College essay While growing up. I would say i've been parented particularly very well. I've learned a lot of great values from my parents. Growing up with parents from a Jamaica is a little different from the norm in suburban massachusetts. Your parents are more strict, most of your family lives overseas and the overall culture is different. Over the past seventeen years of my life my parents have instilled many values into my life that still carry me on today. Growing up my dad had to work for what he wanted or needed . being that he was a fifteen year old boy coming from jamaica. With little money growing up my father worked hard to make ends meet. So my dad taught me about hard work. He told me that good things come to those who work hard