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Parenting in today’s messed-up world

Traditional parenting: always do your best. Respect your superiors: teachers, managers. Is anyone going the modern parenting route? My kids know this phrase better than the pledge of fucking allegiance: “Your employer does not care about you.” I have also taught and quizzed my son and daughter; “if you work for Walmart and you see a woman stealing baby formula, what do you do?” (Correct answer: fucking nothing because you didn’t see shit and I didn’t raise snitches) My wife got upset because she said stealing is wrong. I clarified to the kids “I expect you two not to steal unless you have to in order to survive, but you don’t snitch on someone who has to survive.” Am I a bad parent?


Traditional parenting: always do your best. Respect your superiors: teachers, managers.

Is anyone going the modern parenting route?

My kids know this phrase better than the pledge of fucking allegiance: “Your employer does not care about you.”

I have also taught and quizzed my son and daughter; “if you work for Walmart and you see a woman stealing baby formula, what do you do?” (Correct answer: fucking nothing because you didn’t see shit and I didn’t raise snitches)

My wife got upset because she said stealing is wrong. I clarified to the kids “I expect you two not to steal unless you have to in order to survive, but you don’t snitch on someone who has to survive.”

Am I a bad parent?

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