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[quote=Anonymous]I can’t remember a time when my parents ever apologized for things like losing their temper, forgetting important things, or pushing me into situations I wasn’t comfortable with.

On the other hand, I have made it a regular practice with my own child.

Obviously there’s a generational divide at play here, but my parents were also particularly authoritarian.

I just thought it was well established at this point that the infallible parent model is not a good one.  Some posters here seem to have missed the memo.

Monkey see monkey do and all that. If you want to raise compassionate, accountable adults…you have to act that way with your kids.  So many issues with adult “children” seem to stem from rigid parents clinging to authority like dictators who can never admit fault. It’s wild.

Even wilder is that I probably learned more about how to be a decent human from working for a really  great boss for the last 20 years.  Lucky to have found a role model in an unlikely place.  But, I imagine my life would look very different today if I’d learned these lessons earlier.[/quote]

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