Sometimes the upset parent calls are totally legit -- the ones whose kids 'forgot' to tell them the price of the apartments for which they've just signed legally binding rental contracts, for example. Others... not so much. There's a large contingent of parents to whom I want to say, "You do realize you're working very hard to make sure your children are helpless and incompetent at solving everyday problems, right? Because that is 100% the effect of what you're doing by rushing in to fix everything for them and aggressively shelter them from the consequences of their own actions." *sigh*
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Date: 2016-10-10 02:28 am (UTC)Sometimes the upset parent calls are totally legit -- the ones whose kids 'forgot' to tell them the price of the apartments for which they've just signed legally binding rental contracts, for example. Others... not so much. There's a large contingent of parents to whom I want to say, "You do realize you're working very hard to make sure your children are helpless and incompetent at solving everyday problems, right? Because that is 100% the effect of what you're doing by rushing in to fix everything for them and aggressively shelter them from the consequences of their own actions." *sigh*