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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That seems silly. As a kid, I would have wanted the parents who let me eat candy all day, stay up as late as I wanted and never stop watching TV. [/quote]

That's a really short-sighted and simplistic way to look at it. She's not saying would you be 100% fun for the kid in every moment, she's asking whether, over the course of their lives, would they be glad they had you as parents. Can you provide love, support, boundaries, compassion and kindness? Can you suffer through stuff that's boring to you because it's important to your kids? Can you sacrifice some of your wants in favor of their needs? Typically when she gives this advice, it's to someone who is on the fence about whether to have kids at all, and who has concerns about whether they can/want to make the necessary sacrifices. She's essentially asking them to be honest about what they can give to a child, and whether they think their hypothetical child would think that was enough some day.[/quote]

Obviously. But she should say that instead of the silliness she did. [/quote]

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