[ SECRET POST #2041 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2041 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[maverickz3r0]

I gotta say most of these in this thread don't sound petty, they sound pretty reasonable to me. Amazing the amount of adults who think it's okay to be a shithead to kids. Even ones in charge of looking after them. Depressing.

My parents made me do a lot of things I didn't like when I was younger, including swimming lessons until I was about four or five (to this day I remain pathologically afraid of being in water it's remotely possible to drown in), but probably some of the worst was constantly enrolling me in activities I hated.

I wasn't an antisocial child really, I had karate and guitar lessons and liked those fine. I had to do baseball too though, because I needed a 'team sport' for some reason that actually amounted to my parents just wanting to make sure they had to take care of both me and my sister as little as possible. They always promised they would come to the games and if we won that they'd get me ice cream but of course they never even came. I really started to hate playing baseball.

Of course, that doesn't amount to when we moved cross-country and they enrolled myself and my two siblings in a Christian private school over our vocal protests. (We eventually ended up in public school, but we had to actively skip school for a few days and set it up with the public schools first before they got the message.) I still believe forcing your child to go to church/whatever religious ceremony you go to every week against their will is a great way to make them hate that religion.

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[(Anonymous)]

That was very shitty. I don't know whether to >:( or to :(.

It's just... such a lack a respect towards your children as persons with their own likes, feelings and intelligence.

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[threeonetwo]

Ugh, yes, that's a good chunk of the reason I ended up not liking the religion I was brought up on. It didn't help that one of the reasons I put forward for why I didn't want to go to church anymore was that staying home meant an extra hour+ to study/do homework, and my mom still insisted church was more important. The idea that any god would rather have a kid be daydreaming and/or falling asleep during a religious service than actively trying to get good grades did not compute at all.

And the "but you NEED a competitive/team sport" thing was rampant in my house too. Even through years of saying how much I hated it, how much the other kids(and coaches) hated me being there, and one instance of being offered a quarter not to come to a game "so we'll win", my parents are honestly shocked and surprised when I mention now how unpleasant I found it.