richardisaguy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agowhat is a parental advice you wish you could give to your father/mother before they had you?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squarewhat is a parental advice you wish you could give to your father/mother before they had you?richardisaguy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoLay off the legal and illegal drugs, seriously. No, hiding them in a drawer isn’t baby proofing. Children’s medications aren’t scams, they have different doses for a reason (the reason is usually risk of overdose). Yelling and beating a child isn’t discipline and the southern Baptist church is a terrible place to take kids. I worked through a lot of this in therapy, but it still annoys me that I had better risk management in my teens than my parents did in their 30s.
Lay off the legal and illegal drugs, seriously. No, hiding them in a drawer isn’t baby proofing.
Children’s medications aren’t scams, they have different doses for a reason (the reason is usually risk of overdose).
Yelling and beating a child isn’t discipline and the southern Baptist church is a terrible place to take kids.
I worked through a lot of this in therapy, but it still annoys me that I had better risk management in my teens than my parents did in their 30s.