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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone grow up with parents who provided zero life guidance and emotional support/growth during their childhood and formative years? How did you deal? How did you learn the tools to have an emotional life and personal growth? Did your siblings learn?[/quote]

I realized when I was very young that they loved my but where wrapped in there own issues.  Also, lacked the life skills to teach me.

I wanted better for myself, I started listening to other adults, following the news and reading a lot.  Now my life skills are so high that my parents can’t comprehend them.

My brother on the other hand is lacking them, but has a wife that makes decisions for him.

I try to teach my kids life skills and I going to set up a multi million dollar trust fund for them.  I may be over compensating. [/quote]

What are the life skills you mention? Do you mean investing and such or something more? What life skills can be learned from following the news?[/quote]

I am someone whose parents never gave a piece of advice (they are blue collar low caste--we are immigrants). I remember once in my twenties I was at the mall and saw a parent with two children telling the kids that they should wait for people on the elevator to get out before approaching. That hit me hard because I knew I was neglected, but the depth of the neglect was striking as even something as trivial as this my parents would have never provided. The news helped me so much with life skills because understanding politics is about understanding human behavior. Plus, the big newspapers have sections about nutrition (I was never told to eat healthy or had that modeled) and advice from therapists, etc.

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