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If my parents bought me a present after I had received a bad mark in school when I was a teenager my twisted mind would have interpreted that as a catastrophe,
by pingec 10y ago
If my parents bought me a present after I had received a bad mark in school when I was a teenager my twisted mind would have interpreted that as a catastrophe, "my god, they really do think I have failed and now they are even trying to bribe me to be better, they must be desperate".
- protomyth 10y agoI'm with you, I would be staring in the mirror having an existential crisis. "What the heck? Are they giving me a thinly disguised participation trophy? They hate participation trophies?!?" I guess know your audience applies to parenting as well as performance.