Poll: Do you think you would be a better parent than your own parents?

[Lilani]

Oh. My house is a bit different. We take the stupid approach. So I pretty much keep my door locked by default, because I hate having my door just opened without knocking. So it usually went *failed attempt to open door*, *knock*, *permission to enter*. Actually, now I've got everyone well trained to expect my door to be locked, and they just knock. It's only taken the better part of a decade.

My family never approaches boundary issues in any sane manner. My mother's solution to my brother eating food I had bought was to buy me a mini fridge.

Ha! That is very interesting Different families have different dynamics I guess, lol.

The closest thing we ever did to your fridge situation was giving me my own personal bathroom in our new house. My parents designed our new house, and it was built when I was about 12 years old. In our old house, for all those years, I had to get ready in the morning while sharing a bathroom with my brother. It was a tiny bathroom with one sink, so every morning was a battle of shoving and elbows to get the most sink-time. This, of course, lead to a lot of fights and unnecessary tension in the morning. So, in our new house, my parents solved the problem by giving me a toilet and vanity/sink that directly comes off my room. I never had to leave my room in the morning until breakfast, and in the evening I never had to leave unless I was hungry or wanted to do something not in my room. And my brother used the bathroom in the hallway Our mornings were finally peaceful (relatively speaking).

 

[s0p0g]

well, being better than my father won't be too hard, as he wasn't there, ever. and an alcoholic. and long time unemployed
i'm a trained nurse and currently studying human medicine

my mother did take care of my brother and me, though; still, she kind of failed (starting at 12-13ish) harder the older i got on an interpersonal level, to the point where it got quite ugly; so i'll go and try not to screw that part up

 

[DugMachine]

Well my mother was a nagging overbearing spawn of satan but I still love her and she raised me right (for the most part). My father, while he cared for me, had nothing in common with me and we were pretty much polar opposites. He enjoyed a lot of 'guy' stuff and I enjoyed gaming, being alone, and staying as far away from sports as I could. Plus he grew up in a different time where he was working by the age of 12 and I didn't get a good job until I was 20 or so.

So hopefully if I have children i'll try to interact and enjoy the things they like. Well that is if they're not into gaming n stuff like I already am. It's gonna be the future so I can only assume

 

[bigfatcarp93]

My dad'll be a tough act to follow, but I'll do my best.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Well it's not a hard thing to do, considering my parents.
They had even tougher parents though, so I guess I was lucky in that respect.

 

[Padwolf]

I will be a better parent. Mine have been fantastic, but there are certain things that have gone wrong and certain rules they have that don't really make sense. Nothing too bad, but some rules that were put in place that have caused me a lot of aggravation in my life needlessly.

 

[theheroofaction]

My parents are pretty good. I doubt I could do better.

Not because I would do the obvious Bad parent things, but because I would be horribly incompetent.

 

[0p3rati0n]

I hope to be on par with my parents. I'll probably do some things differently than what my parents did. As well as do some things worse than my parents. I might be better than my dad. Not that my dad was bad or anything. He just had a lot more obligations with work than my mom. My dad works all year long as well as work as a part time fireman. So he's not always around while my mom was always around.

 

[the darknees abyss]

I hope if I ever become like my mum or dad I'm screwed to have a kid like me is not a good thing

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

Oh wow, those are some of the most balanced poll results I've seen yet. :O

There are some things I wish my parents had done differently that I'd hope to correct, but I get the feeling they thought the same thing.

 

[penguindude42]

My father is an idiot and a creep.

Of course I'd be a better parent.

 

[Zakarath]

Depends on your measure of parenthood. Mine have been great, and kind, and all that, but I kind of have a feeling my child, if I ever have one, would be forged in fire.

 

[Dango]

My dad is rather shit at what he does, so yes.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Will I be a better father than my own? The world may never know

I plan on not having children, Im not a big "kid" person

 

[Baldur Moon]

Well for me most of the actual 'raising' was left to my grandparents (who were over religious to a fault but still generally awesome.) My ma's definitely provided for me so I can't exactly call her a bad parent, but she and I just can't get along for the life of us (mostly due to her having an insanely short fuse and 0 patience for anything and me being an occasionally clumsy smart ass) so I try to keep my distance as often as possible.

So yea seeing as I'm inherently a patient person and slow to anger I think I'm already on the right track to being better but I can only hope.

My dad's a good guy I suppose but I only see him once a year so I can't really speak much about his parenting other than he took care of me pretty well while I stayed with him