Parenting brags....

I would not consider not spending a lot of time at school a "blunder" at all. The idea that parents have to go to every game and put in an appearance at school assemblies, etc., is really hogwash to me. I don't think this is what makes a good parent at all.

Your kids are probably doing well in school because of, not in spite of, the fact that you don't volunteer a lot at their school. They own their educations, IOW.

I really hate all the pressure our society puts on us to be so involved in our kids' lives that we forget where we end and they begin.

What is one thing that you think has gone right for your kids, due to a parenting *value* (for the lack of a better word) that you implement?

My DDs all seem very accepting of the differences in people.

What is one thing that has gone right for your kids, despite a parenting blunder?

The reason I know that God has a sense of humor is because he gave me three DDS. They all have grown up to be fairly feminine despite having a mother who knows absolutely nothing about anything girlie (make-up, hair, etc).

LOL LOL LOL! Happens here, too. I remember bragging once about how proud I was that my kids got along so well, and not 10 seconds later, they both came up asking me to settle the stupidest argument you could possibly imagine.

And when they were younger, my friends jokingly called my kids the "Stepford kids" because they were freakishly well-behaved, but last year, my son was so oppressed by our strict standards that he was diagnosed with anxiety disorder.

And yes, we've lightened up a lot. Parenting is really humbling.