I'm not sure if citations needed has ever done an episode on articles like this, but as a parent and a leftist it's hard to not start noticing that nearly all parenting "experts" or "success" stories seem to basically boil down to people 'richsplaining' how to raise your kids into successful CEOs and career paths.

I find this incredibly frustrating because this bassically accepts as a framework that your kid becoming a CEO is an inarguably laudable goal, rarely if ever asks questions about how psychologically well adjusted they are as people, and perhaps most importantly never addresses the elephant in the room of the role class plays.

I feel like my entire life, in basically every form of media I've ever seen: helicopter parenting has been assumed as being wrong and harmful. These days it's hard for me not to ask if this isn't just an extension of the culture of "personal responsibility" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps."

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Solid parenting advice would be DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHATEVER ELON MUSK'S PARENTS DID. Everything I've ever read about them is that they are absolute monsters that almost make me feel a twinge of sympathy for Elon.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Everything I’ve ever read about them is that they are absolute monsters that almost make me feel a twinge of sympathy for Elon.

      He continues their legacy of cruelty and emotional neglect. He told one of his sons that having plush toys past the age of 4 was for losers. Yeah, the 50something manchild was shaming a boy for having stuffed animals.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Elon has a trans kid who wants nothing to do with him and IIRC changed their last name.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I call that fortunate. The rest will probably be a lot more traumatized over time.