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You're reliving your childhood trauma. It's OK. We all do it. We just need to learn to recognize it and deal with it as best as we can. I say this because you
by jmyeet 3y ago
You're reliving your childhood trauma. It's OK. We all do it. We just need to learn to recognize it and deal with it as best as we can.
I say this because you seem to take my point personally and are shadow boxing with a point I never made. Did I say "don't send your kid to school"? Did I say "never let your kid in front of a screen"? No, of course not.
There is, for example, a vast difference between playing Xbox with your child vs letting them sit all day in their room on Roblox.
My point is that I see so many people (too many people) use screens as babysitters, work long hours to "provide" and keep their kids in the care of other people all their waking hours without actually spending ANY time with them.
None of those things are objectively bad. It's only bad when you're using them as an excuse to avoid giving children your time and attention because, in reality, you don't actually want children.
- robocat 3y ago> You're reliving your childhood trauma Jeepers - you seem to be fixating a lot on this "childhood trauma" idea. My guess is that you are responding to someone who would never apply those words to that situation (seemed like normal teenage stuff to me). Obviously HN is a terrible forum to have any reasonable discussion about the cause of your fixation. Context: I think that there's a whole psych industry that survives by ruminating on personal problems: the industry and it's participants are incentivised to addict people to their tripe. The right amount of psych thinking is healthy: dosage defines a poison.