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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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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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production-line babies; custom, hand-made babies. blue-light special babies.
Date: 2005-02-20 07:36 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2005-02-26 09:15 am (UTC)For me, zero. :P We're not completely pathological, but not completely well-adjusted either.