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Ha… same childhood experience same parenting outcome. My mum used to say, “because why is a crooked letter and a Is no better” it infuriated me. So I promised myself that I’d always give clear and detailed explanations to my kids for everything they ever asked about… they stopped asking pretty quickly 🤣 … maybe clear and ‘concise’ not ‘detailed’ was the correct way to go. 🤷‍♀️
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Brisket 2y ago

I've always tried not to go to the other extreme of my parents approach. Some patterns & cycles are hard to break though.

You do your best & iterate as you're going.

You gotta have some shit to work out later in life though, right? 🤣

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Turtlesallthewaydown⚡️ 2y ago

🤣yeah, the parenting bits I screw up, I figure are either helping my kids build resilience or giving their screwed adult selves someone to blame or better still something to work on.

I wouldn’t be half the person I am today if my parents had been great parents.

I sometimes wonder if trying to be a great parent is doing my kids a disservice.

Hard to say as the bad parenting model either makes or breaks the kids. It made me but it broke my brothers.

I think it could make my daughter even more awesome but it could break my son… but then again, if my hubby and I were lousy parents it could provide an opportunity for my son to step up and shine.