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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 171830" data-attributes="member: 805"><p>You have touched on something that I was actually discussing, at length, with easy child's boyfriend yesterday. We got into this deep discussion about how those that pass through our lives, positively or negatively, leave some imprint. However, it is up to us to decide what to do with that imprint.</p><p> </p><p>He had a mother who was a drug addict and prostitute; a mother who basically walked out on him at two and didn't look back until she was dying of aids 15 years later.</p><p> </p><p>I can tell you, with perfect clarity, that I made a deliberate decision to parent different than my mother. I did not want to parent my children as she parented me (us, but particularly me). She had some baggage from her mother than I was forced to pay for. No way was I doing the same with my children.</p><p> </p><p>Why was I able to stop the cycle but she was not?</p><p> </p><p>That is the question pondered in "Man's Search for Meaning?"; I gave easy child's boyfriend my copy, now I'll have to get a used one through Amazon!</p><p> </p><p>What makes two people go through the same circumstance but react so differently?</p><p> </p><p>We are not talking about mental disorders or inherited diseases. We are taking about the turns you choose to take in your life and what choices you make as a result of those turns.</p><p> </p><p>Parenting is one of those areas where we make a choice. I beleive there are very few people who don't have a choice as to how they parent.</p><p> </p><p>Sharon</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 171830, member: 805"] You have touched on something that I was actually discussing, at length, with easy child's boyfriend yesterday. We got into this deep discussion about how those that pass through our lives, positively or negatively, leave some imprint. However, it is up to us to decide what to do with that imprint. He had a mother who was a drug addict and prostitute; a mother who basically walked out on him at two and didn't look back until she was dying of aids 15 years later. I can tell you, with perfect clarity, that I made a deliberate decision to parent different than my mother. I did not want to parent my children as she parented me (us, but particularly me). She had some baggage from her mother than I was forced to pay for. No way was I doing the same with my children. Why was I able to stop the cycle but she was not? That is the question pondered in "Man's Search for Meaning?"; I gave easy child's boyfriend my copy, now I'll have to get a used one through Amazon! What makes two people go through the same circumstance but react so differently? We are not talking about mental disorders or inherited diseases. We are taking about the turns you choose to take in your life and what choices you make as a result of those turns. Parenting is one of those areas where we make a choice. I beleive there are very few people who don't have a choice as to how they parent. Sharon [/QUOTE]
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