“Here’s my unpopular take:
You don’t know how your kids have actually turned out until they’re thirty.
And even then you probably don’t know for sure.
See, for me, I’ve watched too many parents of toddlers going, “Look! They’re well-behaved! That’s proof that my parenting techniques are wonderful!” And then these kids go to school and become screaming monsters, and it turns out that all this goodness was just a phase they were going through.”
Parents, You Probably Don’t Know How Good (Or Bad) Your Kids Are: The Ferrett
I think it’s 25 for girls. 30, at least, for guys.
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I’m still fully processing the fact that this requires me to set them loose for college without a safety net of “well, we raised them right.”
Think “well, we did the best we could” will work? 😆
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“We did our best” is what we went with – you’ll be pleasantly surprised
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Very funny and right on target. But it works in reverse too. We see our parents differently when we’ve matured than we did when we were teens.
🔹 Ginger 🔹
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Well, isn’t that the truth!
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LOL – so true, so very true :-)!
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Yet a strangely elusive concept for so many. 😆
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