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unrequested thoughts on parenting fedi kids lol
A parent has to balance preventing bad stuff and when it’s time to sit back, watch their kid get hurt, and help them through the fallout.
This is an impossible balance to get right especially because that balance evolves over time. A baby you protect from almost everything and it’s hard to realize it’s time to let go and even harder to actually let go.
It’s not just protecting the kid, it’s self protection of myself; its been shown moms experience their children’s pain as if it were their own.
Also if y’all’s parents knew what the phrase “fedi meta” meant they’d probably lock you in your room even if you are legally an adult 😶
unrequested thoughts on parenting fedi kids lol
This doesn’t make an overbearing parent right, actually usually they are making bad decisions by being over protective. I am just trying to explain why it happens and where it comes from.
The alternative sucks, like the one person I met irl didn’t tell anyone where he was going and like if I had been a worse person and had I been attracted to them… I was put in a position where I could have done a lot of harm. The type of harm I have seen happen at least once happen on fedi.