Best advice I got about parenting wasn’teven about parenting necessarily, it was about interacting with other adults. I got it shortly before I became a parent myself: “Listen to advice, but understand everyone is full of shit”
People love to speak in absolutes. Nobody speaks about adults like they’re a simple 1+1=2 equation but will absolutely insist children are that simple.
Which is frankly insane. Its the opposite. Culture homogonizes us, adults are much simpler than children, they’ve spent a lifetime being battered into a societal mould. Kids are still exactly themselves.
I’m really glad I got that advice, or reading through these miserable catty comments from people who clearly have all the answers would be really harmful.
Best advice I got about parenting wasn’teven about parenting necessarily, it was about interacting with other adults. I got it shortly before I became a parent myself: “Listen to advice, but understand everyone is full of shit”
People love to speak in absolutes. Nobody speaks about adults like they’re a simple 1+1=2 equation but will absolutely insist children are that simple.
Which is frankly insane. Its the opposite. Culture homogonizes us, adults are much simpler than children, they’ve spent a lifetime being battered into a societal mould. Kids are still exactly themselves.
I’m really glad I got that advice, or reading through these miserable catty comments from people who clearly have all the answers would be really harmful.