PARENTING #101 You Parent as You Were Parented!

Would like to hear something really scary? You will tend to parent as you were parented. Now go ahead and scream and get it out of your system. That’s right, and a little more screaming, and that should do it. Yes, what you received is generally speaking, what you have to give. And give it you will. This is why and how really good parenting tends to pass on through the generations and why and how really bad parenting also dominates in families.

This also explains why so many people wake up in their 20s and 30s saying to their own dis- belief: “I have become my mom!” “I have become my dad!”

“I swore I would never do to my kids what was done to me, but now I hear myself say things and see myself do things that I never thought I’d see or hear. What’s going on? I don’t understand why I act as I do or get so irritated!”