How do you show your appreciation..?

There are so many people who have lost a parent or doesn't even have parents. My family currently is low on money and I feel terrible because they just bought me and my brother a new bedroom set which was about $600 each I believe so in total it was about $1,200. They didn't buy it JUST BECAUSE. It was because we always had hand-me-down beds from our aunts and uncles who used to live with us. I do love my parents a lot, and I'm glad to have them. I'm very determined to get my own job as well to be able to buy my own things so they won't have to spend so much on me and giving me so much allowance.

What I do out of appreciation? I keep my room clean and treat my bedroom well showing that I am glad they bought this for me and I cherish it. I try my best not to disrespect, but I have a bad habit of "talking back" which is seen as disrespectful.

My parents and I do get into arguments and fights but at the end of the day I truly am grateful for them.

What about you?

When I was 18 months my mom took me to Ohio because of the biggest fight ever with my dad. Ever since then it's been kinda depressing. I went back and forth to America to Canada. America for school and a tiny tiny bit of the summer. I go to Canada for the summer. Until I was 7, that is.
The boarder wouldn't let me cross over to America again because I've been in America for over 6 months too many times for school, because I didn't have proof I was an American Citizen. Then for the past 2 years (Almost 3) I've been stuck here with my drunk smoking dad. Because he was almost always drunk and smoking, I decided to live my life in the computer.

I've made 5 friends but with 2 I have drama issues. And this is one of my families.

every 1 or 2 months we end up in a fight..it could be from simple things like taking a bath or washing my hair to big things like moving to the other side of the country for 2/3 years.

Until I was 8 I have never realized what my dad has been doing. I ask him when he orders from an alcohol shop, "What's in that brown bag?" He replies "A drink".
I try to keep the Conversation going by asking "What type of drink?"
And then he replies "Water." When I see him putting it in his Pepsi I ask "What did you put in your drink? It didn't look like water" With a rushing reply trying to not let me know he says "Uhh nothing. Just pepsi, ok?" Then in the middle of the night I wake up to him yelling at a card game or playing stupid songs that not even HE likes when he isn't drunk.

I show my appreciation to my mom..and sometimes my dad. But not a lot. I try to act nice by saying: Could I have like 1 more minute to do this? Then I promise I'll get off, ASAP!
Then he says: NO! NOW TURN THE FU------ COMPUTER OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But my mom would let me save something or say goodbye. With my mom I love her and show a lot of appreciation. Even though she smokes she doesn't drink, which I'm proud about.
Sorry that half of this had nothing to do with appreciation. It just doesn't make sense if you don't know what happens..

I grew up into a low income family.Sometimes I didn't have food to eat. My childhood wasn't always full of smiles. I had to suffer alot. When I was young, I was saw my father drunk all the time and my mom always got in fights with him. We barely had money cause of him. At nights, I had to hear him throw up which was -REPORT ME I SWORE- for me. Once I had a dream that he actually got out of control and attack my family. The fights happened like everyday and I got tired of it. They always fight over the damn stupid things. Even I have to get in the conversation and yell at them. They just stop and take it some place else cause they don't wanna see their youngest child fighting. During that time, I pretty much understood everything. My mom always cried because of how we live. I calmed her down cause nobody wanted to even though my mom judges me in everything. I don't to see her suffer anymore. Sometimes I think cause of this it caused my kypohsis. Now, My father is sending me money from Florida and mom is little bit happier. I don't know how. We're still in the same situation. Nowadays, I barely speak to my father. And I might live with my father. I don't want that to happen.

I show appreciation to my parents especially to my mom is to give good grades and do everything what she says. I sometimes do her breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I do drawings or letters for her. I make or buy presents for my mom. There's 1 thing I haven't done is to get a degree in medicine and to show her that I finally did it.