Until you have kids please keep your parenting advice to yourself! Your dog does not count. My children are human beings who will last a lot longer than your mutt. Your criticisms and Monday morning quarterback advice is not appreciated. The evenings you spent with your nephews does not make you an expert on child rearing either. Its easier to criticize but you have no idea what its like. Stop pretending. You have ruined our lifelong friendship over this. —FookOff
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Touchy. I have no idea as to how this advice was presented or what it entailed but sometimes parents should listen to it. They can be blind to their kid’s bad behavior. Not sure where the dog fits in all this. Did they suggest a shock collar for your kid?
Sorry op. Any fool has every right to offer advice they have no business offering.
Maybe your kids annoy everybody. I know that’s what causes ME to spew advice i am not qualified to give (“Give it a fucking NYQUIL ALREADY….”)
Also op, is this friend welcoming your kids into her home? Because if so, she has every right to tell you to stop your kid from fucking with her space and if it doesn’t stop, she has every right to tell you exactly what you need to do to stop it.
I’m not saying this is the situation. But it sounds to me that someone is trying desperately to tell you your kids are unpleasant.
You don’t need to have a kid to be able to offer useful advice on raising children. Higher educated and higher ability women are having fewer children than before, so the average parent is declining in intelligence anyway. Maybe parents can learn a thing or two from non-parents.
Sir you can also say that because you were hungry this one time, you could teach africans a thing or two about starving to death.
You’re dumb and not helping. I won’t even get into how intelligence and knowledge are not the same thing because any other fool knows that. And your ignorance is not my problem. It’s so fundamentally all-encompassing that i can’t make it my problem.
Op, this fool does not speak for us non-parents..
Intelligence implies greater productivity in cognitive tasks, such as learning and acquiring knowledge. Duh. But yes a lot of evidence pointing to the declining “quality”/”education”/”intelligence” of mothers. Mothers shouldn’t assume that non-mothers have no useful advice to offer.
Taking care of kids is not rocket science. If whatever was said pissed you off this bad, something must be close to the truth.
let’s send all the self absorbed parents with their pampered progeny off to live on a secluded island. send the preggers out there too, because they are a royal pain in the ass. the ‘it’s all about me’ mentality may have been needed 10,000 years ago to survive the species, but it’s not applicable in a modern office in todays hugely overcrowded and dying planet. (personal gripe right now)
make sure that island is far enough from shore the buggers can’t swim. then do a flyover sterilization. why on earth are people still having children?
Some kids just need a fucking good thrashing, same for the cuntish parents. Spare the rod and spoil the child is good advice.
Don’t Britney, don’t Britney, please stop that Britney, if you don’t stop mummy is going to get mad, please Britney, sorry to make you cry by saying mummy would get mad, here Britney take this left hook you little fucker, and a boot to the arse you quiff.
This parenting advice brought to you by the letter S, as in Satan.
buuuttt… if you’re talking about learning… isn’t it necessary to have a kid to learn how to care for them?
Duh indeed.
Also cognitive processes be damned. Just because you CAN learn to do something, doesn’t mean that opportunity is there.
I’m guessing you’re very young sir and have something to prove. I don’t have time for that. You don’t put a lot of thought into what you say. Just piles of arrogance and the typical attitude of a know it all little kid. Yes, yes. You know everything about everything you’ve never experienced. Every idiot does.
Bearing children is sort of like “on the job training”. It helps but it is not necessary. For instance, bearing children is not a necessary condition when one can explore the wonderful world of Google Scholar, which has much to say about child development as it relates to parenting strategies. There are many childless scholars who know a lot about raising children through their scientific research. So, one can simply acquire knowledge by reading, an inherently cognitive task. More informally, one might have some advice to offer based on simple inferences drawn from observations of cross sections of parents, some bad and some good.
As a parent myself i’ve noticed ppl without kids give the best advise. Of course their suggestions are easier said than done.
My opinion regarding this thread depends on the content of the advice and whether or not it was warranted. You don’t have to be a parent to know how children should behave. You also don’t have to be a parent to recognize children who are not being taught manners, respect and common courtesy. After all, we were all children once, and can testify as to how are parents raised us.
Today’s methods of parenting are, for the most part, slack. It shows in the lack of manners, respect and common courtesy displayed in our young people today. Perhaps your friend opted to offer you some much-needed advice, as opposed to ranting amongst your circle of friends about what a holy terror your kids are.
I’m not saying this is the case, as you haven’t given specifics, but keep in mind that we are often blind to the ill manners and unfavourable behaviours of those closest to us. Try to be a little more objective and see things through the eyes of those around you. Sometimes the truth hurts.
Hey, Nurse, you going to the Summit this weekend?
Nobody cares about your stupid kid, or how you parent it. Its likely going to grow up and emulate your twattery anyway, so her trying to help probably won’t have a profound effect on what you teach your little hammerloaf.
Also, a “lifelong friendship” is just that, a lifelong friendship. One that you abandon is not a “lifelong friendship”, its just a regular -ass friendship. A “lifelong friendship” seems to require a little more effort than you seem to have to offer.
Plans of summit were aborted. No summit this weekend, biscuit.
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good ranting shitd, you sound like louis c.k.
Today’s spawn are our future, excuse me one minute as I go to the deck and kill myself.
Now Baz, a lot of todays young people are committed to making the world a better place and know exactly how they are going to do it:
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Sorry. Kne I couldn’t keep a straight face. >: )
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Good dog Molly you sound like a twit. I hate when ppl categorize an entire group of ppl based on a few bad apples. Yes there’s lots of shitty parents, n crazy misbehaving kids. But there’s also a lot of great parents and great kids. We were all children once.
OP without knowing what was said its hard to comment on right and wrong. If this friend is as good a friend as you say “life long” then maybe cut them a break. It’s like when someone gives you advice on your family and you defend your family cause you love them “I can call my sister a bitch but you can’t” situation. Try not to take the advice to heart and keep n open mind maybe?
You don’t need to be a parent to be able to tell the difference between good parenting and crappy parenting, sorry OP.
Steve ” …Its likely going to grow up and emulate your “twattery” anyway..”
“twattery”…lol.. I laughed my ass off. 🙂 :p