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If those parents stopped obsessing over their offspring's social and institutional metrics, they'd likely have to confront their own psychological and existenti
by chachachoney 7y ago
If 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.