"Do as I say, not as I do."

I don't think age factors in. I think it is a thing called 'being human'. We all make mistakes and although we need to be good roll models we occasionally fall of the wagon and do something or say something we wish we hadn't. It is almost comical at times. Life does tend to go on.

We can change only until a certain age and then the way we behave becomes a part of our conduct. We cannot change it even if we try hard. Our convictions prevent us from doing so. Much depends on kind or sort of thoughts and ideas we plant in our mind. Once they proliferate they prevent us from seeing the things beyond. The tendency to ask kids to do as we say emanates because we begin to think that whatever we do or say is always right. We fail to realize that children rather learn from examples and not through listening to what we say. We ought to be careful to see what we say and what we do.

I don't know why parents say this. One of mine said it to me once, and I told that parent that there is no way in Hell I am going to listen to someone who can not take their own damned advice!!! Parents can say what they want, but if they are not willing to live by their own example, they should not complain when their kids don't.

Parents teach their children the lessons from their lives because they have been there and they have experienced how it was to be in that situation. Yes, age has something to do with that. As we age, we were able to pass so many challenges and problems which we thought were hard to hurdle but as we get along with it, we were able to pass through them all. We tell our children some lessons in life so that they would be ready as they pass those challenges and not lose hope and try their best to do them as our parents have done before.

Oh yes I have/had made many changes after the birth of my children as I do not beleive in saying do as I am saying, as I would find that I would be a hypocrite and not educating my children correctly. I prefer to say do not do what I have done and explain what I had done and why it would be wrong to do. Also explaining that had I continued doing as I did I would not be who I am today.

Maybe the parents feel that they are still doing stuff wrong and don't want their children doing them. Also maybe the parent doesn't feel that they need to change. Age may have something to do with this. I don't see that age should be a factor. If you tell a child to do something then you should be doing it the same way.

By teaching or telling their experience and knowledge during their life time to children the parents can not be considered as having stopped learining further for any reason.Where is it said that they should not learn?Parents consider that their experience in life will be useful to their children and they also feel that their children should notcommit the same mistakes they have committed in their lives and thereby avoid problems or troubles...