Mum raised us as a single parent and quiet honsetly there is no way in the world I will ever replicate her parenting.
I had no boundaries, I was the adult in the house, I cleaned, I did the school lunches, I did the washing.. I did everything.
I made a lot of mistakes growing up and I know that if I had boundaries there would have been no way I would have made those decisions.

My parenting on the otherhand is fairly strict, but we have a lot of fun. I put being a mother first, and that is something my mother did only once in a blue moon or so. I am a lot more proactive in their lives, and thats the way I plan to be. Dh is very similar, his parents were great parents but they treated him like an adult from the day he was born, and he suffered growing up because of that.

In actual fact we are the total opposite of our parents. we are rasing our girls in a way that we always dreamed our parents were like when we were gorwing up