We're all human. We're not all in a position to say that we have always made the correct decisions and have no regrets.
However, is it so harmful for future generations to be exposed to our mistakes not encourage them to make their own but to truly say, 'I made mistakes, don't be like I was'?
I was recently discussing the examples we'll set for future generations with a 27 year old mother of one. She was telling me how she'd sampled drugs, alcohol and the usual vices greeting us as adolescence is slowly phased into a hormonal/testosterone filled rampage between the ages of 16 and 21. She felt she wouldn't be able to set rules for her child and forcefully get across her disapproval of the child going down a similar path to her.
This is where my opinion was different. Why do we seem so scared to discuss our mistakes openly and conjure a little self respect in having the honesty to discuss our failings and help to aid our children. If you'd suffered the consequences of drug or alcohol addiction or just suffered any form of discomfort due to them, surely it's not hypocritical to instruct your children not to dabble their hand in anything that's going to cause them the same issues you experienced.
Our fear of being labelled as certain things is interfering in the people that we actually are and unless we start to think more about what we think and not what others might think, the human race will continue on it's downward spiral into an idiotic society of mindless upheaval.
