I hope so. I love my mom very much now that I’m an adult. But as a teen, I was constantly butting heads with her while I was trying to “crawl out of the closet” she kept me in. So far I feel like I’m doing better… but time will tell. There are a lot of circumstances as to why my mom had me tucked under her wing so tight… those are the same circumstances that make things difficult for me when making decisions with my girls, and what I want to allow them to do. I’m afraid I’ve got pretty big wings myself.

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whats the point of this question???

Heck yes!!!! I am very patient, I love my children and I do not abuse them. That is how I am different from my mother.

i KNOW im doing a better job. i dont neglect my kids, i dont abuse them either

Yes, my mom was way too emotional. I don’t stoop to my kid’s level. I always remember I am an adult.

I would say not better just different. My mom was a great mom, but she did things that we now know not to do with children. She always did what was best for us, and I’ll do the same for my kids. I figure that my sister and I both turned out pretty well despite a few bumps along the way, and I hope that my daughter will too.

Yes. I leaned from her, the things she did right I plan to do with my daughter and the things I wish were different in my childhood I plan to make sure those things don’t happen in hers. I learned what to be and what not to be from my mom and my daughter will do the same for her kids. We take what we need from our childhood and discard the things we don’t.

Yes and I know for a fact, because my own mother told me!

Seriously. She sat me down one day and said you are a better mom than I could ever be and I’m sorry. We cried. She didn’t need to be sorry, I turned out just fine! I told her she must have done something right in order for me to become a better mom than her…awwwww :*(

No. My mother and I are both good at parenting. She had issues to deal with that I never will and I’m grateful for that. We both have very different approaches though, I will say that much.

Absolutely!
I mean I loved my mother and we were very close friends, but not until I was an adult. Prior to that time my mother was very closed and never really talked to us kids nor did she do anything except play the silent, victim who put up with living as a door mat and mistreated wife for 25+ years, couldn’t speak an opinion and wasn’t allowed to speak her mind or be validated and appreciated as a wife.

I am no perfect mother by a long shot – but my kids know they are loved and that they can TALK to me about ANYTHING in the world without fear of criticism and they know they are loved unconditionally and that I will be there for them no matter what!