because parents are parents…. they look after us…It’s parents who made us what we are today….if it becomes stressful for us then we are moron that we are not able to understand their feelings..

today it’s happening that we are forgetting that even we will be parent one day and have children…...you know it’s said that “God can’t live with us that’s y he created parents to look after us….

there is nothing superior than the parents in our life and we must respect them in every situation… after all they teach us and have made what we are now…

I have many things to say about it but I won’t because it seems to be essay and none will like to read this.. and I want you to read this and accept it that it never becomes stressful for us…

I visit my parents as soon as I have time for this. And absolutely it’s not stressful for me to welcome them. They are my parents. In our culture and religion, they are more precious than anyone.

For example,it’s winter vocation now and I  came to Istanbul to visit my parents.