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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You have really young kids and are comparing your parenting of toddlers to her parenting of tweens/teens. I’m sure you’ll make your own mistakes.

Becoming a mom has given me so much sympathy for my parents’ mistakes. This stuff is hard and their parents didn’t give them much to work with.[/quote]

Now that my kids are teens, I realize how hard it is to parent teens.  I'm trying my best, but I stink it up and fail on a daily basis -- and that is after years of therapy for family of origin issues.  I'm sure my daughters will have their own complaints and will need to hash things out in therapy.[/quote]

+1 You can be a really great parent for literally years, and then when your oldest hits the horrible teen stage, it all goes to hell. They don't care about all the Christmases you made special for them, or the sacrifices you made, or the times you stood up for them to teachers or bullies on the school bus. They just think you suck. And that's the memory they take with them into adulthood.[/quote]

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