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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Reading this thread, it seems the biggest mistake everyone has made is having kids.
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Not at all. The mistake is the artificial parenting standards that comes with being a parent today vs. years gone by. The overboard of extra curricular activities, the special diet for your kids or over-stressing over whether they eat too much added sugar / whatever we're worried about now, the anti-screentime decrees, Jillian Harris and all those evil influencers modeling daily what you're family life 'should be like', etc. etc. etc. At the end of the day it's the parents that absorb all of the stress of providing these 'optimal environments' for raising children and asymmetrically this is felt by women because they are externally/internally judged/pressured by society, and socially for it.
GirlySports' post about the parents who hate their lives because they insist on a 'no TV' standard regardless of what it commits the parents time to hits it bang on.