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<blockquote data-quote="Tanya M" data-source="post: 658919" data-attributes="member: 18516"><p>I will forever be grateful to my parents for teaching me life skills. I was pretty fortunate growing up. My mom was a stay at home mom and we also had a house keeper that came in once a week but that did not mean that my sisters and I got off scott free without doing chores. We learned and helped keep the bathrooms clean, we shared in meal preparation, mowed the lawn, vacuumed, dusted, did our own laundry and how to balance a check book.</p><p>My husband also was taught good life skills.</p><p>With our son we taught him the same way we were taught and in the early years he was eager and willing to participate in household chores. When he turned 12 was when the attitude started, the whining and complaining. He would compare himself to his friends, expressing to husband and me how his friends didn't have to do chores. It was a constant battle with him.</p><p>I can see how some parents would "hover" trying to make sure little Johnny was staying on task but I can see how that can backfire too.</p><p>We all know there is no guarantee how a child will turn out. You can raise them with morals and values, teach them life skills and they turn into a Difficult Child and you can have a child that is raised with no boundaries or rules ever and they thrive. I do think a helicopter parent will have a much harder time detaching if their child turns into a Difficult Child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanya M, post: 658919, member: 18516"] I will forever be grateful to my parents for teaching me life skills. I was pretty fortunate growing up. My mom was a stay at home mom and we also had a house keeper that came in once a week but that did not mean that my sisters and I got off scott free without doing chores. We learned and helped keep the bathrooms clean, we shared in meal preparation, mowed the lawn, vacuumed, dusted, did our own laundry and how to balance a check book. My husband also was taught good life skills. With our son we taught him the same way we were taught and in the early years he was eager and willing to participate in household chores. When he turned 12 was when the attitude started, the whining and complaining. He would compare himself to his friends, expressing to husband and me how his friends didn't have to do chores. It was a constant battle with him. I can see how some parents would "hover" trying to make sure little Johnny was staying on task but I can see how that can backfire too. We all know there is no guarantee how a child will turn out. You can raise them with morals and values, teach them life skills and they turn into a Difficult Child and you can have a child that is raised with no boundaries or rules ever and they thrive. I do think a helicopter parent will have a much harder time detaching if their child turns into a Difficult Child. [/QUOTE]
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