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dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I’d kinda assume I may have played a role in my daughter upbringing…
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dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I’d kinda assume I may have played a role in my daughter upbringing…
12emm@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Agreed. Parents and kids’ childhoods do play a huge role in how they ultimately turn out. However, there are near infinite variables during their development, many of which are completely outside our control. The best thing we can do is like you said, educate, mentor, and physically and emotionally support them as best we can. Sometimes, kids just grow into douchebag adults.
Anyway, OP, at the party you should totally just act like Mac, Charlie, and Dennis when they steal Frank’s credit card and think they’re rich.
derekabutton@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Isn’t Dennis is high on crack while Mac and Charlie are squandering Frank’s riches?!
Did somebody get addicted to crack?
thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
But we have so much experience! I, too, was once a child for nearly 18 years! /s
greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Physically. But mentally even longer!
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Stupid people without kids. I don’t have 'em but I have a functioning cerebral cortex so I can’t even fathom saying something like that out loud
dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
You do, in fact, sound extremely smart. I’m sure your caretaker had absolutely nothing to do with it and the whole field of pedagogy is chocke full of morons.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Where did I say the caretaker has absolutely nothing to do with it?
But yes I guess it’s easier to win arguments when you can just wholesale invent what the other person’s saying out of thin air.
forrgott@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Unlike you, who sounds…not smart.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I can consistently sway my friends toward behaviours that are acceptable to me. I fail to see how this would somewhat be diminished in a parenting role.
What you are saying is that education is pointless and people comes out of random number generators.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s definitely not what they said, and I don’t see how you could read it that way except if you wanted to find something to complain about. There are much more meaningful battles to be fought than calling strangers on the internet bad parents.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I said I would react to getting such messadge from my child reflecting on the possible mistakes I made in raising them.
They said that’s not how it works.
I said education is a thing (implying therefore that parenting do actually play a role).
I had no idea people would get so mad at this, it’s quite interesting. Do you guys all have terrible kids and are all playing a choral defense? I never said it’s easy to be a parent or that you could (or shoud) mold them into whatever you want. But you surely are not infallible and you can clearly track most people attitude and behaviour back to the parentig style and the example they’ve met in the household.
Am I missing something? Is pedagogy being redifined from the ground up and a parent is but a feeding tool?
(If I sounded smug is partially because my mother was constantly praising me growing up).
forrgott@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Nobody said that. Well, you did, I guess.
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah no idea what he’s even trying to insinuate here. You didn’t raise her rich?
dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
You didn’t raise her to find unacceptable to train your parents to behave differently to have them fit a crowd of rich people.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Woah, pets are not pets you train either. Pets can be just as nuanced in personality as a kid. (Our dog is currently sassier than our child and doesn’t care for Dad jokes, our kid loves the dad jokes though).