But do you call your kids assholes to their face

We all have different parenting styles it's okay

My older kid told me last night at dinner I should write a parenting book because he feels so lucky to have been parented the way he has, when he compares himself to his friends

I wasn’t sure whether to be flattered or alarmed

The moods and opinions of my teenage kids are like a fast changing sky. So different from one hour to the next. So I’m ready for the next piece of feedback and have no expectation it will be positive. Parenting really helps build resilience to feedback in that sense

I do tell my kids they’re acting like assholes if that is my read on the situation

Do you call your kids assholes to their faces?

It's best they hear it from me

You're never too young for the truth

i have to do that thing where i type "and then everyone clapped" literally the internet forces me

everyone needs to stop listening to the smashing pumpkins until we can figure out what is going on!

I’m think if you asked him again today he would say something different because I pissed him off this morning

The beliefs are strong, but often fleeting

that's a very nice way of saying that teenagers are extremely retarded

oh shit! can i still say the r-word?

i'm an old man i don't know any better

Teenager brains are definitely impaired. There’s a good 30 min doco on Netflix, part of the Explained series. There’s a whole series on the mind, and a short one specifically on the teenage mind

It was kind of a relief to watch it. The brain is not fully formed but a lot of high stakes decisions are being made all the time

It’s like a 7 year long episode of Seconds from Disaster

And yet people are expected to chose their life path at that age

so funny to be like okay you're 17 time to figure out what you're going to be doing for the next 60 years lol

also you're not allowed to have sex

Teenage brains can't even consider any long terms consequences of a decision like that

Otherwise there would be no English or Sociology degree programs

You're supposed to say, "teenagers are extremely r-worded."

One of my high school friends went into prostitution at 16. It’s stuff like that, and watching things like Hot Girls Wanted that makes me think the minimum age for sex work should be the same as the age where you have normal car insurance premiums - 25. There seems to be quite a bit of agreement that this is a better age to consider a person fully mature than 16 or 18, because the brain is fully developed.

regulate prostitution! regulate domestic work! protect all women!

The r-worded thing here is not being demanded to do it at 17, it's the very idea of having to pick something to do for 60 years as a standard life practice at all

i just figured out what i wanna do like 5 years ago; it's still a little foggy and i'm not doing it yet, but i am moving in the right direction!

ladies and gentlemen, the smashing pumpkins...

Thankfully I don’t reckon anyone feels such a need to do this anymore - the expectation is that you will have several jobs in a working life, at least.

Even doctors and lawyers are branching out these days into project management, consulting etc.

How's Wellywood, 'nix?

Hope you've picked up your season tickets for the other 'Nix.

tixnix

I dunno, is it really any different?

Work culture may have changed to the point that it's now "okay" to not work at the same company for 50 years anymore, but one size fits all society still demands you to take your gamble on a profession and go die off doing that for the next 60 years. It's a scam and I hate it.

Please don't mind me I'm just an old man yelling at the tv alone in the living room after dinner