Randomly pondering ways my parents embarrassed me in childhood as you do, and remembering the time we made cupcakes in HE and were sent home with a list of ingredients including food colouring for the icing.
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@afewbugs @lydiafacts @EvilCartyen Yeah, this.
And it's kind of hereditary. I'm constantly trying to calibrate just how much weirdness I'm inflicting on my own kids...
@slothrop @lydiafacts @EvilCartyen I've dodged confronting that issue by not having them, and feel a bit of a coward for it. But I'm so impressed by how much work my brother has done to figure out how to parent in a healthy way
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@slothrop @lydiafacts @EvilCartyen I've dodged confronting that issue by not having them, and feel a bit of a coward for it. But I'm so impressed by how much work my brother has done to figure out how to parent in a healthy way
@afewbugs @slothrop @lydiafacts
Like, I don't have these nigh-traumatic childhood events beyond feeling like an outsider due to not liking tractors or whatever, so I don't have a lot of heriditary weirdness to try to not inflect on someone.
Which, I suppose, is testament to how good of a job my parents and grandparents did, hearing about their childhoods.
Doesn't mean I am not second guessing myself constantly in an effort not to saddle my kids with issues which could have been prevented. I think it's just how parenting feels.
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@slothrop @lydiafacts @EvilCartyen I used to use I Was In Belgium a lot as an excuse for not having seen things on TV, but unfortunately that had a finite useful lifespan before people started pointing out I Was No Longer In Belgium
@afewbugs @slothrop @lydiafacts
These days I just tell people I don't want to watch brainrot like that and that they should get better interests. I work in IT, so most people in my department agree, and we generally don't engage with the normies
