Being a parent is a job that people shouldn’t take lightly, because their influence will last a lifetime. The hardest thing about being a parent, is no matter what you teach your children, good or bad, it will influence them for the rest of their lives. There are many people who have very little common sense, which is helpful for parenting. If you have normal common sense, then you are already on the road to being a good parent. When raising children, the most natural response for people, is to do the same things that their parents did. If you think that your parents didn’t do a very good job, it is possible to break a bad parenting cycle by being aware.