Parents: true?
20 years ago I yelled, "Get back in here and put on a hat and gloves!"
A little later, after my daughter had arrived at high school, my new-mother neighbor came over to lecture me about expressing anger.
10+ years later when that same (former) neighbor had tween-age kids, she shared with a mutual friend that she had been way too judgmental at that time.
But…
Now my daughter is 35 and has 2 babies:
She has a gazillion times better parenting skills than I ever had with her or her older sisters.
She will NOT be yelling at them to put on their hats and gloves, or, if she does, she will later talk calmly to them about how she had failed to model good communication skills.
So: There is hope for the future?
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