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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I hate how people always blame the parents. Sometimes kids are terrible, sometimes parents are terrible.

Good parents can raise terrible kids, and terrible parents can raise good kids.

I think people like to blame the parents because they want to believe it won’t happen to them - that their kids will be helpful, generous, etc.

I have young kids and aging parents and my parents were great in a lot of way. Also awful in some ways. I love them a lot and will be there as they age. I am
Not sure if my siblings will or not, and it’s their personalities—we al agree that our parents were wonderful in some ways and terrible in others.[/quote]

And your kids too, will probably one day think you were wonderful in some ways and terrible in others.  All parents make mistakes.  All parents are fallible.  Some mistakes that are no big deal to one child are seen as huge character failings by another---just because of personalities.  The best we can hope for as parents is that the ratio of things we do well is much greater than the things we screw up in the eyes of our children once they reach adulthood.[/quote]

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