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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your AC child express appreciation for your parenting? I don't expect constant praise of course. It was a labor of love, but I guess I hoped that by her age (recent college grad) she would start to appreciate the family she has. The sacrifices that have been made. The quality of life we have given her. She just seems to take it all for granted, which is a little disappointing. [/quote]

Is it, though?   I see it as a mark of success that my kids believe that every family is normal, emotionally calm and loving.  Why would I want them to know the hell I went through to give it to them?  The whole point was to shield them from that hard stuff.   (And if you did shield them from it, it isn’t their fault that they didn’t know about it.)[/quote]

Same. I was seriously in my 30s before I really understood the awful childhoods that some kids had. Abuse, addiction, divorce, abandonment, screaming. It sort of blew my mind. My children are little, but they don't even think criminals are real ("oh, they're all in jail") and my dd commented that she didn't understand how a classmate only had a single mom and not a dad. She cried herself to sleep when she realized that some people get divorced and don't love each other forever (she's seen waaaayyy too many disney movies!)

I didn't appreciate my parents as much until I had kids. I always loved them, but just didn't understand how unbelievably hard it is to raise children. [/quote]

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