How My Family Influenced Me Essay

Family is one of the most influential things in a person’s life. Most people are around their families day to day. There are many aspects of a family that can build a person. My family has shape me into who I am today because of the way my parents taught us and the struggles we had to face as a family.

Growing up, I had strict parents and since I am the baby girl in the family, my parents wanted to protect me more. As a child, I could never have sleepovers unless the only people who stayed over were family members and once high school started my parents told me that sleepovers were no longer alowed lbecause of being too old. This influenced me because even if sleepovers are when friends connect and get to know each other, I learned to make some of my closet friends without having those monumental moments that everyone else has. My parents also did not allow for me to date at all because they wanted me to stay focused on my education and be better. Most of the people in my family had kids when they were in high

This helped me as a person since it taught me how to be more disciplined and not go against my parents. It also helps me to stay focused on my dreams because I want to be a surgeon and the experience of dating would be nice but they taught me that dreams are more important. My parents always told me, people are not going anywhere but sometimes there is only one opportunity to accomplish your dreams. My parents are into cleaning and we use to super clean on the weekends. If anything in our house was not clean, my siblings and I would get in trouble. Their obsession with having a clean house has helped me to practice being clean. This lesson became important because I will have a house of my own and it taught me how to develop great cleaning habits. I feel that having cleaning habits is important because it keeps away infections and when people come over; they are not uncomfortable or disgusted by a person’s home. Even