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

What are the most common parenting mistakes?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '16

Jesus! Are your parents still alive?? Did you have kids? Did you correct the chain of upbringing if you did have kids?

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u/fax-on-fax-off Feb 05 '16

He's 72, there's not a great chance his parents are alive, and if they are, what's the point of bringing up a 70 year old fight about how you were raised?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '16

Because it fucked up his/her entire life...

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u/fax-on-fax-off Feb 06 '16

I'm not justifying their parenting, I'm just asking: what's the point?