What strict parents actually teach
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- How to be attentive to one's surrounds
- How To project effort
- conflict resolution
- Extemporaneous creative modeling
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The most important office skill was taught by George Costanza: look angry and people will think you're busy working hard.
I found out at a previous position that the best way to get my work done was to be short with people. In that case they wouldn't bother me, and I had more time to do my work.
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I've become so used to it that now I lie to any sort of authority figure or any authority adjacent figure out of habit.
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These are all invaluable survival skills, NGL.
It's the resulting FFF hairtrigger readiness that's fucking hell on the psyche, though.
What is FFF?
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What is FFF?
Fight/Flight/Freeze (though, some even add Fawn to that)
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I found out at a previous position that the best way to get my work done was to be short with people. In that case they wouldn't bother me, and I had more time to do my work.
Your comment does not really fit in with all the rest around here, and I'd gladly watch you figure it out
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Fight/Flight/Freeze (though, some even add Fawn to that)
Ah, okay. I thought you were UAPWE. I was right
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Ah, okay. I thought you were UAPWE. I was right
I am neither a writer nor an editor, though I certainly would prefer to be united (much less "international", for that matter).
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The most important office skill was taught by George Costanza: look angry and people will think you're busy working hard.
100%
Unfortunately, looking angry makes us more stressed over time. Still, worth it if I don't have to talk to anyone
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Depends on what you mean by "strict". I think the meme is about the parents who get angry over little things but don't actually pay attention to their kids much - the ones who just assume that their kids would not dare to misbehave. However when I was in high school, I also saw plenty of kids (often immigrants) who had successfully been taught to work pretty much non-stop. I think their parents watched them (or at least their grades) closely enough that they couldn't have gotten away with anything. It seemed to work well - they got straight A's, never got in trouble, and went to prestigious universities. I can't think of a single one I knew who burned out or rebelled (while in high school - I don't know what happened to them afterwards). However, the ones I got to meet were already filtered, with the low- and medium-achievers not admitted to that school.
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Self-censoring is cringe
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I mean, I know plenty of kids who learned this without strict parents. School staff, daycare workers, business managers, cops... anyone in authority looking to impose rules also taught these lessons.
You'd think nobody on this sub has ever shoplifted before, ffs.
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Ahh
Self-censoring is cringe
I enjoy using slang. Sue me.
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I enjoy using slang. Sue me.
Ok, Susan.
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This one hits a little too close to home...
Also, the word you're looking for might be "abusive" rather than "strict".
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Depends on what you mean by "strict". I think the meme is about the parents who get angry over little things but don't actually pay attention to their kids much - the ones who just assume that their kids would not dare to misbehave. However when I was in high school, I also saw plenty of kids (often immigrants) who had successfully been taught to work pretty much non-stop. I think their parents watched them (or at least their grades) closely enough that they couldn't have gotten away with anything. It seemed to work well - they got straight A's, never got in trouble, and went to prestigious universities. I can't think of a single one I knew who burned out or rebelled (while in high school - I don't know what happened to them afterwards). However, the ones I got to meet were already filtered, with the low- and medium-achievers not admitted to that school.
No, it is about the ones that keep an eye on their kids at all time.
The kids are unable to do anything unless they find way to circumvent all that bigbrothering.
And if they need to lie constantly, they will gain experience in it.
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As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by "strict".
My parents were "strict" in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.
But I've also read about "strict" parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares
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looks like strict parents are the way to fit into the corporate world
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Ahh
Self-censoring is cringe
Every time I read it, I just see it like the momentary pauses that President Obama made in his speeches. Makes it a little more interesting.
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As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by "strict".
My parents were "strict" in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.
But I've also read about "strict" parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah, my parents made us leave our cell phones on the kitchen counter so they could read our texts every night, and they installed software on our computers that took screenshots every 5 seconds.
I wonder why I have issues with authority figures and privacy?
