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[quote=Anonymous]I agree it’s hard. It also makes me grieve my own childhood in ways I never did before having a kid because I just blocked out a lot of my childhood then. But now when I’m working hard to be the parent my kid needs (and mostly succeeding though yes, we’re all imperfect), I wind up thinking if all the times when my parents were at their worst with me, and all the stuff (affection, support) I didn’t get as a kid. There is a therapy concept called “reparenting” that addresses this. I recommend it. The idea is to be the parent to yourself you needed but didn’t have. You’ve already started the process of you are breaking the chain of dysfunction with your own kids.[/quote]
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