Page 7 - Perfect Parents, Perfect Children, and Other Fairy Tales

when it was due and think we probably should have
helped them more with it.

We worry about how many chores to give them.
We worry about this opportunity or those lessons

and wonder if we should have decided to allow
them certain experiences. We feel guilty if we think
later that we should have done something

differently.

Then we think about the discipline. Was I too

strong? Was I too lenient and not consistent? Was
that battle worth fighting?

No, there are no perfect parents. They don’t exist.
And much of that is because perfect children don’t

exist, although some grandparents would argue that
subject.

There is only one way a person is not going to
make mistakes in parenting, and that is to not be a
parent.

I have said before that if you are going to be

working with other people in any situation,
someone is going to get offended somewhere along
the line. It’s just going to happen. If a person is

determined that they will never offend or irritate
anyone, they will have to live the life of a hermit.

I am not implying that everything we do is
offensive. That is far from the truth. But things

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