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Dude, you’re their parents! Take some responsibility!
by itsaidpens 7y ago
Dude, you’re their parents! Take some responsibility!
- sametmax 7y agoYes, I'd like to read a "I must have messed up somewhere". That would be a good starting point to "what can I do about it".
- mlcrypto 7y agoYes I would say the mistake was made 20 years ago
- fackfallnass 7y agothat's a bad attitude to take and leads to a lot of unnecessary guilt about something you have little control over. parents cannot do much to shape the personality and ability of their children in adulthood.
- sametmax 7y agoGuilt is unnecessary, agreed. And so is blame. Taking responsibility is. Without, you can't fix your mistakes. And yes, personality and ability of children are definitely shaped by the parents. Of course, now that the kid is an adult, things are much harder to fix. But that doesn't mean the parents have no role in it.
- cc81 7y agoThe daughter seems to be doing fine and we don't know the cause behind why is son is behaving the way he does.
- dang 7y agoAggressive, unsubstantive comments about personally intimate situations... please don't. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118297 and marked it off-topic.