I have always been a homebody. In high school, my strict (very Haitian) parents would not let me go out as much as my friends did, so I fought against them just because…well, I was a teenager. When I got to college and was able to go out whenever I wanted, I tried it for [...]
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Top 5 lessons I learned from my Haitian mother
I always complain about how strict my parents were when I was growing up, but I really wouldn’t change a thing. I now feel that the limits worked for me and kept me from doing things I wasn’t ready to do anyway. Obviously since I’m of a different generation than my mother (and my children [...]
