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Dr. Becky Doesn’t Think the Goal of Parenting Is to Make Your Kid Happy
- unbalancedevh 5y agoI guess it's pretty universally agreed that spoiling your kids is a bad thing. I always thought that the goal of parenting was to teach kids how to live healthy, productive, satisfying lives. Presumably that will make them happy in the long term.
- duiker101 5y agoAs always, common knowledge is not really common. Being a parent is a big job in which most people get very little training and most wing it. Trying to make the child happy right away only seems like a natural instinct, even if in the long run it might have adverse consequences.