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So your parenting advice is to teach your kids to do things they hate while suppressing their feelings so they can be like the average unhappy person?
by danenania 2y ago
So your parenting advice is to teach your kids to do things they hate while suppressing their feelings so they can be like the average unhappy person?
- zdragnar 2y agoI hate doing laundry and cleaning dishes. I still do it, though. There are things in life that you won't enjoy but you need to do. Learning to do them anyway is in fact a life skill. I've seen people follow their dreams into careers they chose because they wanted them, despite those careers not being paid well. They're all at least as miserable as the average person, because what they enjoyed is now work, and they don't have money for anything they now enjoy. "Do whatever makes you happy" is a life plan for the financially independent. Most people simply don't have that luxury.
- bogdanoff_2 1y ago> I hate doing laundry and cleaning dishes. I still do it, though. Sure, I see your point. I guess what it comes down to is: what percentage of your life do you spend doing that? If you don't like doing laundry, then don't start a laundry service business.
- blitzar 2y agoParenting, having and raising children, including but not limited to the act of giving birth is the ultimate example. There are many "piano lessons" along that journey. Sometimes you have to eat a shit sandwich.
- danenania 1y agoSure, but you don’t have to accept that they’re the only thing on the menu.
- blitzar 1y agoSure, you can take off at 2am and leave a screaming 2 month old child in a room and never come back, because you have been trying for hours to stop it from crying and it is just too fucking hard - just like you can walk out of your piano lesson and never go back. Or you can reach for the sandwich.
- Tronno 1y agoIf piano lessons is what trained you not to abandon a crying baby, I'm not sure to say.