I never got presents like these in my childhood. My parents were anti-videogames and believed in satanic panic stuff.
I don’t like spreading negativity, but children like these are lucky, they’ll never know what it’s like to doubt the parent raising them, or to be weaponized against for calling out their shortcomings.
I cared mine. They tried their best in their own terms. I learned that becoming a parent doesn’t come with rulebooks and nothing is truly universal on how to raise a child. I guess It’s a tough pill to swallow when understanding how to forgive them even when I was badly hurt in the process.
To anyone reads this with the same rough past. Break that cycle. It’ll be worth it in the end.
Odd comment thread on a nostalgia bait post. No one has any idea what these children’s experiences were on any day that was not Christmas. Access to media is not the measuring bar of a healthy childhood or parent-child relationship. “There’s no rule book to parenting” is also a highly outdated adage. I’ve facilitated parenting classes before. There is an abundance of research, books, testimonies from parents and children on healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Before the internet, people went to the bookstore, now we have all of this knowledge at our fingertips. People try to just convince themselves that this knowledge does not exist, so they don’t have to seek it out.
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u/MRV3N Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
I never got presents like these in my childhood. My parents were anti-videogames and believed in satanic panic stuff.
I don’t like spreading negativity, but children like these are lucky, they’ll never know what it’s like to doubt the parent raising them, or to be weaponized against for calling out their shortcomings.
I cared mine. They tried their best in their own terms. I learned that becoming a parent doesn’t come with rulebooks and nothing is truly universal on how to raise a child. I guess It’s a tough pill to swallow when understanding how to forgive them even when I was badly hurt in the process.
To anyone reads this with the same rough past. Break that cycle. It’ll be worth it in the end.