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09-12-2024, 12:38 PM | Topic Starter |
Grand champ
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For those with children: Do you think you’re a better parent than your parents were?
Discuss
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09-12-2024, 12:57 PM | #2 |
MER
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Colorado
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4X better
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09-12-2024, 01:00 PM | #3 |
Grand champ
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09-12-2024, 01:03 PM | #4 |
MER
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Location: Colorado
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09-12-2024, 01:05 PM | #5 |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
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Location: My house
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09-12-2024, 12:58 PM | #6 |
Life is changing..
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: NW Missouri
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My child isn't old enough for me to judge that yet.
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09-12-2024, 01:03 PM | #7 |
Grand champ
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Same here, but I still wonder everyday.
Figure there are a lot of CPers who have been doing it long enough to have a better idea. Might be a good opportunity to brag about their parents or themselves. Or maybe a good time for introspection on how to be better. |
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09-12-2024, 01:13 PM | #8 |
MVP
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This will sound like an old man, but limit their screen time, punish them every time they break the rules, and don't turn them into narcissists by telling them how great they are 24/7.
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09-12-2024, 01:17 PM | #9 | |
Supporter
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Line out the rules ahead of time, and the punishment that comes with it. When they decide to break the rules they will already know what's coming. Screen time has a HUGE effect on how my kids act. Right again. To answer the OP, my parents were awesome. I hope I'm doing as well as they did raising me and my brothers. |
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09-12-2024, 01:16 PM | #10 |
Dirty Bit
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09-12-2024, 12:58 PM | #11 |
Banned
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In b4 off to DC
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09-12-2024, 12:59 PM | #12 |
Grand champ
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09-12-2024, 01:01 PM | #13 |
MER
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Colorado
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I was a latchkey kid with a bus pass for all of L.A. county.
No phones, no pagers. It was just different. |
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09-12-2024, 01:03 PM | #14 |
MVP
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Definitely, considering I had to try to offset the damage being done by their other parent in addition to the normal parenting stuff.
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09-12-2024, 01:05 PM | #15 |
MER
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Colorado
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My kids dad killed himself while they were in the next room.
I had it good as a kid. |
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