• Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Just break up already. Creating a tiny extra human is not going to magically fix all of your issues.

    … of course that would create a paradox in which I was never born, hence not able to give her that advice … but seriously, the only reason I exist is because my mother didn’t want my dad to leave her, which is simply a shitty reason to become pregnant.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    If you want your children to engage in a certain behavior, you have to actively model that behavior. A kid isn’t going to do the thing if they never see you doing the thing, no matter how much you call them out on not doing the thing.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If you guys ever have kids, and one of them, when he’s eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug… go easy on him.

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    9 months ago

    Validate your child’s feelings. Let them know that you understand that they are scared and that it is ok to be scared.

  • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    How about instead of cheating on my mom, teach me how to talk to girls… and don’t cheat on my mom lol

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Yep, know the pain… dad didn’t cheat on mom, but he still didn’t teach me anything… about anything really… and now, I’m paying for it in a shitty marriage.

      Well, at least I know I won’t make the same mistake with my son.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Lay off the legal and illegal drugs, seriously. No, hiding them in a drawer isn’t baby proofing.

    Children’s medications aren’t scams, they have different doses for a reason (the reason is usually risk of overdose).

    Yelling and beating a child isn’t discipline and the southern Baptist church is a terrible place to take kids.

    I worked through a lot of this in therapy, but it still annoys me that I had better risk management in my teens than my parents did in their 30s.

  • other_cat@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Jumping on the “get a fucking divorce” train and adding “stop buying prepackaged overprocessed food, feed me some damn vegetables, and stop giving me so much goddamn sugar”