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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are some things you wish your parents had taught you or that you're trying to teach your children?

My parents made me practice piano and study French for several hours a day, but they never told me to use soap (or made sure I had any) while showering, for instance, and they let me starve to death two small pets without seemingly noticing.  They worked from home and I was an only child, so this seems incredible in retrospect.

I also wish I'd been taught to ride a bike as transportation and go camping, but those aren't necessary skills, just two things I feel intimidated by as an adult.[/quote]

When I was about 8, my parents got me a bunny.  Being a little boy with a short attention span, I did not feed the bunny and it died.  My parents mocked me relentlessly for years, making fun of me that I had killed the bunny and that when I had taught the bunny to not eat, it finally died.  This scarred me for years, as I was a sensitive kid.  Now, as a responsible dad, if my children do not feed a pet I would see it as my responsibility to make sure the pet was fed. Although I loved my parents, I think they acted like irresponsible idiots.[/quote]

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