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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 414283"><p>kimono,</p><p></p><p>You may have done nothing wrong! Really!! I think we as parents live under this fallacy that if we are good parents our kids will be good and responsible kids. That just is not always true. I think kids are affected by both nature and nurture. We have no control over what genetics they were born with, what their temperament was they were born with. As parents we can only work with what we have... and all kids are different and there is no manual to tell us what to do when things for whatever reason do not go well. I wish parents out in the real world talked about their struggles more easily.... I think it is often something people don't talk about because most people want other people to think their kids are wonderful and of course that means the parents are wonderful. The truth is sometimes good parents have troubled kids.... and sometimes bad parents have really good kids. Society draws a correlation between the behavior of parents and kids but there isn't always one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 414283"] kimono, You may have done nothing wrong! Really!! I think we as parents live under this fallacy that if we are good parents our kids will be good and responsible kids. That just is not always true. I think kids are affected by both nature and nurture. We have no control over what genetics they were born with, what their temperament was they were born with. As parents we can only work with what we have... and all kids are different and there is no manual to tell us what to do when things for whatever reason do not go well. I wish parents out in the real world talked about their struggles more easily.... I think it is often something people don't talk about because most people want other people to think their kids are wonderful and of course that means the parents are wonderful. The truth is sometimes good parents have troubled kids.... and sometimes bad parents have really good kids. Society draws a correlation between the behavior of parents and kids but there isn't always one. [/QUOTE]
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