“In Japan, the idea is that children are the collective responsibility of society to keep safe. It’s a choice that they made. For the life of me I can’t decide why we’ve chosen something different”
Baby boomers did a pretty good job teaching their millennial daughters that they could be anything they wanted to be and a pretty terrible job of preparing their sons for what that would mean for them as husbands and fathers
Airbnb landlords are like “how come no one wants to book my house??” maybe it’s bc you evicted a family of 4, converted their home into a shoddy duplex, filled it with clearance bin TJ Maxx decor, and charge guests $200 for a cleaning fee, all bc you don’t feel like getting a job
It's wild to me that after C-section women aren't provided w/ PT/OT, and are told to essentially figure it out after their abdominal wall has been violated.
Kids aren’t responsible to know how to navigate their parents tempers, mood swings, and/or bad days. If you grew up thinking otherwise, this could be a key indicator to why you feel overly responsible for other people’s well-being while unknowingly neglecting your own.