3 ms·

How have the different parenting approaches resulting in adult happiness and success? I’d love to hear your take.

• moomoo11 3y ago
  It’s hard for me to be unhappy when I check my bank account and future prospects when it comes to jobs. My upbringing definitely didn’t make me happy at the time. But as an adult I see why my parents pushed me. They had absolutely nothing then they scraped together something all for me to do better than them. If entrepreneurship doesn’t work out worst case I’ll be making 250k plus somewhere, or 400k plus at big tech. And if I don’t want to do that I could just learn something new since I learned how to learn. Yo dawg.. jk but seriously I can’t complain. Given our socioeconomic circumstances (dad was making like 30-40k and once my mom was able to get work authorization she could only find temp or part time jobs) I couldn’t have asked for a better set of parenting and parents.
  • ackfoobar 3y ago
    I can imagine an objection being "happiness is not just about money" - and that's true! But it seems to me that if one (subconsciously, maybe) worries about money, one will be better off psychologically, compared to someone who has so little to worry about that they start to worry about things that they can't control.
    • moomoo11 3y ago
      The only people who say that are either well off, or have no chance at ever getting out of poverty (any one of the billions of people who aren't in 1st world or in major tech hubs in 3rd world, who we won't see except on documentaries about how f'd up situation is in xyz country). Money means you can eat and have a roof over your head. More money means you can do more after those needs are met.