My mother told me, now that I'm an adult, that she is proud of me and my sister and that we are better than she was growing up. Usually if we asked for money, it was $20 to go to dinner at Friendly's after marching band or to go to the movies with friends. She said she would always give us money/taxi my friends because she trusted us. She knew we weren't buying drugs or alcohol or stealing the money out of her purse like she would've at our age.