• Wolf Link 🐺
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    4211 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
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    2111 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
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    1911 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.

  • Zerlyna
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    1811 months ago

    Don’t wait for me to graduate high school to get divorced. Just do it.

  • GreyShuck
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    1711 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.

  • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1411 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.

    • @papalonian@lemmy.world
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      211 months ago

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

      This will obviously very from med to med, but most stuff over the counter will be exactly the same for adults and children, just with instructions for children to take less.

      For example, both children’s and adult’s liquid acetaminophen (paracetamol) are sold in the US at a strength of 160mg/5mL, and they will both have the same instructions for children under 2, children 2-11, and people 12+

  • balderdash
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    1411 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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      611 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.

  • @other_cat@lemmy.world
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    1411 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”