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Since the topic came up, do you feel you were too harsh with your child as a child?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 623381" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Cedar, that was me too. I so relate.</p><p></p><p>I was the one who drove all the k ids to baseball practice while the other moms were working. They hung at my house. I fed them. They called me mom.</p><p></p><p>Funny this is, they were more respectful to their parents then 36 was to me a nd my ex, even back then.</p><p></p><p>Maybe kids respect you less if you make your life about them? I can't say. Just pointing out what happened. Scott also would say disrespectful things such as we needed to manage our money better (this from a nine year old) and that our house wasn't nice enough (hmmmmm...everyone seemed to like it but him) etc. He did not yell at us, but he was disrespectful in other ways. The only one who acted respectful was Julie, and things were harder for her since ex and I divorced while she was still eight and I had to work full time for a few years. </p><p></p><p>I remember hearing Scott on the phone to his friends. I was in the room next door and he didn't know I could hear him. He said, "My mom is TOO nice." He didn't say it in a complimentary way. </p><p></p><p>Yet I was pretty much the same after I divorced and my husband I adopted Sonic and Jumper and both of those children grew up to be really wonderful young adults. Is there really any rules that work for all children? Nope. </p><p></p><p>But there has been talk that maybe we were too hard on our kids. I have a feeling it was the opposite in many cases in our group. Maybe we tried too hard to be good moms...is that a bad thing?? I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 623381, member: 1550"] Cedar, that was me too. I so relate. I was the one who drove all the k ids to baseball practice while the other moms were working. They hung at my house. I fed them. They called me mom. Funny this is, they were more respectful to their parents then 36 was to me a nd my ex, even back then. Maybe kids respect you less if you make your life about them? I can't say. Just pointing out what happened. Scott also would say disrespectful things such as we needed to manage our money better (this from a nine year old) and that our house wasn't nice enough (hmmmmm...everyone seemed to like it but him) etc. He did not yell at us, but he was disrespectful in other ways. The only one who acted respectful was Julie, and things were harder for her since ex and I divorced while she was still eight and I had to work full time for a few years. I remember hearing Scott on the phone to his friends. I was in the room next door and he didn't know I could hear him. He said, "My mom is TOO nice." He didn't say it in a complimentary way. Yet I was pretty much the same after I divorced and my husband I adopted Sonic and Jumper and both of those children grew up to be really wonderful young adults. Is there really any rules that work for all children? Nope. But there has been talk that maybe we were too hard on our kids. I have a feeling it was the opposite in many cases in our group. Maybe we tried too hard to be good moms...is that a bad thing?? I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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