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Parent reflects on past certainty about raising kids
Original: I’m not embarrassed that I got it wrong. Kids figure themselves out in drafts, same as the rest of us. What embarrasses
A parent is reflecting on a string of posts written months earlier about their child, admitting the confidence in them now feels misplaced. They say they are not embarrassed by getting things wrong, since children figure themselves out in drafts like everyone else, but by how certain they sounded. The posts are described as reading like an audition for the role of a good parent rather than honest observation.
Why now: Parents relate to the uncomfortable gap between how confident they sounded about their children and how things actually turned out.
Evidence
- I’m not embarrassed that I got it wrong. Kids figure themselves out in drafts, same as the rest of us. What embarrasses me is how sure I sounded. I wrote a whole run of those posts that month. Every one of them reads now like a parent auditioning for the part of Good Parent.… · prismnpen@stranger.social · 2
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