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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She needs serious therapy in order to function in the world. At 16 I was working outside jobs at 20 hours a week in addition to high school.[/quote] Kids are different these days than when we were kids. And we can't (shouldn't) blame them because we did it to them. [/quote] Who is ‘we’? Plenty of children are capable of small independent acts. OP (and you, I’m certain) have coddled these monsters to the point of paralysis. [/quote] And nowadays, with our culture of extreme infantalization, plenty of children aren't. (I'm not going to tell you about my children, or yours.) I won't call the large number of children with anxiety today monsters. Why would you?[/quote]
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