Frustrated Parents Support Thread - as in "How the HELL do I deal with this mess???"

[HopeHoops]

3. It's not a ramble. If you say you know what to do, you're full of shit.

We're all lost in the maze of parenting. That's one of the things I always loved about "For Better or For Worse". You just do the best you can, but nobody has all the answers, or even half of them frankly. My kids are a breeze compared to what I was and I STILL don't know what to do sometimes.

My wife has a sticky pad with a cartoon image of a woman with a suction-cup dart on her forehead. The caption is "The only thing that keeps me going is the hope that one day my kids will grow up to be parents". Somehow I avoided getting paid back for what I was, but then again, after my third (of three) daughters was born somebody told me it was God's way of paying me back for what I was. So far (at least) that hasn't proven to be true.