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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. Your children you charming and smugly admit you can’t control are the same ones you’re going to be fishing out of an upstairs bathtub, administering Narcan to or having their stomachs pumped someday.
Raising my kids right and keeping an eye on them, being sure they are guided to understand how to make good choices until the actually exhibit good choice making is not smug control. It’s what parenting is. I will not throw my hands up and let the beasts in![/quote]

As an adolescent therapist, I feel like you’re inviting the universe to test you. Children of protective, good parents also can struggle a lot. And you as the parent may be the last to know. [/quote]

Yes I totally get that too! But I also think we need to try our best and not shame parents who are out there trying, yes like myself. Another truth is that just giving kids so much access to social media does cause harm and bring along other issues so my hopes that I’m able to fend that off and help keep some balance in our home lives should be supported, not derided. [/quote]

Wait, the person who told another parent they'd be "fishing [their kid] out of an upstairs bathtup" someday is complaining that someone "derided" them and that "we need to try out best and not shame parents who are out there trying"?  smh[/quote]

Sounds like you literally don’t know what parents of high school and college aged kids are dealing with today….. this shit is happening out there and pretending that social media, alienation, disconnection from reality and more aren’t huge factors and parents aren’t deeply complicit in this is not going to help. Yes it’s hard but it’s worth it.
Do you think the Armstrong girls’ life’s were enhanced by Dooce’s furious navel baring site? Any parent? No![/quote]

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