Parenting - Just Like Mom?

[Anonymous]

My mom had some great attributes and had some great parenting skills. On the one hand. And then there were things that she was not very good at. I do find myself working really hard at Christmas to make traditions because my mom was great at it and I want my kids to have wonderful memories just like I do. But, I find myself trying to be better at the day to day life, because my mom was not very good at it unless it involved driving us from one place to another. And, I am not that great at Thanksgiving because we don't love events that revolve around cooking and eating food. This is a topic that I think a lot about. Three of the five of us kids of my parents feel like we had a genuinely good childhood. Not great, but genuinely good. But, there are the other two. If I can help it, I don't want any of my kids to feel like my two brothers do.