First off, I’m not saying everyone made huge mistakes growing up. But what’s something you went through, struggled with, or did when you were younger that you’re trying to keep your children from repeating? For me, I was always getting into trouble in school. Other than during football season, I was pretty much just there to convert oxygen into carbon dioxide and make my teachers’ lives miserable. Honestly, people were shocked I even graduated. Eventually, I joined the Army, straightened myself out, and later became a firefighter. My daughter, who’s 19 now, started getting into a lot of trouble too not doing her school work and skipping school. My ex used to get after me about it because, truthfully, she got a lot of that attitude from me. I saw a lot of myself in her, and my family said the same thing. Because of that, I had to be more firm with discipline and really sit down and talk to her about how the path she was on wasn’t going to get her anywhere in life. She fired back at me a few times, pointing out how I acted when I was younger and what I do now. I told her there’s no way she’d want to go through the things I did or see the things I saw in Iraq and while working in the FD. Theres no way I would want her carrying those kinds of nightmares either. After a while, her mother and I were finally able to get through to her. She settled down, graduated high school, and now she’s in nursing school because she wants to follow in her mother’s footsteps as an RN. submitted by /u/FFSoldier57
Originally posted by u/FFSoldier57 on r/AskMen