Should adult children adopt an attitude of gratitude toward their parents?
Every childhood is different, so to expect adult children to be grateful towards their parents is not necessarily a given. Many children go through awful and abusive childhoods, so how can they be expected to be grateful for their parents when they are older? As children, growing up seems difficult and parents always seem unfair. Children act as though their parents were never kids and couldn’t possibly understand any problems that youngsters can go through. However, as children grow up and become adults, hopefully we can gain a better understanding of our parents and what they went through. With this realization also comes the fact that our parents aren’t just parents. They are also adults that have their own problems and issues to deal with. I myself had a good childhood, but of course there were times that I disagreed with my parents. We got along well until I hit my teen years. That was a very rocky road until I was about 21. When I was a teen I thought my parents were ancient and
