Honestly? First, teaching me programming and about electronics and computers. I was a girl born in 1988 so that wasn't a given, and I've both dodged a lot of bu

Honestly? First, teaching me programming and about electronics and computers. I was a girl born in 1988 so that wasn't a given, and I've both dodged a lot of bullets and have a lot of skills that turned out to be very useful. (E.G My dad started teaching me about relational databases as a kid bc he was an accountant and used them - this was way before they were used to store information for web apps.) Second, discussing current events and politics from multiple perspectives/teaching me to exist in spaces with people who disagree with me. My family members are all over the map politically. Third, consequence based rules. I didn't have a curfew, but I did have provisions that I would have one if I either a.) started missing school/work or b.) didn't arrange my logistics and needed to wake up parents to come drive me home. The rules always had REASONS. (On the other hand, other authority figures weren't fans of this...)