Anonymous
Post 05/16/2026 13:01     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t push my kids to succeed academically. I don’t care if they do extracurriculars. Don’t care if they go to college or not. Most of our evenings and weekends are just spent chilling at home.


Same!!! I find it absurd, honestly.


Why have kids if you don't want them to do well in life and be successful?


DP but in my family experience the ones who went to college didn’t get anything out of it. We aren’t wealthy and my family spent a lot of money for these degrees.
Myself: degree in biochemistry, now work part time doing low level science
Husband: degree, has paper pusher job
Sister: degree, married well, doesn’t work
Female Cousin: degree, married well, doesn’t work
Male cousins: no degree, make more than the rest of us combined doing manual labor/trades
So I know what my sons should aim for.


Frankly, you and your family sounds dumb. You should have chosen more in-demand degrees in college. For that, you needed the kind of academic chops that only develops by consistent, long term curiosity and hard work. Or you could have pivoted.

Parents are a key component in the academic guidance and support that children need to reach there.


You know what happens to the folks who choose the in-demand degrees, don’t you, sweetie?
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2026 12:59     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frankly...everything in the MAGA-world.


Work hard, find dignity in even menial work, provide for your families and children, love your country, be a good spouse, don't depend on public assistance, have a relationship with God/attend church, believe in free speech...

All things that the folks I have met who call themselves Maga live and espouse.


** I would say judging people as a monolithic identity group based on discord and stereotypes sowed on social media by political operatives and overseas bot farms would be the best current "cultural" thing to avoid doing in your lives and raising your kids.


LOL, good one, Comrade.
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2026 08:34     Subject: Re:What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:Motorcycles
Tattoos
Drinking and driving
Private plane trips (yes a few moco kids have died in private planes)
AP classes


This was my favorite list. No one will disagree with drinking and driving.

We can see your point on motorcycles and tattoos.

But how often is your kid being asked for private plane trips? Even if you know others that do them, are they inviting your family?

And then you are banning AP classes? Are they really in the same category? That made me laugh.
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2026 07:54     Subject: Re:What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:I’m not American, but I don’t see the issue with carpooling. What’s wrong with that? We don’t do sleepovers due to a fear of SA, and we wouldn’t allow dating, because we don’t believe in intimacy before marriage, but what is wrong with carpooling?


Wild take.
I am pretty old and I choose to stay celibate in college, every single men who were interested in me left within 6 weeks. Have fun trying to get married 😆
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 21:52     Subject: Re:What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:"Bed Party" or "Dorm Party" before going to college. OMG - this is sooooo tacky.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1325566.page



Everyone seems to be posing in the same style. Yikes. I hope that this tackiness is not carried over to the actual dorm.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 21:51     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t push my kids to succeed academically. I don’t care if they do extracurriculars. Don’t care if they go to college or not. Most of our evenings and weekends are just spent chilling at home.


Same!!! I find it absurd, honestly.


Why have kids if you don't want them to do well in life and be successful?


DP but in my family experience the ones who went to college didn’t get anything out of it. We aren’t wealthy and my family spent a lot of money for these degrees.
Myself: degree in biochemistry, now work part time doing low level science
Husband: degree, has paper pusher job
Sister: degree, married well, doesn’t work
Female Cousin: degree, married well, doesn’t work
Male cousins: no degree, make more than the rest of us combined doing manual labor/trades
So I know what my sons should aim for.


Frankly, you and your family sounds dumb. You should have chosen more in-demand degrees in college. For that, you needed the kind of academic chops that only develops by consistent, long term curiosity and hard work. Or you could have pivoted.

Parents are a key component in the academic guidance and support that children need to reach there.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 21:45     Subject: Re:What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
"Bed Party" or "Dorm Party" before going to college. OMG - this is sooooo tacky.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1325566.page

Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 14:16     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frankly...everything in the MAGA-world.


Work hard, find dignity in even menial work, provide for your families and children, love your country, be a good spouse, don't depend on public assistance, have a relationship with God/attend church, believe in free speech...

All things that the folks I have met who call themselves Maga live and espouse.


** I would say judging people as a monolithic identity group based on discord and stereotypes sowed on social media by political operatives and overseas bot farms would be the best current "cultural" thing to avoid doing in your lives and raising your kids.


I'm so tired of this BS gaslighting. MAGA elected one of the most corrupt and criminal presidents we have ever had. He is dismantling our democracy before our eyes. He is blatantly pushing white supremacy and authoritarianism. Just this morning, he called Kim Jong Un a "decent guy" who he gets along with while labeling the people he is supposed to govern as liberal scum, traitors, and lunatics. And MAGA is saying, "Great job, president." No, you all are decent folks. You can go to church all you want but I want nothing to do wiht you.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 13:39     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:Frankly...everything in the MAGA-world.


Work hard, find dignity in even menial work, provide for your families and children, love your country, be a good spouse, don't depend on public assistance, have a relationship with God/attend church, believe in free speech...

All things that the folks I have met who call themselves Maga live and espouse.


** I would say judging people as a monolithic identity group based on discord and stereotypes sowed on social media by political operatives and overseas bot farms would be the best current "cultural" thing to avoid doing in your lives and raising your kids.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 12:44     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t push my kids to succeed academically. I don’t care if they do extracurriculars. Don’t care if they go to college or not. Most of our evenings and weekends are just spent chilling at home.


Same!!! I find it absurd, honestly.


Why have kids if you don't want them to do well in life and be successful?


Because in pushing so hard you are actually taking away their childhoods.


What? If you don't educate them well, you think that their life will be better being on welfare? What childhoods? Your kids are being sexually exploited by all kinds of creeps because you are not being a good parent and you think prioritizing education is the problem?


What the hell are you even talking about? They are at home with me, being loved and protected. Only a creep would say something like this.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 12:42     Subject: Re:What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Taking pride in being bad in Math in school.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 12:41     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Dressing in immodest or inappropriate clothing in school, college, job, church, weddings, funerals etc.

I mean how low class can this be?
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 12:40     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Frankly...everything in the MAGA-world.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 12:39     Subject: Re:What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Sexualizing children. In their clothes, their toys, their values, in their language, in the images in media, in what the parents are modeling...
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 12:38     Subject: What American "cultural" things you don't do or allow your kids to do.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t push my kids to succeed academically. I don’t care if they do extracurriculars. Don’t care if they go to college or not. Most of our evenings and weekends are just spent chilling at home.


Same!!! I find it absurd, honestly.


Why have kids if you don't want them to do well in life and be successful?


Because in pushing so hard you are actually taking away their childhoods.


What? If you don't educate them well, you think that their life will be better being on welfare? What childhoods? Your kids are being sexually exploited by all kinds of creeps because you are not being a good parent and you think prioritizing education is the problem?