• mriormro@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Every day more and more child development research shows that one of the worst things we can do to our children is discourage them when it comes to participation. Even in jest these sentiments only perpetuate harmful childrearing.

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      1 year ago

      Mine was a joke emphasizing the other extreme and getting the unexpected. If you take a joke response to a joke seriously, it is not my problem.

      Furthermore, the joke is only really a joke if the result is unexpected. You are ironically implying a spoiled child is a reasonably possible outcome when you act so offended over the mere implication.

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        1 year ago

        Your joke is only perpetuating ignorance and it is only really a joke because of that ignorance.

        Someone criticizing your words or actions does not equal someone being offended.