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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve never hit my kids. I don’t yell at my kids very often. I don’t drink and drive. I don’t drink too much. I don’t lie or gaslight. When I make a mistake with my kids, I sincerely apologize, and I do my best not to make that same mistake again. I don’t parenting them, I don’t pit them against each other.

I’m not perfect. At all. It’s just hard sometimes, because it feels like I never had a parent holding themselves in check for me; my parents never apologized to me. They did all of the above to me.

It just feels like, it’s hard to always hold myself back from bad parenting behavior, because no one ever held back on me when I was just a kid. It’s hard. Any advice?[/quote]

Raising kids is extremely hard no matter your relationship with your own parents. You can’t blame your parents for your own shortcomings. That train has left the station years ago. Grow up.[/quote]

Oh, we found the parent who never apologizes to her kids…or maybe you hit them, or drink too much. Whatever it is that you don’t like about yourself from the OP’s post, there’s still time to change it. Good luck.[/quote]

That is the poster who comes into any thread involving family dysfunction and derails it by minimizing others' pain, telling them to grow up, forgive, "they were probably abused, too", "you had it better than them", "move on", etc.. Stay tuned for more whack-a-doo thread derailment...[/quote]

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