@Shadowman311 I don’t think so, it sounds like your classic old, disinvolved parent who thinks he’ll scare his never-parented child into shape by kicking him out of the house at 18. Because THAT will snap him out of all that millennial bullshit!
Guys like him LOVE doing the big, dramatic, TOUGH® gesture because it’s far easier than spending 20 years of thankless, grinding work being a father. Decades of inaction and ineptitude on his part are forgiven in his mind because “I DID THE HARD CHOICE”
These same people omit all their responsibility, acting like “you can’t change ‘em, they come out how they come out!” but they lived their whole life a stranger to their sons under their own roof, leaving him to bear the full brunt of modernity with, at best, a monthly check in when they awkwardly happened to feed in the same room together. Little surprise the child that parents itself ends up lost….leave it to the most selfish fuck in the funny pages to undo years of personal failure with one simple, short moment of callousness.
I’ve seen this pattern. They LOVE thinking that the big gesture will fix things, that all they need is to kick their teen son out of the house and he’ll somehow become just like they were in their teens (you know, in the 70’s, in a 7-child family that always went to church) because their kid is forced to sink or swim. They’re genuinely surprised when the captivity-bred, untrained child sinks.
"Send them to some building where I can pay people to fix my kid and then I come back and the problem is solved for me"
Can a boomer conceive of a solution that isn't either "do nothing" or "throw money at it"?
At least with the greatest generation has some self awareness about the world
@hydramacready @Nirty_Digger @Frosche @Shadowman311 I have to say that way too often to people, they’re so shocked that their families will abandon social mores but you’ll open up the hood and find they got a good 10+ years of religious bedrock instilled in their brain, if not more, that they just ignored with their kids because “eh, I turned out alright I haven’t gone to church in years!”
I see it a LOT with the ones who rely on subtle guilt to halt bad behaviors, like preventing alco or hard drug use. They just assume their kids, raised completely outside of such lessons, will naturally inherit that same programming without it ever being said.
Congrats, liberal democracy has chosen their religion for them: and it's woke faggot.
t. Naive republicans
Free marketplace of ideas has never existed, either you instill in them the ideas you want to pass on, or someone else will come along and instill theirs.
@johnnyappleseed @hydramacready @sickburnbro @Nirty_Digger @Frosche @Shadowman311 It never helps that they’re too selfish to teach effectively. Most of the con parenting I’ve seen has been too authoritarian, not really patient enough to lay out the big picture, the hows, the why’s, it comes off as “well you think like me because it’s our team, and their team is dumb”.
It’s not the most resilient messaging when they carry around a portal telling them the same thing with slick adverts from nike, the govt, all promising that their parents will be mocked forever and they can join the real good guys!
@WashedOutGundamPilot @Frosche @hydramacready @johnnyappleseed @Nirty_Digger @Shadowman311 @sickburnbro
I was thinking about this a lot.
My father was that kind of libertarian in parenting, and it did allow me po understand why I go to school, why debt is bad etc... But it also caused me a hell in school, where the system wasn't prepared for people who want to study.
