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This obsession with childhood min-maxing is not helping them. Stop worrying about getting your kid into the most private school and getting them a career where
by Causality1 7y ago
This obsession with childhood min-maxing is not helping them. Stop worrying about getting your kid into the most private school and getting them a career where they make the most money and start thinking about how you can make them the happiest, and how you can raise them so they make other people happy too. There are enough ambitious assholes who had to wear a necktie to elementary school in the world. We need more kids who like themselves and more adults who don't hate everyone else.
- chachachoney 7y agoIf those parents stopped obsessing over their offspring's social and institutional metrics, they'd likely have to confront their own psychological and existential voids.
- RhysU 7y ago"[C]onfront[ing] their own psychological and existential voids" is a luxury in which parents should indulge only after making sure their children are all right. When you have a kid, the first duty is for the kid to be alright. Navel-gazing is only constructive for the kid when it improves the kid's situation.
- chachachoney 7y agoWhat's the deal with the use of brackets in [C]onfront[ing]? I don't disagree with your comment, but I think you're taking something that was said descriptively as if it were prescriptive.
- RhysU 7y agoAh, my bad, I'd read prescriptive. The brackets were because I couldn't figure how else to make the quote read sensibly in a sentence.
- AstralStorm 7y agoThat's what you need, but not what the often sociopaths at the top who control money and power need.