Originally Posted by bianc850a
If you try to be the perfect parent and always make the perfect decisions you only teach them that THEY need to be perfect (which is obviously an unreasonable standard).
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So we make mistakes, we get up and try another way.
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Our kids cannot ask for more than our best.

These statments and acs's mom's comment sum up my parenting philosophy in a nutshell.

Kriston