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I have so much to say about this. My best unsolicited advice is to quit making rules you know you can’t enforce. Also a little less surveillance and more frank honest conversations you think your kids are too young for. I’m mostly glad I did these things the way I did. I have regrets for sure though
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I started out thinking I would watch everything. I did for like a month when she was in jr. High. It felt shitty. Kids were swearing and being 13. It was sweet but none of my business. There is absolutely such a thing as knowing too much. I reserved the right to spot check an confiscate…
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She got busted for normal stuff but nothing crazy. I attribute that to early, frank conversations about sex, assault, shared photos live forever, strangers and they’re strategies. I got a lot of eyeballs from parents who thought they could replace talking like this with rules and spying. They were wrong.
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Wish you could’ve convinced my Republiconservative anti-vaxxer attack helicopter parent of an older sister I got stuck with.. those poor nephews of mine, never had a chance.
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Trish🫧
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Yeah. I’m so sorry. My folks were like that too except neglect instead of helicopter. See Latchkey 😂. But obeying without explanation was the only way. I moved out when I was 14. The disrespect and absolute refusal to understand or answer questions was maddening. That’s probably why I parented the way I did
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What I feel is that deep down kids feel massively disrespected whether they understand it that way or not when a parent treats them as subhuman. They pick up what’s being put down, whether the parent knows it or not. It doesn’t turn out well to treat humans as though they are subhuman, as we’ve seen..
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