What do you wish your parents did differently?

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Interested now I'm a mother.

I wish my mum didn't call me dramatic all my life. Really I was just anxious, and these were my feelings. It's left me unable to talk about my problems now

Not thought that they could handle being parents to two children (both mistakes) by age 15/17. Then decided to have another one locking us into a childhood of poverty, chaos and misery They should have given us up for adoption to proper adults who had the income and maturity to raise children.

My DM is still deluded that she should get a medal for the 'sacrifices' she made. What I remember is a self-absorbed promiscuous and neglectful nightmare who played favourite with golden child son and scapegoated and parentified her middle child (me). Third child was later abandoned for one of her boyfriends.

Some people shouldn't be parents. My family are completely estranged from each other. The upside is therapy has done wonders for me and I am a good enough (not perfect) parent to my own child.