On parenting

What ways do you wish your parents had shown love or supported you as a teenager or young adult?

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I wish they would have understood that I was just a kid instead of treating me like I was responsible for all the kids they’d fostered. That’s all. I wasn’t a parent, and if they’d have respected that, things would have gone differently.