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Yep. Your point of view as a parent is often very different than as a teen/20-ager. Different priorities. You’re suddenly aware of all of the things in society

Yep. Your point of view as a parent is often very different than as a teen/20-ager. Different priorities. You’re suddenly aware of all of the things in society influencing your kids. You’re very aware when things your read online don’t match up with reality and especially with math. It’s just life experience. I don’t know many parents who look back at their younger years thinking, “I had it all figured out back then.” And the longer you watch it the more aware you become of the people trying to influence kids for different reasons specifically because those kids don’t look at it and call BS immediately.

loudtieblahblah 5y ago
As a parent it becomes super apparent how many interested parties, especially child-less interested parties, are interested in capturing the minds of your kids. Be it to make a buck, to further their political cause or for something sexual/nefarious. Or even usurping their minds and psyche into something destructive as an ignorant and unintended consequence. Then all the "stupid" authoritarian, seemingly arbitrary and maybe even paranoid shit your parents pulled all of a sudden comes into focus and understanding. You, more easily see, how irrational panics happen/occur and sometimes when those panics aren't entirely unjustified
fallingknife 5y ago
Adults don't look at it and call it BS immediately, either. If anything kids are better at it. e.g. we all knew that the moral panic over violent video games was a bunch of BS.
- svnt 5y ago
  I think these are two different classes of issues you’re comparing. Kids are perhaps often intuitively good at evaluating the severity of unintended consequences. Adults are much better at being aware of deliberate efforts to take advantage of developmental stages and tendencies.
pbhjpbhj 5y ago
More age, and requisite life-experience, changes you as a parent. In some ways it's better, in some ways it's worse. I've been a better parent and a worse parent for my younger children - IMO 30-32 is/was the right age to get balance in these things. I expect that differs by cultural setting, nationality, etc.. Couple of examples: I'm less hot-headed as I age; I'm less physically able (much more than I expected).

loudtieblahblah 5y ago

As a parent it becomes super apparent how many interested parties, especially child-less interested parties, are interested in capturing the minds of your kids. Be it to make a buck, to further their political cause or for something sexual/nefarious. Or even usurping their minds and psyche into something destructive as an ignorant and unintended consequence. Then all the "stupid" authoritarian, seemingly arbitrary and maybe even paranoid shit your parents pulled all of a sudden comes into focus and understanding. You, more easily see, how irrational panics happen/occur and sometimes when those panics aren't entirely unjustified

fallingknife 5y ago

Adults don't look at it and call it BS immediately, either. If anything kids are better at it. e.g. we all knew that the moral panic over violent video games was a bunch of BS.

svnt 5y ago
I think these are two different classes of issues you’re comparing. Kids are perhaps often intuitively good at evaluating the severity of unintended consequences. Adults are much better at being aware of deliberate efforts to take advantage of developmental stages and tendencies.

pbhjpbhj 5y ago

More age, and requisite life-experience, changes you as a parent. In some ways it's better, in some ways it's worse. I've been a better parent and a worse parent for my younger children - IMO 30-32 is/was the right age to get balance in these things. I expect that differs by cultural setting, nationality, etc.. Couple of examples: I'm less hot-headed as I age; I'm less physically able (much more than I expected).