Kim | Ōtāhuhu
“I liked the fact that we were outdoors. We played a lot of sport.
We had a bach, so we went to the beach every summer. Strict but not overly strict, and we walked to and from school. I suppose the freedom.
Each child is different, so I raised one that was naughty, and I’ve raised, the second one wasn’t naughty. Just compassion, I suppose, trying to understand. Never hit my children, ever, but they were disciplined. Gave them the best start in life. Best schools and yeah just, and parents that are together, as well.
We got married a couple of years ago. My husband and I got, we’ve been together for over 20 years and we decided to get married, and my son went to a Catholic school, and he said in his speech he said to us that, he’d been away to a retreat, a Catholic school retreat, and he said he was really proud of the fact that he was a minority, that both his parents were still together, and it made him proud. So, that really struck home.
I was born in Auckland and I went to school in Māngere Central, and then we moved to Whitianga when I was in high school, and I had to leave home when I was 17 to get to work. I suppose yeah, the outdoors again, yeah but both parents are still together.”
