Did your childhood affect the way you parent?

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So I proberly spoil my children too much so they always feel loved and wanted because I didn't always feel wanted as a child. I never wanted to be like my mother. I know that I let my kids get away with far too much. I was just wondering if anyone else feels like their childhood effects their parenting?

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that's how life works. there is no way you'd ever become a parent and completely wipe your childhood memory from existence. how do you think people learn how to be parents ...???? redundant question

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Pretty sure everyone's childhood  effects the way they raise their own  kuds.  That's just life😊

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Yes especially because of my husband and his past which was just horrible.

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I'm afraid of my upbringing affecting my parenting in the future. I saw a lot of abuse between my parents and I've dealt with violence from both of them. I'm still trying to unlearn a lot of it.

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Definitely. My dad is emotionally abusive and controlling. My daughter will never know what that is like.

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So someone told me something that made a lot of sense...we always try to give our kids what we never had as children and our parents try to give us what they never had. Example... say you were never hugged as a child or shown affection physically (obviously not talking about deadbeat parents). Chances are that your grandparents showed their affection to your parents by hugging and cuddling too much to the point to where it became smothering, so they tried not to do that to their children (you). In turn, you are doing to your children what your grandparents did. Which is why we almost always get along with our grandparents more. Because we're more like them! I don't know how much truth there is to this but it's certainly interesting.

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Mine does! I never want my daughter to have to deal with what I did with my father and his family! I have nothing to do with them and now she doesn't either. They don't exist and she gets all the love and everything

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Uh no. I was born extremely addicted to drugs and had "parents" who didn't want me. My "dads" parents adopted me and I'm thankful for it but it doesn't define me as a parent and plays no role in how I act as one.

Did your childhood affect the way you parent?

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