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Having raised four children, currently involved with helping raise six grandchildren, married to a psychologist for eighteen years and a psychiatrist for eight years I can categorically state that parents who believe their children never misbehaved in public fit in one of the following patterns:
All humans push the envelope to learn where boundaries exist. Much more so when they are young because they do not think rationally as an adult, or rather as an adult should think. How many in here have watched a 15 year old do something stupid. I mean something really stupid and you ask them... "Why on earth did you do that?" and got the answer... "I don't know." Then asked, "Didn't you know it was wrong?" and got the response, "Yes I did." Even fifteen year old children are yet to fully develop the ability to rationalize cause and effect. People can recite as many anecdotal stories of perfect children as they want... it didn't happen that way in reality and you are experiencing yet another human condition. The ability to remember the good things in life while forgetting the bad. |