Jimmy Carr nails tough-love parenting: “Hard choices now, easy life later.”
Kids want TV, junk food, instant fun. Give in every time = “fat, stupid kids.” Real kindness isn’t caving in the moment—it’s loving who they could become more than who they are right now.
So sometimes you gotta be “a little bit mean” in the moment to build disciplined, capable adults.
The kindest parents aren’t the nicest in the short term—they’re the ones willing to absorb the tantrum so the child doesn’t pay for it forever.
Parents: What’s one “mean in the moment” boundary you set that paid off big later? Share your story.
@mymixtapez Parents did a fine job bringing that lad up, he sounds like a really nice guy! 👌🏻. I remember crying with happiness when I got my Raleigh Mag Burner BMX for Christmas! Magical times!
@NadiaWhittomeMP Cruel. How the fuck is it cruel. If you can’t afford kids keep your fucking legs closed. Why the fuck are we paying for 18,000 families with over 6 kids…
You are penalizing hard working people who made responsible choices..
I work often work in neighbourhoods where most who live there don’t work. While I'm up and at it at 7.30, you won't see them before 11, unless they're on the school run, in their PJs, then in their 25 plate car on pip, then straight back to bed.
Old slippers and pizza boxes are strewn about in the streets, weed hangs in the air, little kids play in gardens full of rubbish and broken trampolines. They've all got dogs, they've all got phones and everything else. I'm 50 almost, and working since before I left school is taking its toll.
On Wednesday Labour are going to fuck me, you and every other worker over again to pay for this shit show, raising other people's kids and feeding and housing an invading army of people that hate us and abuse our women.
We're fools to put up with this, history will view us as idiots if we do.