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anxietyproblem

minty-mayhem

I find it kinda funny

I find it kinda sad

Blessed Cancellation

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch

That’s it. That’s the movie.

brutus-red-xiii-deactivated2021

Irish Tesco worker nails church acoustics in work stairwell

yomamapussystink

nau-see

me and the girls out on the town

obi-wan-ken00b

wtf is going on

butchflirt

Me and the girls being out on the town

jasonpriestley

The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

acreaturecalledgreed

fun fact this special scared so many kids so fucking badly (b/c the blair witch aspect was played weirdly straight) that CN never aired it again

welcometoyouredoom

ahmallama-deactivated20240604

this is like a group chat

sylferino

paper-mario-wiki

just found out hitler died

kamchatka2054

Wtf that’s no way to treat the dead, he might not have been the best person, but have some respect

internetsettings

hope you acted like this when stalin died, right? :)

kamchatka2054

Stalin died???

mobpsycho100

i-hate-chick-fil-a

knifenick

If you think like that, please don’t ever have children.

dragonsspire

Listen, my parents installed a lock on my door so I could lock everyone out of my room if I wanted to at sometime around 8 years old. They had a key of course for safety but they’ve never had to use it and they’ve never used it when they didn’t have to.

I was allowed full access to any books, movies, and internet I wanted fully informed about our family beliefs and practices but I was given no supervision once I reached about 13 because my parents trusted me to stick to the rules or not as I felt and come to them if there was anything that I had questions about.

As long as I said where I was going, who I was with, and when I was going to be back and then phone if anything changed I was allowed to do pretty much as I pleased from 13 onward.

I moved back in with my parents after university and the first conversation we had was my dad telling me that if I felt like they were treating me like a child to please tell them because they had no intention of doing so.

I still live with them and I’m comfortable here as an adult. When I eventually move out again, which I feel no rush to do because I feel respected and given more than enough elbow room, I will probably talk to them often if not everyday. Because they’ve always respected my privacy and my autonomy both physically and emotionally. If you want an independent and fictional child trusting them and giving them their space will do you many more favours than not.

greyforthewicked

meanwhile, my parents…

password protected my computer so i had to get permission every time i wanted to use it

put a passcode lock on our pantry so we couldn’t eat without permission

regularly checked our internet browsing history

shut off the internet at regular intervals, including when i needed it for university homework

did monthly checks of our bank statements and would confiscate money if they didn’t approve of our activities

in response, i went behind their backs and opened a new bank account, got a secret job, bought my own groceries, and used the wifi from the school across the street. they didn’t succeed in disciplining me. all they did was force me to distance myself from them.

your children are not your property. they are human beings, and they deserve basic human rights.