Why are my bullets instantiating as children of the player?

I have a a script that controllers input for my player and all it does it instantiate the bullet. On the bullet's awake it gets a velocity. The bullet is fired from a firing spot in front of the player not colliding with anything. For some reason, my bullets are being spawned as children of the firing spot, which is a child of the player and are now firing and moving in the direction of the player. My aim was not curving bullets, I just want to make it fire like a cannon.