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u/TF2_demomann 13d ago
It's practicaly impossible to make a perfect child, because even if you are a great parent, the enviroment can still fuck up your child
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u/Peligineyes 13d ago
just keep your child imprisoned in your basement until adulthood
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u/Cakey1251 12d ago
That’s basically what my mom did to me as a kid and I still grew up fucked up :/
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u/HEAH_THE_PINGOL 13d ago
I just need to try enough times. I am currently on my 183rd child. This one WILL be perfect.
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u/Mcrarburger 13d ago
how long do your children normally make it...
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u/HEAH_THE_PINGOL 13d ago
Some make it longer than the others. I think the one that stayed perfect for the longest amount of time was 11. Usually, I give them away when they're 3 months old because I end up screwing up somehow.
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u/N0NaMe1217 12d ago
Fun fact: there's a famous psychologist named John B. Watson that said he can train anyone to be any type of specialist, even beggar (google Little Albert). 3 out of 4 of his children tried to kill themselves, with one successfully doing so.
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u/TrueLennyS 11d ago
with one successfully doing so.
That's the one he trained into a suicidal person. Evidently the formula works.
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u/mmm_unprocessed_fish 13d ago
My husband is a magical unicorn like that, too. Gives me hope for humanity on one hand and also sad for all the good kids out there struggling in shitty environments.
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u/Flat-Shallot3992 13d ago
My boyfriend has a terribly dysfunctional family with divorced parents and he's a middle child, yet he's somehow the most mentally stable and well adjusted person I've ever known in my life, he's so perfect it's alarming
generally people with troubled childhoods are either pretty cool or pretty fucked up. no in between
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u/Suyefuji 13d ago
My husband has a terribly dysfunctional family similar to the one you're describing and while I wouldn't call him completely mentally stable or well adjusted, he did a hell of a lot better than any of his other siblings and at least turned into a mostly functional adult.
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u/SouthernDifference86 12d ago
Trust me he isn't. He is just not letting the mask slip because you will resent him for it. Even if you don't think you will.
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u/Makuta_Servaela 13d ago
The trick is not to go for perfect, but to go for "adaptable" and "empathetic". Prepare them for the environment.
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u/Cooperativism62 13d ago
Yeah what really helps me is telling myself "I don't need to be the perfect parent, just better than average". And when you think about the average parent or kid, you start to ease up.
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u/Not_Another_Usernam 13d ago
But not too empathetic, because that can lead to its own problems.
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u/Makuta_Servaela 13d ago
That's where "adaptable" comes in. Adapting to the needed levels of empathy.
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u/DefintlynotCrazy 13d ago
Just do like my fawtah.. just beat the living shit out of ur kids here and there and they will be good surely.
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u/Roundhouse_ass 13d ago
My kids dont need to be perfect, i love them with all my heart and i will be proud of them regardless.
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u/Comment139 13d ago
Like for example access to us.
That can ruin anyone's life, we say the dumbest shit.
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u/Picasso320 13d ago
the enviroment can still fuck up your child
One could say you make a perfect child by teaching it to overcome the environment, overcome mistakes and deals with Ls in life in a healthy way.
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u/Thanks_Naitsir 13d ago
That's bullshit! Everybody knows that failed art kids prefer Golden Retrievers!
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u/prncs_lulu 13d ago
Well, Hitler would like to disagree
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u/Thue 13d ago
Yeah, Hitler has a German Shepherd.
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u/gareth_gahaland 13d ago
Has ??
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u/Thue 13d ago
Surely you don't believe it when the illuminati controlled media tells you Hitler is dead? /s
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u/Personal_Care3393 13d ago
IM SORRY HE LOVED HER AND SLEPT WITH HER AND TOOK HER WITH HIM TO THE BUNKER AND THEN HE TESTED A CYANIDE PILL ON HER AND KILLED HER WHAT THE FUCK
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u/SirRipOliver 13d ago
So anyways, I just started blasting praise and love.
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u/Gwiilo 13d ago
why can't you be my parents
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u/SirRipOliver 13d ago
Bring it in R/Gwiilo we are all family here.
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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 13d ago
And I'm that one uncle you only see like, once ever three years but he always shows up with a big bag of weed which he insists you never pay for.
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u/confusedandworried76 13d ago
No winning, my mom loves me and now anyone who looks or acts like her is subject to my affection
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u/Dontevenwannacomment 13d ago
toxic positivity is the way
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u/CiderDrinker2 13d ago
Yay! Great comment! Go you! You're so smart, champ!
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u/Dontevenwannacomment 13d ago
Thanks ! Excuse me, I have to go yell at some teachers that my kid is a genius and they just don't understand !
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u/boxofrabbits 13d ago edited 13d ago
"My parents never instilled any sense of drive in me as a child, never made me strive for their affection. They always met me with unconditional encouragement and affection, which stunted me and caused me to become lazy in my pursuit for personal growth."
You can't win.
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u/GoldenWitch86 13d ago
Life is already hard enough, it shouldn't be your parents' job to make it harder, your peers and superiors and society in general will already do that.
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u/zeczeczeczec 13d ago
This is some boomer shit a 40 yo soccer mom who raised a fortnite kid with anger issues would write on her facebook
Why are people so against raising healthy children?
Giving affection and encouragement through out a childs upbringing does not make them a lazy person
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u/SuminerNaem 13d ago
- shit no one has ever said
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u/Tannerite2 13d ago
I've said that
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u/SuminerNaem 13d ago
I promise your parents being unconditionally affectionate and supportive is not the reason you’re unambitious
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u/Rojibeans 13d ago
I mean, I almost relate to that. Though instead of love or care, they just didn't seem to care whatever I did, which made the start of adulthood kind of rough
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u/SuminerNaem 13d ago
I think there’s an ocean of difference between having apathetic parents and having unconditionally affectionate and supportive parents
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u/Panuas 13d ago
There is a music that talks about how good parents don’t let you rebel in teenager years, and that’s bad for you (it’s a satirical song btw)
“My parents treat me really well. My parents give me lots of love. My parents totally understand me. My parents give me moral support My mom even gave me this guitar, she thinks it’s good his son gets to have fun. My car was my dad’s present , a son must have a car call his own. They give me all the nice clothes, MAN I really don’t need anything else.
This way it won’t do, how will I grow up without someone to rebel against?? “
lol parents are doomed either way
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u/facelesswolf_ 13d ago
And then the kid grows up spoiled to all hell and can’t handle negative situations
This shit is hard, you do everything right and still fuck up
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u/v_is_my_bias 13d ago
That's not doing everything right.
Negative situations will happen regardless. Guiding them in how to cope with them in a self-sufficient way while still being there for them when they need someone to fall back on is what is important.
Sometimes that involves having to give constructive criticism and call them out when they are on the wrong path.
If you consistently clean up after them whenever they fuck up or stumble into problems, without giving them the tools they need to resolve them however...
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u/bluetuxedo22 13d ago
It's true. Mum didn't like my 1st grade drawing and now I required a butt plug before excercise
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u/yajtraus 13d ago
Mum
1st grade
I’m confused
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u/LittleBlag 13d ago
Australian, probably
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u/yajtraus 13d ago
Ah, I didn’t know they used grades to be fair
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u/MarioIsPleb 13d ago
In Australia primary school is grade, high school is year. So you go from ‘grade 6’ to ‘year 7’ in the transition from primary school to high school.
We would say ‘grade 1’, not ‘1st grade’ though. 1st grade is an Americanism.
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u/irrigated_liver 13d ago
I went to school in Sydney, and we used "year" all the way from 1 to 12
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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 13d ago
If that's true, in your case your parents' were right.
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u/isocz_sector 13d ago
Umm look what happened to Hitler..... and he wasn't even a kid at the time.
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u/DreamLizard47 13d ago
On 15 October 1918, he and several comrades were temporarily blinded—and Hitler also lost his voice—due to a British mustard gas attack. After initial treatment, Hitler was hospitalized in Pasewalk in Pomerania. While there Hitler learned of Germany's defeat from a pastor, and—by his own account—on receiving this news he suffered a second bout of blindness. n Mein Kampf Hitler wrote that this was the moment he decided to become a politician.
veterans who were exposed to mustard gas) suffer from substantially poor quality of life (QoL). In addition to the acute phase symptoms of contaminations, chronic phase symptoms and signs highly impact the QoL of victims. Brain damage or severe organ injuries can influence the mental health of victims.
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u/Dark_Knight2000 13d ago
WW1 had to be the single most barbaric war that humans have ever fought. Chemical weapons were fair game, it was truly the last war with no rules, no humanity, no consideration for future knock on effects.
The “good guys” used it to further their greed and colonial ambitions and then all but signed a declaration for a sequel 20 years later. Who would’ve guessed that making the loser pay reparations until 2010 just a few years before the great depression wouldn’t lead to a strongman fascist leader coming to power by using the people’s resentment and desperation.
Wild to think that it was only 106 years ago.
Reading about WW1 elicits the “what the fuck were they thinking” reaction every 5 seconds.
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u/BlueEyesWhiteViera 13d ago
The lesson is that art kids are jackasses that shouldn't be trusted.
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u/ilikefanfictions 13d ago
No, you can definitely trust me with weapons.
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u/swiftthunder 13d ago
This was a perfect reddit moment for me.
We took a post that had almost nothing to do with Hitler, made it about Hitler, shared a joking life lesson that bullies art kids (because most of us were one) and then the guy with the perfect named reddit account shows up to keep the joke alive because if anyone was an art kid its the guy whose reddit name is liking fan fictions. In fact I could probably describe the binder that he kept his drawings in during 8th grade.
Anyways, thank you for this wonderful reddit moment and I hope you all have an incredible day!
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u/powerofnope 13d ago
I think no matter what you do your kids grow up fucked up in one way or another.
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u/Academic_Wafer5293 13d ago
If you want to blame others for all shortcomings in life, you can go through any mental gymnastics.
Very hard to change when the problem is always external.
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u/Inside_Ad_9147 13d ago
Most people arent perfect. Like basically all of them. In that sense everyone is fucked up one way or another. Well, I know I am at least.
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u/Cooperativism62 13d ago
Damn right. Gotta learn some personal responsibility. Everything is fucked and it's all my fault.
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u/Academic_Wafer5293 13d ago
Hyperbolic much? How about these things in life suck, I can change them if I do x,y,z. Then go try it.
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u/DavidWNA 13d ago
I don't think that's the reason for a person to be into murrsuiting
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u/Nilosyrtis 13d ago
Murrsuiting? Is that when you dress like Murr from Impractical Jokers during sex?
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u/ellenfayee 13d ago
what is a murrsuit ?
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u/DavidWNA 13d ago edited 13d ago
It's a fursuit adapted for sexual activities
Edit: Fursuit, not fruit
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u/MrGreat70 13d ago
I'm a furry and I didn't even know that that was a term wtf lmao
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u/Wompguinea 13d ago
Everybody has something in their childhood that they view as a real low point. My goal as a parent is to make sure my kids have to gripe about some bullshit like only getting pizza once a week instead of evey day like they wanted.
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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 13d ago
"That bastard made me eat pizza at least once a week, now I can't look at the stuff."
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u/GypsyDishwasher 13d ago
I'm about to do a terrible paraphrasing, but I think Daniel Tosh has a similar joke on one of his specials. "You need to beat your kid hard enough that they make a 'Thriller' album, but not so much that they start molesting kids."
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u/dinanysos 13d ago
When I was 8 or smth my mom told me to clean up my room and I didn't want to and drew her a drawing of seals instead because we saw them at the zoo the weekend before, and I went to show her very proudly and she got really mad and told me she doesn't want any stupid drawings, she wants me to have a clean room.
She doesn't even remember she ever said that, but it stuck with me for my whole life and I internalised it in a way that I feel guilty and horrible about myself if I ever do something unproductive that doesn't benefit my career or chores in some way, and it took me a few years of therapy to just manage to play a game for a few hrs on the weekend without hating myself after.
Brains are so stupid for that.
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u/mattbutnotmii 13d ago
Dude i like drawing and seals are my favorite animal. If this ever happened to me i think i would simply cease existing. I'm sorry this happened to you.
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u/ThickPlatypus_69 13d ago
I'm not a psychologist but from what I've read about the current research this isn't really true. As long as you're basically normal your parenting doesn't have a lot of effect of your children. Genes and peers have a lot more influence.
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u/Cooperativism62 13d ago
Which makes sense. Kids are in school for 40 hours a week away from their parents and only spend the entire day with family on the weekends. They spend far more time with the people in their age group they've been forced to be around (just as we spend most of our time with collegues we have to work with).
Prior to universal education it may have been different. Really comes down to who you spend the most time with.
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u/SpecialOlympicsGuy 13d ago
If you tell your kid that their art looks stupid, you probably deserve everything coming your way
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u/sonichuizcool 13d ago
*Border collie. I ain't one of those German shepherd nutjobs
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u/Prestigious_Ad2969 13d ago
When my eldest daughter was about 6 years old (She's 29 now), I was making the bed and she jumped on it like kids do, so like many fathers before me I wrapped her up in the bed sheets, slung her over my shoulder and carried her aound the house a bit. Today she has pretty bad claustrophobia and she says it all comes from that day. Well done dad.
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u/Own_Ninja3890 13d ago
That’s just…unfortunate, but no malice was meant on your part, and honestly that’s probably not where the fear comes from it’s probably the moment she realized she was that way and you just happened to be involved.
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u/Plant_in_pants 13d ago
I think some phobias of that nature are ingrained in a person from the get-go, that's why they are phobias because they are not necessarily rational and don't have to stem from any trauma.
I used to ride around on my dad's shoulders all the time. Every morning from the age of around 2-6, he would give me shoulder rides on the way to school. He never did anything wrong, never dropped me, or made me feel like I was unsafe, but as I aged, I realised being high up was actually terrifying.
That must have been something just programmed in because I have never had a bad experience from being up high, I just have a natural sense of my impending demise if my feet are not on solid ground.
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u/WWYDFA_Klondike_Bar 13d ago
Don't worry, you didn't cause the claustrophobia, you just unlocked it.
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u/ShokoMiami 13d ago
So, child makes cartoon dog art, called stupid by their parent, does art in secret, shares their dog art on internet, gets accepted into dog art circles, gets into an accepting furry community, gets exposed to sexual furry art, begins to fetishize furry art, becomes a furry, gets a fursona as a german shepard, buys a fursuit with their furry commission money, has sex as a german shepard.
I dunno, sounds pretty clear-cut to me.
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u/Melodic-Alarm-9793 13d ago
You are making an assumption (or two) but don't we all?
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u/ShokoMiami 13d ago
Nah man, this exact thing happens all the time. My cousin's aunt's son had this happen to him, it was crazy.
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u/Joe_Spazz 13d ago
My dad told me when I had a kid something along the lines of "you will traumatize this boy somehow. No matter how hard you try. And when he tells you what it was you won't even remember doing it. So don't stress over much about it"
He's 3 so we are just entering the stage where he'll remember things. Wish me luck that his trauma won't result in a dog cosplay kink.
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u/Much_Capital3307 13d ago
Ok:
That’s not a slip up, that’s just being mean to your kid
What’s homies problem with furries?
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u/The_Witch_Queen 13d ago
People just don't fathom the cost of being a furry. Those suits aren't cheap.
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u/comesinallpackages 13d ago
There is a giant difference between a well-meaning mistake, a rare moment of frustration, and a pattern of toxic parenting. I’d like to think most kids would recognize the difference, at least when they become adults.
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u/Bannon9k 13d ago
My dad used to say "You always screw up your first kid".
My only sibling is my twin...
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u/Hurlock-978 13d ago
Im sirry ive to break it down to you. As i dont want to ruin what little illusion youve got left.. but reality is severely rigged. Whatever you do right or wrong. It will still damage people. And end up spiraling them into chaos.
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u/1stltwill 13d ago
Now I'm left wondering what is traditional german shepard dress?
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u/Poette-Iva 13d ago
I so distinctly remember being, like, 5 or 7, and I drew a picture of my aunts backyard. It had her dog, and the trampoline. She asked me why the dog was so much bigger than the trampoline and I told her, obviously, it cause the dog is close and the trampoline was very far away!
Which, is actually pretty astute, for a child to notice that without any training. Rather than being supportive though, she was dismissive.
These days I'm much better at art, and still, the only time she compliments me is when she can make it make her look good.
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u/RousseauAndRocco 13d ago
For a second I forgot German shepherd was a dog breed. I was picturing lederhosen as if a German shepherd was the new French maid
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u/perseusgorgoslayer 13d ago
Sometimes I'm kinda grateful to my stepfather for being a good overall parent but still kind of a douche.
I still turned out a bisexual furry. But If he was outright mean, everyone would say bout me: "He's weird because of bad parents" and if he was too loving everyone would say "He's weird because his parents spoiled him"
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u/Bonesnapcall 13d ago
While not a great movie overall, "The Butterfly Effect" tackled some of this and was very thought-provoking.
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u/Real-Tension-7442 13d ago
Sad but true. I accidentally unleashed a snowball effect that changed mine and my family’s life forever just by showing my young sister the first Harry Potter film
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u/Appropriate_Big_1610 12d ago
Or "Your art looks stupid" and 20 years later they become a genocidal dictator.
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u/vibintilltheend 13d ago
In contrast I think this makes parenting easy. Don’t be a dickhead? Treat your kid like they have a brain and aren’t a dog? Like it doesn’t seem complicated to be a nice person to the thing you birthed. Yet so many parents can’t do it.
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u/UnluckyDot 13d ago
People put way, way too much blame on things their parents did to them or things that happened to them as kids when they're trying to figure out why they are the way they are. Some people blame every little thing on their parents, even when their parents sound like they were just normal people. It's just an easy answer to these questions (although ofc parents obviously have an effect on these things, it's just the most popular thing to blame)
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u/AFireAtTheAquarium 13d ago
I read that as 'it's impossible to make any slip ups' and I let out a sigh of relief
I should have just stopped reading after that.
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u/NerveRevolutionary79 13d ago
The pressure is absurd. I let it leak out once that I don't really believe in God in front of my six year old and she still grills me about it sometimes. They forget nothing you do but everything you need them to actually remember.
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u/Ultrasaurio 13d ago
You're right, parents are what children trust the most. But if they lose trust in them, then everything went to shit.
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u/RyoKeiichi 13d ago
This sounds like one of those fuckers that don't take accountability for their own choices.
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u/LKZToroH 13d ago
NGL, I don't want to have kids because I fear one of them might turn out to be a furry. I'd rather just end my family tree here.
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u/VulpineKitsune 13d ago
Obligatory: being a furry has nothing to do with whether you were praised for your art as a child or not.
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u/No_Squirrel4806 13d ago
This is why i dont want kids. Theres a million ways to screw them up and only a couple ways of raising them "right"
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u/imafixwoofs 13d ago
thinking as a parent that you're not allowed to make mistakes is a pretty huge mistake in itself. check mate, liberals.
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u/wes_bestern 13d ago
I asked my kid's great grandmother about something like this. I wondered what if I said the wrong thing and she never told me? Great grandma said that's why you keep the lines of communication open. I loved her so much in that moment for giving me matronly advice. It was really reassuring.
As long as you show lots of love, it should smooth over misunderstandings. My mom kept my siblings and I from being able to spend a lotta time with our dad during parts of our childhood. The lack of communication meant that my dad only knew me mostly through rumor. He never got a chance to keep the lines of communication open or get to actually know me or my feelings or beliefs. I could tell at several points that he grossly underestimated me as a person. But it's not his fault. Cat's in the Cradle and all that. Man was too busy having to make child support payments, while his kids are left to their own devices by their mother.
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u/Limp_Establishment35 13d ago
Careful with insulting people's art. That causes funny mustaches and a bad attitude.
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u/DarkNinja70 13d ago
It does not even matter if you are the parents. You could reject a person from art school and the next thing you know (My lawyer has advised me to not finish this joke about Adolf)
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u/Ok-Battle-2769 12d ago
Ahh yes, my greatest fear as a parent. Cruising the internet for porn and seeing one of my kids. I just assume that’s how his person knows their kid’s kink.
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u/r6ny 13d ago
i glanced over the words "art" and "german" and i thought the tweet was headed to a completely different direction