Parenting Fail

All of a sudden, I have become horrified of raising my child. All the parenting advice and articles simply cannot and will not prepare you for everything.

What do you say to your child when she strips all off her clothes and runs about screaming and giggling? I hope the answer is nothing, because that is what I said. Or what if that little episode makes her decide that it is perfectly ok to take off her clothes at a club and dance on the table later in life?

What do you say when your child commandeers the presents at another child's birthday party? I hope the correct answer is to pretend like you don't see them doing it, because that's what I did. Or what if that little episode makes her decide to steal things from an electronics store later in life?

I hope these are very unlikely scenarios. It still makes me wonder how my decisions will affect her. Am I doing a better job than my parents did? I think so. Although, I also know where my parents went wrong with me.

I just hope that I don't make the same mistakes and that my child won't wind up table dancing, drunk, naked, and wild. Not that I was wild....