When did parenting become a competition?

[moviemom]

Originally Posted by snookumsnort

Thanks ladies! And I thought I was the only one going nuts about this! You're right. If they're like this in front of their children, who's to say their kids won't grow up with this type of thinking when it's their turn to be parents?

That was my point too. The person who used to be my so called "best friend" has already had a terrible influence on her little girl. She would constantly yell at this child over minor things like spills or forgetting to pick up her toys. She did this every time we were on the phone and kept this poor baby (who is now only 7) scared to death to make the slightest mistake. This was the person who thought she needed to tell me how to be a mom! This is just one of the many reasons we aren't friends anymore. I could not stand to hear her nag her little girl any longer. She was a perfectionist to the extreme and if everything wasn't going exactly as she wanted, she made everyone else around her feel miserable. The sad thing is that her precious little girl is the one who will suffer most because of this.

[crackshot1000]

all that's said is very true...