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- I'm a millennial mom and always dreamt of being the cool parent.
- While pregnant I came across the concept of gentle parenting and was sold.
- I realized I was enabling bad behavior from my preschool child, and stopped gentle parenting.
As a millennial mom, I've always had this fantasy of raising my child as my friend — being the "cool mom" was absolutely my dream. I was so afraid of traumatizing my son by being too firm and imposing too many rules. Would he grow up hating me? Would his only memories of me be arguments and punishments? Would he label me as a dictator to his friends?