• KingJalopy
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    48 days ago

    How do people raise children so badly that they feel this way? After 10 years I only feel pride in what my smart ass cynic daughter tells me.

    • @[email protected]
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      148 days ago

      I guess it’s luck of the draw. Children’s personality is both nature and nurture, and some people are kinda bad at the nurture part. Also some people are just not that interest in what a baby has to say regardless of them being their baby. That’s how you get parents constantly angry at their kids (and traumatized kids).

      • @Dozzi92
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        18 days ago

        I’m tired, but I’m not sure I truly loved my kids until they started taking, and now I love them more every day, it’s disgusting. I value the times we sit down and talk seriously, I love to know what their young minds find important.

        • @[email protected]
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          57 days ago

          Oh, I most definitely love my kids. Seeing their thought processes always makes my day.

          But…I’m in exceptional circumstances. My son lost bowel and bladder control 2y ago (tumor on his spinal cord). Had to live in the hospital a year. Took its toll on our now 9yo daughter…

          And now, my son is STILL used to being woken up every couple of hours for blood pressure checks and who is also awoken at that point? Yep—me.

          I don’t remember the last time I woke up feeling rested.