Do you always consider your parents advice as the best way to follow?

My parents are no more but when they were alive i always followed their advice but at times i would do what i wanted to and my folks agreed to it if they were convinced. My parents were quite broadminded and very social so they did not object to anything i wanted to do if it was reasonable and within limits of decency. Ofcourse i lived at a time when we were taught in school to always obey our elders and respect them and their decisions because whatever they advised was always for our good.However i never transgressed the limits and being obedient by nature i did not have any problems with them.Well, i did have an affair with a girl but since neither of our parents were agreeable to it we broke up.However i did not regret it but have remained a bachelor all my life as i did not find anyone who could replace her. she was my first and last love in this life but i don`t blame my parents for it because both of us were too young and not in a condition either to marry or support ourselves.

I do not always think the advice my mother has for me is very trustworthy, I am living with her at the moment, but I had a pregnancy scare once, and she was all set to set me up with an abortion appointment, and at the time I was 26 or 27...I would have hoped that I wouldn't have gone that route, but for her to want to make that kind of life decision for me made me never look at her in the same way again, and I know now that if something ever happened like that that my dad would be there to help me, and not try to destroy the baby I carried.

of course after getting advice you need to make judgements on whether its good for you. Even then im sure parents would give you advice that is beneficial to you, provided its something in the area they are well versed in.coz you might get advice on issues they are not entirely sure about. but oftentimes, their advice is the best really, trust me!

Hello jaiho, I think consider them because no parents let their children being to be misled. But our parents advice sometimes not being followed, right?

From experience, I would say that our parent's advice is the best one could get. A lot of you may disagree with my view but I have really understood the value of my parent's advice. This is not to say that all that they say is right,but in most cases they are right and something we should analyze before doing otherwise.

Of course not, but 9x out of 10 I wish I would have followed it afterwards. The problem with my parents are the were highschool and college sweethearts. They have been married this nov.2009 48 years. It is hard for me to follow some of their advice because they have never been out in the real world sort of speak... Times have changed and things were not around like they are today. They did not have the same problems like people face when they were growing up.

It realy depends on what the advice is. I do turn to my mom for a lot of things and there are times when i feel that her advice is the best and I follow it. But there are also times when I just feel like her advice didn't fit the situation and doesn't help me. There are times when I get advice for various people and follow certain ones or just make the decision on my own whether its good or not.

Most of the times, I do seek my parents advice and consider their points of view. However, that does not mean I must follow their advise. Their advice might be feasibile in yesterday, but not today due to the vast differences in thinking in today's era.

I didn't always follow my parents' advice but now I know that now. I learned from mistakes and now I will always follow their advices even though their advices are not the bests to follow.

Hi jaiho2009! I always consider my parents' advice. I may not always do what they tell me when it comes to some issues, but I take them into consideration. I am sure that my parents want the best for me and would not tell me anything that would harm me.

Hello jaiho2009, I believe that parents always want the best for their children and whenever they advise you, they only think of giving you the best choice in life. As for me, I always make my own decision but I do listen to their opinion first. If I think that is the best for me, I will follow and there are times when I disagree with them too.

My relationship with my parents is not the norm and I would not say that they have ever given me any advice that is worth remembering and relying upon when times are hard I fact, harsh as this may sound, some people should not ever be parents and mine are those individuals who are too dysfunctional and damaged and have no business raising children. My parents, my mother especially, have been emotionally very abusive to my sister and I and now she and I have children of our own and we have learnt from our folks valuable lessons; how not to be parents!

Depends really. Depends on the topic, on the issue at hand, on how serious it is, and so on. I think you should strongly consider your parents advice at all times. But you also can't assume it's right. Parents are human beings, and they make mistakes like we all do. For example, if your parents are broke, I wouldn't exactly assume their advice on how to save money to be all that great. If your parents are happily married after 50 years, and don't like your boy friend, you might want to consider their words. Seems their way worked, so you might want to try it. On the other hand, I had a job that required me to drive my own car. My parents suggested a car that I thought would be horrible, and require too much fuel. But I got it anyway because I thought maybe they were right. Instead they were wrong. I spent so much money on fuel, I really didn't earn much from the job. In that case, I should have ignored my parents and refused the car. I think the biggest problem we have as children of our parents, is that we assume if they were wrong about "X", then they must be wrong about everything else. That's not true. We can be wrong about one thing, and right about something else, and our parents are no different. I met a girl who fell in love with a guy, but her mother kept saying over and over and over, there's something wrong with that guy. The girl ignored her mother. You can guess what happened. One day another girl showed up at her house, and told her that she was one of a few girls this guy had, and he was married to another girl as well. The mother was right. She could have avoided tons of pain and heart ache, if she had listened to her mother. So, again I say, we should strongly consider our parents words. No, we shouldn't assume they are right every time, but we should not ignore them either.

i think i'm not the kind of girl to follow parents' advice totally. even when i was a child, i sometimes would refuse their advise, now i feel a little ashamed of it, becasue which might have hurt my parents some then. but now, thought their advice not totally feasible, i will respect them. i'll do my best not to hurt them, but to give my advice and reasons, persuading them to support mine.

My parents are humans just like everyone else, and are offered no special treatment because they are my parents. Sure I have grown to love and respect them because of what I know about them, beecause I know them so well, but they are not perfect, nor am I, nor is anyone else. I will listen to what they have to say, but i will not follow them blindly simply because they are my parents.

When I was a small child, I thought my parents were the most intelligent people in the world. When I reached my teens, they weren't as smart as I thought they were...but I still listened to them. Now that I am older and I inherited my home from my parents, I realized that they weren't that smart, and often I will state aloud "What in the blazes were they thinking?" I moved in with my Mom in 1983, and I learned which advice was good and advice that I should toss to one side after listening to it. I must have tossed 90% of the advice that was given to me, but I never told my Mom that the advice was that great. As for advice my father gave me, I quit listening when I was 15! That was about the time that he started nagging me that I should join the navy. That would have been the worse advice that I had ever taken if I had joined. I am a non-conformist and being forced to think inside the box and follow orders blindly just wasn't my kind of life. Luckily I didn't take that advice. In dealing with your parents giving advice and your taking it, you have to sift through and decide what is good for you and what won't fit in with what your doing.

The older I got, the smarter my parents got. The problem is, by the time I realized that, I was trying to pass their words down to my children.

Whether I opted to follow my parents' advice or not, I always gave it lots of thought. They gave excellent advice on honesty, caring, loving others, but I found them to be lacking in worldly matters outside their small town. For stocks and bonds advice, I went outside the family. For housing advice, I listened more to my in-laws who were real estate agents. But for any discussion, my parents were always brought in to teach and in some instances to learn. It made for a much tighter knit family.

sometimes..hummm...mostly yes \/(^_^).. If their advice doesn't make my sense, then I won't follow..simple right? :) I'm a parent now.. My dad has passed away 2 years ago T_T, he was my best advisor

It is always good to consider your parents views and then take your own decision which seems right to you. That's what i do very often.