Relationships
How To Deal With Your Parents' Mistakes And Failures As An Adult
Part of growing up is realizing that our parents didn’t know it all — and they even messed up sometimes. So how should we handle the mistakes our parents made when raising us?
By Mia C. Gonzalez3 min read
As kids, many of us grew up looking at our parents with blind trust; they were the adults, and we were the kids, after all. We automatically assumed they knew exactly what they were doing with every moment of discipline, with every word they spoke to us, with every rule they set in place, taking their years of life lived before we came along as an indication that they were wise and therefore never felt lost.