Parenting for Reincarnation

[Addy]

Pretending there is no God (or not pretending, your choice) would you parent differently if you knew with certainty that your child may come back, in the next lifetime as the parent and you the child?  Would you maybe up their allowance some or give them fewer chores?  Would  you use that hairbrush for brushing hair and nothing else?  Would you try to set the stage so that they might be gentle with you when they're parenting you?

[quinn]

Are you insinuating we aren't gentle parents.     No I get it.

If I come back to parent my parents after how they parented me, they better hope I put them up for adoption.    As for my parenting?  There are things I would change but not because I fear retaliation in my next life but because I learned something didn't work in this life.
Parenting isn't an exact science, it's a lot of trial and error.  We won't really know if we are comfortable with our parenting until we see the results of our parenting.  If my parenting style makes my children grow into happy and productive adults then I have no problem with coming back to be parented by them, spankings and all Addy.  Much of parenting is about tomorrow more than today.  We are doing things today in the hope that it will give you a successful tomorrow.  

[mandy]

I think it would be fun to come back and be the mom and them my kids but I don't think I could be as mean as they are about some things.

[laurensobuf]

I am very much where Quinn is. I don't think I would do anything differently. Whatever I was doing at the time, I was doing because I thought it was the best thing to do. And if I started doing things differently because I feared retribution in the next life, I would be doing you a disservice in this life because I wouldn't be doing what I thought was in your best interest, but in my own. Even when I made mistakes, and yes, there were many, they were learning experiences for me that helped me as a parent, and by extension, my kids, in this life. So, yeah, if that means my kids are coming back and laying on the lumber, well, that's OK. I hope if they learned nothing else in this life, it is that everything I did I did because I thought it was best for them in the here and now.

[Addy]

Maybe in a past life I left my kids and that's why in this life I was born to a mother who would go AWOL.  It's an interesting thought.  I think I would probably be very careful about what I would do if I knew it was going to be payback time in my next life.

[Rosie]

Everyone is safe cause if we come back we do it without remembering so there can't be payback good or bad. 

[scarlette]

Parenting my parents and knowing they were my parents in a past life would be.....weird. 
Where do you come up with these questions Adelaide Grace?  

[Libby]

While you're parenting your parents in your next life and looking to get revenge for any perceived injustices, remember they may once again be your parents in the following life. And a vicious cycle begins.

[quinn]

Excellent point, Libby. Excellent!

[Kittykat]

In my culture, we don't believe that you remember much of anything of a past life. You may remember a smell or a certain place, but nothing that would identify your past families.

[Tatiana]

I'm pretty sure every reincarnation belief supports the idea that you don't remember your past life. They say children sometimes remember but it seems to be remembered only if it was a traumatic death. I think India is fascinating because reincarnation is so accepted there, accepted and expected so there are more children remembering a past life.
As you said in the other reincarnation thread, it's fun to think about.