S/O. What’s the worst thing you do as a parent?
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Anonymous
| I’m a horrible cook and worse baker. DH does most of the cooking and when I try I feel sorry for my kids. |
Anonymous
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I’m too strict sometimes.
I spend too much time on my phone. |
Anonymous
| I get exasperated with my ADHD kid much too frequently. |
Anonymous
The worst thing? |
Anonymous
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I have high expectations for my child and I know that sometimes that is hard on her.
My parents had no expectations for me and so I find it hard to empathize sometimes - my child has opportunities and support I only dreamed of. But I'm aware that there can be a fine line between supporting and pushing too hard. |
Anonymous
| Slept with their coach |
Anonymous
| Focus too much on work and my own life. Or is that supposed to be inspirational / motivational? I don't know... Feels like it sucks, but that's real life, right? |
Anonymous
Why is that bad? Your children are being fed, who cares who cooks? |
Anonymous
| I'm not super involved. I'm not in the Parenting Olympics a lot of other parents seem to be in. I'm absolutely the parent who takes them to a park, says "Stay where I can see you," and plops down on a bench playing on my phone. I'm just not super into kids. |
Anonymous
| On my phone too much. |
Anonymous
| Have really high expectations for them. |
Anonymous
| I yell a lot. When my kids are misbehaving and not listening to correction, I just resort to yelling. I hate it and I want to stop but I just keep giving in to yelling. |
Anonymous
+1. Also, in the early years I had a lot of anger. I have it under control now but I wish I'd had it under control then. |
Anonymous
+100 anger (also has gotten better, but still get overwhelmed and then get snappy).... & phone. It's good to write this out. Helps renew resolutions for tomorrow! |
Anonymous
| I sometime get anxious about them. This in turn makes them irritable and anxious. |