I just saw this on Reddit today and I wanted to share it here.

When you’re a parent, you have to realize that the child you brought into this world is going to be their own person and you’ll have to start getting into things you may not understand and have ZERO interest in.

However, you damn well better act like you are.

I can still remember the feeling as a kid getting Pokemon Red and it being something I loved so much, so I wanted to share that with my mom. I wanted to show her my team, tell her about the gym leaders I took down, and she just took a glance at the Game Boy color and went “mmhhhmm”.

She gave zero shits when I beat Banjo-Kazooie, a game which was INCREDIBLY hard for grade school me and you can make me have war flashbacks if you so much as say “Rusty Bucket Bay”.

My town in Animal Crossing? Catching rare fish? Who cares?

I liked a cartoon series so much that I wrote little stories about it? “No, I don’t want to read it.”

This type of stuff matters to kids so damn much and she’ll never realize how much it hurt our relationship. It might not seem like a big deal she never sat down and watched me play something like Luigi’s Mansion, but that’s how kids try and bond with their parents.

After constantly being shot down they’ll eventually stop talking to you entirely.

^^^

Haha anyway if my parents tell me I’ll want kids, that’s just fucking ridiculous because the entire concept of having kids makes me incredibly uncomfortable. At most I’ll adopt someone, even then though, I don’t really want kids to begin with. I probably wouldn’t be good parent anyway. So you know. I don’t really buy that “you’ll want them eventually” bullshit.

fatgirlopinions:

some of my biggest insecurities only became insecurities after my mother pointed them out to me and turned my characteristics into flaws.
parents, fucking watch what you say to your kids.

tenitchyfingers:

anyway if u don’t want kids to see stuff you don’t want them to see, MONITOR THEIR ONLINE ACTIVITY. If you expect others to take on the responsibility of controlling what your shitty brat watches, you’re lazy and unfit to be a guardian. If you’re speaking on behalf of other people’s children, mind your own fucking business because it’s their parents’ job to check what they do online. I ain’t anybody’s fucking mom and I definitely do not plan on censoring myself just because of some bullshit WILL ANYBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN paranoid-fueled witch hunt.

THERE’S NOTHING OBJECTIVE ABOUT THE MORALS OF ABORTION

So you’re killing. And? The meat industry kills all the time. Wars kill all the time. There’s no justifiable time to kill? Please.

At the end of the day, it’s who you put above the other.