# VII Command So You won’t Screw Up Your Kids

VII: Never forget: You are going to grow a carbon copy of what you hate most about yourself– unless you change what you do and are.

There are no excuses.

There is no point saying, “Well, I have a temper, that’s just the way I am. My Dad/Mom was a bad example.”

No excuses.

Loving a child means forcing yourself to change.

(to be continued in this space tomorrow…)

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Frank Schaeffer is a writer and author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back .