They would come in a shabby car with cleaning products--from working with a house cleaning company. Why me? I would ask myself. Why couldn’t I be like other kids? I felt humiliated whenever I thought of how we had to live in such poor conditions. At the time, I didn’t appreciate my parents enough to be proud of them, but now I realize how close-minded I was. Now that my sister is going through her middle school years, she is going through the same phase I went through. As her older sister, I try to show her that what my parents do is nothing to be ashamed of and that she should appreciate her life, as not everyone gets a family like the one we were blessed with. As my siblings translate into the same stage in life I went through, they help me realize how wrong I was about my life and mature into appreciating the hard work my parents do to help their children be
They would come in a shabby car with cleaning products--from working with a house cleaning company. Why me? I would ask myself. Why couldn’t I be like other kids? I felt humiliated whenever I thought of how we had to live in such poor conditions. At the time, I didn’t appreciate my parents enough to be proud of them, but now I realize how close-minded I was. Now that my sister is going through her middle school years, she is going through the same phase I went through. As her older sister, I try to show her that what my parents do is nothing to be ashamed of and that she should appreciate her life, as not everyone gets a family like the one we were blessed with. As my siblings translate into the same stage in life I went through, they help me realize how wrong I was about my life and mature into appreciating the hard work my parents do to help their children be