What is that thing your Mom or Dad tried teaching you as a kid that you hated yet you ended being good at as an adult?

My Mother taught me only a couple things. Never hated anything she did. It was what she didn’t do for me that I hated. I craved her attention but she was always far too busy to deal with me. My Father died from leukemia when I was 4. I remember one day he put me in the shower and left me there crying. At first I was very afraid but I soon started playing in the water. Just when I started to have fun with the water, my Father’s strong hands reached in an pulled my out of the shower.

^^The things we remember. I ached reading that post. My Mom wasn’t there enough either. I was never biiter nor angry just disappointed. I had my aunt, only fifteen years older than me, do the mothering from infancy to high-school. Never had a child of her own nor got married. When she passed away at the age of 58 due to cancer, I lost a Mom. Pains me each time I think of her.

Firing housestaff

Painting walls.

Nothing. I was constantly pressing them to teach me stuff.

Math