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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No “like mother like daughter” crap.  Your daughter is her own person with her own interests and passions.  She is not a reflection of you.

Honor her relationships (you don’t have to love her friends, grandmother, nanny or teacher) but honor fully that she does love them.

Accept that she is her person first and your child second.

These three things gave me a wonderful relationship with my own mother and now my adult daughter.

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DP. This is key in my opinion.

My mother has 3 daughters, and we are very different from each other. My mother never once compared us to each other. We were three separate individuals, and we are very different from her as well.
She was far from perfect but you could see that she tried very hard(she still makes adjustments to this day and we are all in our mid -lae 30s) to meet us where we are, based on our personalities, strengths and weaknesses.

I have two completely different girls, and my aim is to take them as they are. One is very sensitive, and the other very stubborn. I hope to never compare them to each other, and to love them and empathize with them just the way they are while instilling good values in them.[/quote]

This is wonderful![/quote]

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