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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of us have young kids and for me, it’s been incredibly revealing. I’m able to actually identify and articulate what my parents did wrong. Similar to the PP, I grew up in a nice, UMC family but there was a lot that is very messed up. Now that I have young kids I can’t imagine treating children the way I was treated. [/quote]

This happened to me too but as my kids got older it faded. I began to understand my parents frustrations, fears they must have had, stressors. Even worse in hindsight I actually agree with some of my parents criticisms of me. I realize they started out trying to be nice and gentle but after years of no change well it devolved in to outright frustration and criticism.

I can pretend they should have been better than human and never let that happen but that is fairy tale thinking.

I lot of their parenting was of the day and I can appreciate now how parenting is reflective of the group of people and parents you surround yourself why. 
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