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Parenting involves passing along important life skills to children, but that can be a challenge if the parent wasn’t taught them when they were a child themselves.
Melody Pentland is a 41-year-old mother from Cole Harbour with two children, and has prioritized teaching different life skills to each child. - Contributed “With both of my kids I talked about the fundamental things that drive behaviours, and the social and economic situations that bring a person to haste. I always, to this day, talk about the reasons we need to be liberal with our empathy and compassion,” she said
“I’m so proud to share that my son has excellent decision-making skills. He graduated high school, a milestone I did not meet, and has been working towards his career and life goals since before then. I’m most proud to say that my son is a wonderfully kind, caring and compassionate man,” she shared. "I had never known safety or stability and so my focus was on giving them that. My baby would know safety.”Rasmussen was taught basic life skills from a young age and felt it imperative to pass them on to her children. There were a couple things she felt she missed in teaching them.
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