Parenting takes its basis in the parenting skills of the parents, plain and simple. If a parent has good parenting skills and techniques, they will likely be well-equipped to handle many of the issues that come up throughout life. If a parent lacks these skills, however, the great divide in terms of competent parenting may appear to be quite enormous.

So where does a parent go to learn good parenting skills? When all hope is lost, many parents find that they actually turn to their own parents for advice. Most parents end up parenting their children in ways similar to how they were raised. While this aspect is often a sworn denial among teenage years, sung somewhat to the tune of “I will never be like you”, the reality of parenting often finds a different song of desperation is being sung in subsequent years.

When people are too proud to go to their parents for parenting advice, however, they often turn to other measures. Parenting teenagers is typically one of the aspects of parenting that often drives people to drink, for one. Whether or not hitting the bottle is considered a significant or “good” parenting skill is still up for debate, but parenting teenagers has been known to drive parents to some pretty unfortunate ends.

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