Nearly every parent I know is trying—hoping—to do better. Fair enough. That’s a start.
An awful lot of parents feel sad and guilty for raising children when the assignment was to raise adults; feel embarrassed by the side-looks they sense from their parents; feel afraid of the consequences of our cultural (and perhaps personal) failures. No one set out to screw this up. Nearly every parent I know is trying—hoping—to do better.
Fair enough. That’s a start.
from Raising Adults by Jim Hancock