The problems lie in practicing what they teach us. It's easy to become distracted with day to day stresses and unfortunately some parents, if not all at times, tend to bring those frustrations and stresses out in the way they interact and communicate with their children.

Most of us learn our parenting skills from the way we were raised, our observations and perceptions about our own parents manifest themselves when we ourselves become the parent. Often times this can have devastating effects on our lives and the lives of our children, especially if we were brought up in less than ideal conditions.

For those parents that have had a rough childhood it can become a vicious cycle IF they don't recognize the pattern and learn basic skills to correct the situation. Patterns of abuse and neglect can be stopped if more parents had the foresight to see the pattern and took the necessary steps to stop the cycle.