The most useful thing I learned from my parents is that if you neurotically teach your kids to be risk-averse, they will just end up taking those risks as less practiced, less resilient adults.
(If they're lucky.)
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My mother was terrified I'd end up broke if I started doing art, & so intensely discouraging that she managed to get me to internalize her fear.
So now, I want to do art as an adult with serious obligations and no experience.
Nice object lesson in the value of parental advice.
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Parenting is a really odd problem space.
Parents simulataneously have too much power (relative to their children) and too little agency (relative to the state).
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It's not surprising at all that most of us parents do an absolutely shit job in multiple areas even when our intentions are good.
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