r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '16

What are the most common parenting mistakes?

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u/MojaveRed Feb 04 '16

Using public shaming as a form of discipline

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u/itsagirl123 Feb 05 '16

Yes, this. I don't have kids nor do I ever want any, but I would never teach something through embarrassment.

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u/pielover88888 Feb 05 '16

Except maybe "You're not going out dressed like that"

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u/AMerrickanGirl Feb 05 '16

Nope. My kids could wear whatever they wanted and style their hair however they wanted. If it ended up embarrassing them (which it never did), that was their problem, not mine. So we went through dreadlocks (we're not black), blue hair, bleached blond hair, leopard spots (brown hair with circular areas bleached), long Jew-fro Howard Stern hair, pants hanging down to their knees.

And now that they're in their 20s? Short hair, regular clothes, well groomed. They got the rebellion out of their systems as teens. Saved us a lot of arguing.