helvetius | This is why I shouldn't be allowed to post.

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Developmental psych is interesting, but depressing. You learn that almost everything you do might end up screwing the kid. You pay too much attention and you may end up with a spineless offspring with coping difficulties. You don't pay enough attention and you may also end up with a kid who's going to grow up insecure and with coping difficulties as well. It's like damn if you do, damn if you don't and fark if it isn't one bloody thin line (provided you're able to find where the goddamn line is in the first place). There isn't a "Go Back" button either. I don't know how parents did/do it. You plop out a baby, spend over half a million on it (yes, my tutor calculated, that wonderful wonderful Evil man) and at the end of the day, you don't know what it is that you have created and what it's going to do.

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This post was brought you by the fact that Cat is going back to Oz tomorrow, she reminded me she won't be seeing me for nine months, that it is time enough to have a kid and plop it out and I am totally blaming her.

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nice pic. ^_^ plop out a baby and become a stable tree for your kid.

more uninformed ranting from yours truly follows below.

from the zero sum argument, yeah, parents have a risky job. psychologically speaking, its a daunting task and shouldnt be undertaken by the unqualified. but generally, if they at least bothered to try, then that seems worth a whole lot more than by the book baby making. part of the responsibility (ooh, lookeee, its that word! GLEE!) is the childs burden, as well. sure, my parents buggered the job w/me but i'm the first-born but that hardly gives me an excuse to be a nutjob.

humanity, use it or lose it.

and, while we're on the topic of baby-making, you should really play this game. goes to show what sort of parents this kid had.

Viviparous Dumpling

Cyclops? Eh?

*is so not a big fan of Mr. Summers*

bleh. i gave j00 the wrong link.

That's actually supposed to be Dali take on Snape-Harry? ^^;;;

The thing about bringing up a child is that it's a mixture of so many internal and external factors. Are the parents of Harris and Klebold to be held responsible for the Columbine shooting? Or did they try their best but the kids were inherently flawed anyway? It's like, you can do your best, but things are never quite within your control? (Which may or may not be a bad thing since you can do nothing but your kid can end up a decent being and winning the Noble prize.)

And! Master Yoda sez there is no try! No or do not! OHO!

Huh. Don't talk to me about being the first born. I'm not only a first born but also the only child. I SO WIN j00 AT THE NUTJOB CONTEST!

(Offnote, the whole "typing" of people by their order of birth is still quite controversial. But I tend to agree how the firstborns tend to be more anal/competitive/reponsible/overanxious bastards. The question is whether it's the result of the first guinea pig in the family. XD)

Which begs the question... how many completely well-adjusted people do you know?

For me, zero. :P We're not completely pathological, but not completely well-adjusted either.

This is why I shouldn't be allowed to post.

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