Don’t treat your kids like mini-you’s. The hardest thing not to do as a parent is not to see yourself in your kids and raise them how you wish you were raised. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t fix the mistakes that your parents made. What I am saying is that you should try to make up for the mistakes that you made with how you want your kids to act.
If you were a less than stellar citizen, don’t raise your kids like less than stellar citizens. You are the way you are because of the way you were raised and how you reacted to that. Kids don’t just turn out bad so you don’t have to treat them in that manner.
If you weren’t a good student, don’t assume that you have to be extra hard on your kids because you assume they will be bad students also.
You need to wait and see what kind of kids you have and raise them accordingly. Yes, you should have standards and morals that you show your family but how you interact with them and teach them should depend on what kind of person they are.
You want to help them become the best person they can be. In my opinion, kids are already the people that they will turn out to be when they are adults when they’re born. It’s just our job as parents not to mess it up.
