My Children Are Not My Best Friends
Have to be honest, haven’t really come across this issue yet, not even among friends, maybe our kids are too young, so we’re not there yet? My children are not my best friends and pretty sure that goes the same for my wife, she is not our childrens best friends. Seems to have been a topic that Huffpost has seen fit to write about, Well-Intentioned Parents Often Say This OneCommon Phrase — And It’s More Damaging Than You Realize. My children are so much more to me than my best friends, but oddly, also so much less.
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Relationships are complicated and we, as people often like to just lump everything together to try and make bigger ideas more simple. Mistake. I’m actually quite happy I read this story and feel maybe every parent should too to remind ourselves. “Kids need their parents to be their parents. They need [their parents] to be the safe, guiding adults in their lives, not their peers. And when those lines get blurred, it makes it harder to set boundaries and actually parent well,”
