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by codebolt 1576 days ago
Are you guys even parents? Because you sure make yourselves sound like experts.

The truth is I know my kids will make absolutely terrible choices if I leave everything up to them. I myself made a lot of bad choices growing up with unsupervised internet access. And on todays web it seems the pitfalls for a curious young person are even deeper and more plentiful. I'm simply trying to spare my kids some of the same problems I suffered by providing some guardrails until they are older and more mature.
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CRConrad 1575 days ago
> The truth is I know my kids will make absolutely terrible choices if I leave everything up to them.

Yeah, so what? How the fuck else are they supposed to grow up?

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afroboy 1575 days ago
Ok next let them try heroin so they make sure it's a bad thing.
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CRConrad 1573 days ago
If they do that then the GP's rearing of them has failed already. If one hasn't managed to instill at least that minimum of sense into them by the time they're old enough to even contemplate that, then they'll just do it anyway, as soon as their parents unlock the shackles and let them out into the daylight on their 18th or 21st birthday.
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account42 1574 days ago
Did your parents restrict or monitor you to that extend when you grew up?
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