Can You Be a Good Parent if You Had a Terrible Childhood?

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🗓️ 26 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:28.5	Talking about, by the way, I wrote a book.
0:31.6	If this is an issue for you, this is the book to read, bad childhood, good life.
0:38.2	Because this morning I'm talking about
0:39.8	can you be a good parent
0:43.9	if you had a really terrible childhood?
0:48.7	The answer is, yes,
0:51.4	but the stats are not great.
1:02.8	The reason the stats are not great. The reason the stats are not great is because most folks who have endured a bad childhood and have not taken a painful, honest look within, tend to repeat old bad parenting patterns
1:13.6	and become a very negative statistic.
1:16.8	It's a smaller percentage of people who suffered a very bad childhood,
1:20.9	who are really motivated and determined to become a better parent.
1:26.9	The rest of the folks
1:27.8	just sort of marinate in their misery
1:30.0	and repeat it.
1:34.6	And that's why, number one,
1:36.9	if you had a really, really bad childhood
1:38.5	and want to rise above it,
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