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Being a happy parent seems impossible to many people these days. Indeed, every other day there appears to be a new study on how parents are unhappy. However, it should be noted that those studies do not prove that misfortune is an inevitable part of parenting. It seems strange that the human race would even survive that long in a world where this was true. Parents today are often unhappy for a reason. They expect their children to do everything right. They expect to do everything right themselves. They stress whether other people know what is good for their children and whether other people are ultimately better qualified than they are. They feel compelled to avoid 'waste of time' and fear that later on they will regret almost everything. They are stuck in the past or the future and wonder why the present always seems to pass them by. There is no reason for parenting to be like that. Many parents have become caught up in some sort of vicious circle after seeing too many of their friends take the exact same approach to parenting. Their own parents probably took a similar approach, and neither is this necessary. Parents who learn to adopt the right attitude will have much better and happier years with their children.