Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different

perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show

years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and

laugh about yet. Today's episode,

we are each going to share five things we learned from our parents and how they have stuck with us

and impact our life and the way we still do things today and the way we show up in our own families.

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We definitely learned about what not to do by watching our parents.

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Okay, let's go back and forth and share what we've learned in

this way. Like, what was the lesson or wisdom? How did they show that to you or teach you that?

And then how does it still apply in your life today or in how you raised your own family?

Okay. It was so hard to just think of five. I know. I know. Mom and dad. You taught me more than this.

There's a lot more. But I just tried to, yeah, what came to mind or was like, feels like the most

emblematic maybe of my parents. Okay. Here is my first one. It's kind of like a two in one.

How to work hard, but not take work too seriously.

And I feel like this is a joint lesson that I learned from my parents.

They, I think they both exhibit this, but I would say the working hard is more from my dad

and how to not take work too seriously is from my mom.

So my dad started working for himself when I was really young,

like before kindergarten. And he was the only income earner at that time until my sister went to

kindergarten. And so I think it's kind of only as an adult raising a family that I realize how

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