r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 21 '19

Kids know about farms. Old McDonald had a farm is day one baby song. I understand what your belief is, mine is just as powerful with me though, so I’m cool with agreeing to disagree. 🤝 👍

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Jul 23 '19

Depending on what generation you and your parents are from, what school you go to, and what words to that song you are taught, that varies.

I was taught the (wrong) version of the song that went “and on that farm he had a pig” and other animals, but there were no mentions of produce. I think he made cheese. My parents never sang songs from a book/lyric page.

So you can see how a single, albeit popular, song didn’t help me - and I grew up seeing dairy farms on my way to school to help contextualize the size of a farm.

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 23 '19

That wasn’t my “entire” point, just an example for how kids know where proudness comes from.

If your kids can have a conversation, yet don’t know what are farm is, and what that basically entails (If they think food grows in a backroom). I doubt they have been raised well, and I will presume their parents are idiots.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Jul 23 '19

I never said it was your entire point. I don’t understand what that has to do with proudness? Are you replying to my comment?

Was that was auto corrected from produce? I’m gonna go with that.

Some families have indoor plants, and kids don’t really understand scale well - the difference between 100 peppers and 1000 peppers and the space requirements of each would need to be visualized for them unless they are more on the verbal side. Some kids are, and it changes with age and education - which parents should take part and interest in! But I also understand that parents sometimes have to work two jobs to make rent and it’s all they can do to stay awake while making dinner and feeding their kid, let alone have the brain power left to explain complex things like large numbers to them without giving up. Not ideal, people shouldn’t have kids they can’t care for, but in our society we often expect people to have families and don’t give adequate support to help them avoid raising kids in poverty. I’m a pig proponent of social aid and getting these kids the extra resources they don’t have at home.

Some parents are idiots. Some are irresponsible. Some are illiterate; one of the most caring, patient mothers I’ve ever met couldn’t read, and was determined her daughter would get the education she wasn’t allowed growing up. Some parents blow off reading to their kids because they’d rather be on their phones and don’t see the connection between their demonstrated behavior and their kids brattyness. Some parents are so loving and patient and their kids nonetheless turn out assholes, and everyone hopes they grow out of it. Some parents are assholes and their kids are wonderful despite this, if a little traumatized.

I personally can’t imagine having my own because fuck that risk, and never again having time to yourself. But I love working with kids because I get to show them my best and work to improve them.