Are you a better parent that your parent was?

Question

I know I am, I play with my kids and love them unconditionally...Do you do a good job parenting?

and I don't abuse my kids..emotionally, physically...

I hope you realize how fortunate you are to have the better parents

Answer 1

I do an awesome job. But I learned from the best.

The only way I am doing better is that I spend more one on one time with my girls-understandable since I only have 2 while my parents had 6 kids!

Answer 2

I don't know if better or worse is the right way to categorize that. I know I'm different because I live in a different society. I think my parents had it a little easier than me, because my mom got to be a stay at home mom, and it just seems like you didn't constantly worry about whether or not there was a pedophile on every corner when I was a kid. I think I'm different, that's all. It would be hard to live up to my parent's example. They were and still are wonderful parents!

Answer 3

I don't think I'm better, just different. My parents did what they thought was right. Both my parents worked their butts off so we could have a nice house and never want for anything. Both of my parents came from poor families and they did very well for themsleves. As a result of them working all the time, my sister and I were independant. As an adult I have had a hard time letting that go and allowing my husband to help me with things around the house, relying on him. As a parent myself I am VERY invoved with my 9 yr old's education and after school activities. (my parents didn't have the time) I just had a conversation about this with my Dad a week ago because my husband travels a lot for work because we have businesses all over north America. My Dad says he wishes he would have been able to spend more time with us. I told him not to dwell on the past and to spend as much time as possible withus now.

Answer 4

In some ways. I think my parents did a great job raising me to be pretty down to earth( we were a pretty high profile family, but my parents did a great job keeping us down to earth and understanding that everything we have could be taken away in a heartbeat), but I think the mistakes that my parents made were in spending time with my siblings and I. We constantly had a nanny growing up, and so now my husband and I made a vow to not let the kids go to daycare, or hire a nanny, etc.
Basically, I think my parents did great. However, I definately think that I spend more time with my children.

Answer 5

I am the mother of ten biological children and two others that is a step-son and my niece that I raise. I 'd like to think that I am the product of the parenting that was given me. I had a wonderful childhood and my parents was so in-tuned to us that we were sheltered from outside influence until adolescence stage. We came from a poorer class family but we did not know it. My mom and dad had 15 of us but one passed away. We went somewhere every summer. We got what we needed and sometimes what we wanted. Our daddy was a real man and he knew how to separate work from play, and vs. verse. I enjoyed being a child! I doted on my parents.

Answer 6

I am a better parent by far than my mom was. My grandparents raised me and I never knew what it was like to have a mom. I vowed that all the thing syou love about your mom and would expect her to be is what I am going to be to my daughter and son. I spend as much time as possible with them and they know that no matter what I will always love them. My gma does not talk to me now and she was supposed to be my mom. My children will never go through that and never know what it is like to feel alone. My grandpa died when I was 14 so I took on the responsibility of the house while gma worked. My daughter will never know what that is like so yeah I am a better mom simply because I am a real MOM.

Answer 7

I was born to be a mother, and my husband has supprised me every day as being the best father I have ever known.

The goal is always to have your children be better than you. Its hard for me, considered I had the best parents ever, but I know I do a better job than my mom. She started out as a flakey worried 18 year old, but iam 23 and a little more grounded mentally. lol.

I know Iam a good mom, because I have an excellent son, and because I know how to take advice and grow in my skills.

Answer 8

ide say i am a better parent then my mom was to me, but at the same time i havent had to go threw the same things my mom has growing up either. rather then get mad or look down on her parenting, ide prefer to say i learnt from her mistakes., and personally i hope my daughter is a better parent then i am, i hope she leans like me, to take what was good, and learn from my mistakes.
im not going to publish everything i think my mother may or may not have done wrong while i wzas growing up, but i am happy she is a better grandmother then she was a mother, partly due to she isnt the one raiseing my daughter so she doesnt have to worry about disciplin, or what my daughter is doing wrong, but let me handle it.
my mother wasnt the greatest mother in the world, no one truely is, but she is a much better grand mother then i ever thought she would be, and she is becomeing a better mom to me now then she was back then.

Answer 9

Yes! My dad was an alcoholic, and my mom put up with his abuse. When I was young, my love was purchased by my dad, meaning he would buy me stuff instead of showing me love. My mom did the best she could, but I will never forget...on my 6th birthday, she asked me what I wanted, and I told her to divorce my dad. I had such a stressful childhood. It wasn't good at all. Like I said, my mom did what she could for us. I, on the other hand, show my child love. I do not put him down. I spend a lot of time with him. I help him learn, instead of criticizing every move he makes. I am thankful to have a loving and understanding husband who makes raising a child fun.

Answer 10

Well i think u are trying to do what ur parents didnt do when u were little. I will try to do the same with my kid because i feel i didnt get much affection from my dad since he was out of coutry most of the time. You are trying the parent that u probably never had.