• CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Parents bragging about their kids is really sweet actually. Just as long as its about each kid individually and not like some weird collectors complex

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      18 hours ago

      My mother in law introducing herself as a “mother of six” and each of her children by their number order. “This is my fourth!”

      😬😬😬

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      4 days ago

      It can be sweet, or it can be icky.

      If the parent likes the kid for who they are, and is just happy to have a great relationship with another independent human, that’s great.

      But, sometimes the parents are obsessed with having a kid who they can mould in their own image. They insist, for example, that the kid become amazing at football, because they never made it as a football player but through their kid they can live their own dreams vicariously.

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      4 days ago

      In the ye olden times, we’d rejoice over a successful birth, but modern medical care means that preganancy and birth is at its least fatalistic.

      People had reasons to celebrate birth pre-1800s. Now, well…