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		brabel on April 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What you give up by moving into engineering manage... Most children grow up to be decent human beings despite parents having no clue. I don't think you can do much for them, they do it all by themselves... just don't destroy them by being a horrible person and treat them with respect, even knowing you have all the power in the relationship.

JohnFen on April 13, 2023 | [–]

Parents tend to take both too much credit and too much blame for how their kids turn out.

timellis-smith on April 13, 2023 | [–]

Very true, and we are mostly formed by our genetics, and it really helps to keep that in mind.

But as parents that doesn't stop us from overly attributing everything bad that our kids do to our own bad parenting.

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