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I Would Never Raise My Child Like That

She had all kinds of suggestions. I was raising my children incorrectly. She could not stop giving me ideas. She had never had children of her own, but I pretended to listen. My children groaned when they saw her coming. Made themselves scarce, which gave me a little break. Ten years later when she had her own children she apologized for all of those "I would never.'s" because she told me that she has now.

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Date: 4/13/2021 10:07:00 AM
How often this is the case. Advice--good and bad--is readily available until one needs some advice oneself.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/13/2021 12:34:00 PM
My girlfriend said it "horrified" her how bossy she had been with me after she had her own children and realized it is not the same as watching others do it.

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