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b"We start off today talking about how sometimes we have certain expectations of our children and when they don\\u2019t meet those expectations, we get frustrated and start thinking we need to maybe punish them, when in fact punishing them for innocent things they\\u2019re doing can just frustrate your children. Sometimes we forget what it was like to be a kid and thus put a higher standard on children than what we should, especially our own children. Our goal is not always to get the kids to behave at school, or a more formal location, as they would in home. Often when they\\u2019re with their peers and in a group setting, they have to conform, but when they\\u2019re home, there isn\\u2019t as much order and things are more relaxed. Your own peers can even influence your expectations of your own children based on what they do with theirs. Parenting has taught many things, and one main thing is the principle of patience. We don\\u2019t always need to be improving ourselves in a certain area, but often what we need to gain from parenting is patience. We need to remember that kids don\\u2019t always play by our own playbook, and our playbooks are determined by our own childhood.

Adam\\u2019s flashback from his childhood 5:04
A reason why we have unrealistic expectations of children 10:10
One thing Rosie has learned 16:40

\\u201cSometimes we have these expectations on our children or our babies. We can just have them ourselves or we can get them from society, we can get them from a book, we can get them from different places, but it\\u2019s like we expect or want one thing to happen and when it doesn\\u2019t happen, we are frustrated or we think we\\u2019re behind or we feel that life isn\\u2019t going in the right direction when in fact everything is fine. It\\u2019s just our expectation in that situation that's upsetting things.\\u201d 1:33

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