Week 6: Prompt 2: Don't Embarrass the Family...

Prompt – Title your Blog Entry: Don’t Embarrass the Family.  Think about your family name (your last name).  Write your blog prompt over the following questions:  What does it mean to you?  What does it mean to your family?  Have you done anything that would embarrass your family?  How did it make you feel?  Why is it important to honor your family name?  (Be sure to answer all these questions).

The Madkins’ family name means a lot.  It means so much that I wrote a whole essay over it. LOL!

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It means quite a bit to me, so much so that I decided that everything I write will have the name Madkins in it.  The Madkins’ family name is a proud name filled with people who have done some great things, made some mistakes, but overall, we are some good people.  My father often reminds us that we are Madkins, and that we must succeed, so it means a lot to him, and therefore, it means a lot to me.  I’m glad my father taught us how important it was to be an upstanding member of the family because it made us (at least me) strive to always be the best and to live up to a standard of excellence that my father began.

I’ve done plenty to embarrass the Madkins’ name.  Most of the time it wasn’t on purpose, but it happened.  I often think… “What is my father going to say?” But in the end, I remember, I can make a mistake, but always own up to, and fix the issue so that it doesn’t happen again.

It’s important to honor my family’s name because it’s part of who I am, it’s what made me who I am.  I have to honor it to know who and where I came from.