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Helicopter parenting...
Nov 18, 2021, 1:09 PM
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Are we raising the least capable generation of children ever?
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Every generation has said the next generation is lazy
Nov 18, 2021, 1:10 PM
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stupid, etc etc.
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I didn't say they were lazy or stupid...
Nov 18, 2021, 1:20 PM
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Parents, particularly mothers, spend an average of 9 more hours a week with their kids today than in the 50's. When little Sally asks you to draw with her most folks go do it. My parents didn't. Parents have to make every single ball game or be judged negligent. I used to ride my bike all over my hometown. I would go miles from where I lived to go to friend's houses. We would spend all day in the wild and just pop back in for supper.
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Also...
Nov 18, 2021, 1:24 PM
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So many parents practice parenting with a goal of their child having the easiest, least resistant path to greatness and then the kids have to start self-medicating in college because they have never developed even the first level of coping skills.
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DONCHEW TAIL ME HOW TO RAZE MY CHILE
Nov 18, 2021, 1:16 PM
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Looky dere she only 3 and she already twerkin. Ha dats some funny mother ###### #### honey.
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When our kid was really young
Nov 18, 2021, 1:18 PM
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he went to an aftercare nearby that's basically a junkyard. The folks that run it remove most safety hazards, but the kids still learn what it means to take risks, and just play.
At first, I thought this place was just this fantastic accident. A throwback from when I was a kid where litigation wasn't as common, but they'd soon be shut down. But after a while, I realized it was part of an "adventure play" movement based on some pretty well established research in developmental psychology:
https://www.parentmap.com/article/best-adventure-playground-northwest-safe
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This is awesome...
Nov 18, 2021, 1:23 PM
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I was just listening to a podcast with Lenore Skenazy and she is a huge proponent of this stuff.
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Oculus Spirit [79400]
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I get the sense that all functional knowledge will be lost
Nov 18, 2021, 1:20 PM
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in under 100 years. My only hope is that as we begin going through energy blackouts, etc. because we're too incompetent to maintain our existing infrastructure and too stupid to build out actual sustainable technology it will force people into being more self reliant and knowledgable about things. Maybe a sort of modern dark ages will propel us back into prosperity.
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You aren't fooling. I love my son and all and he's wicked
Nov 18, 2021, 1:27 PM
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smaht in things academic, but when I've tried to teach him valuable life skills like around the house electrical, plumbing, or carpentry-based repairs, or fun car stuff like how to replace the valve bodies on a transmission, he's about as interested as I am in a lunge EPL soccer megathread.
It's like I am raising that grown man who has to call a service provider when anything in life breaks, and I'm helpless to stop it.
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Yet you still open them and comment***
Nov 18, 2021, 4:38 PM
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Everybody oughtta have to wash their hair with Dawn
Nov 18, 2021, 4:43 PM
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detergent to get the ATF out of it at least once in their life.
I mean I'LL never purposely go through all that again, and never intend to disassemble/reassemble anything that requires an inch-lbs torque wrench again, but everybody probably should once.
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Not I
Nov 18, 2021, 1:24 PM
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My 1st wife was a little bit helicopter-ish and it shows, especially with our first born. He is living on his own and is fine now, but was babied some when he was younger. 6 year old was/is not helicoptered at all. That kid is practically ready to live on her own right now.
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It's the mommas IMO.
Nov 18, 2021, 1:33 PM
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Something has changed in the mothers. The dads all seem about the same. Never really met a helicopter dad, but the mothers have changed big time.
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The women changed
Nov 18, 2021, 4:39 PM
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because the men gave them the window to feel in charge.
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Oculus Spirit [80977]
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Oh I know a few.
Nov 18, 2021, 4:44 PM
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They'd never admit it, but I've seen it.
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About a year ago, my parents were babysitting
Nov 18, 2021, 4:23 PM
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and sent a video of my kids cutting wood with a handsaw. My daughter, 7 at the time, told my boy, 6 at the time... "remember, lilboytigerny, you are only cutting on the push, not the pull." "I know."
I was proud... but slightly disappointed since they didnt recognize it was a bidirectional handsaw for wood and not a hacksaw.
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