Rules I learned as a child !

When I was young, my step-father taught us all some things I have never forgotten. 1) Don’t lie, he hated liars 2) Always stand by family no matter what 3) Never steal from anyone 4) Avoid confrontations of any kind that can be physical or verbally angry. 5) Before you engage mouth, engage brain, think about those you are talking to and how it affects them. 6) Always treat others as you wish to be treated yourself. 7) Do not couch something in a way, when you say it, you are hiding what you really feel. 8) Never insult someone’s intelligence, you may find out, they don’t like it, in a bad way. 9) Never think because you were put in charge, you can say or do what you like, because you can’t. 10) Never harm an animal. 11) Never hit a woman period. 12) Respect your elders at all times .

Following those rules, as I was taught, I have survive 68 years now, never got into a physical alterantion, and got through, Elementary School, High School, and College, the U.S. Army, The Army National Guard and The U.S. Navy. They carried me though two marriages also. Dad also taught all of us as we grew up, we can do anything we put our mind to, if we just stick to it. He was right, about a lot. When we are growing up, we just don’t get all our parents taught us and as we age we forget some of it also. I hope I never forget it, any of it, but I am aging, so excuse me if I do.