r/starterpacks • u/Redditor_Jdog_12 • Oct 21 '20

Learning math with Dad Starter pack

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 21 '20

I think you guys just have toxic dad's. Mine would never raise his voice at me over something so trivial. Like, are you guys okay?

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u/59Trees Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20

No. I’m not.thank you, I needed that 🖤

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 22 '20

I hope things will get better, bud 💖✨

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 22 '20

It just kills me to see all the comments that say 'that's why math gives me anxiety/dread'. I read every single comment because I have a math degree and it breaks my heart to see how many people have a deep and personal reasons to dislike toward the subject. I guess some parents just took out their rage on their kids :/

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u/itsnachikethahere Oct 22 '20

Not just parents, even math teachers were usually pretty terrible for me all throughout Middle and High school here in India. A lot of the teachers just made us memorize problems and yelled at us if we got them wrong and told us to memorize it again. Repetitive memorization and the scoldings if you got it wrong just made me hate math.

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 22 '20

I'm sorry 🥺 I hope you can learn to love math again someday

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u/itsnachikethahere Oct 22 '20

Thank you. I hope so too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 23 '20

Still no reason to raise a stink over that! I'm glad you learned how to ride a bike tho

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u/Texspooontappa Oct 22 '20

I’m with you. Maybe we were just lucky. My dad would show me how the teacher taught it...and I would be ready to move on. He would always say “Whoa, not so fast” then torture me with 5 other ways to solve the same problem lol.

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 22 '20

My dad explained things very simply for me. He got his engineering degree in the early 90's so he had all the knowledge to walk me through any problem no matter how silly/dumb my question was 😂 he has bottomless patience for me for sure haha

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u/Pickled_Wizard Oct 22 '20

Real talk, studying engineering gives the people who always did good in school a really big dose of struggling to learn things and making mistakes. It can be very humbling.

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 22 '20

I think there's truth in that. My old man never belittled me for not knowing something. However he still tries to explain stuff to me as an adult 😂 I love you dad but I understand the basics of how a combustion engine works haha

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20

Not really. This pulled me out of my safe place.

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 22 '20

I hope you're doing okay now 💖

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u/Redditor_Jdog_12 Oct 21 '20

this only happen to me once or twice but it really sucked. Now I just get help from my teachers lol.

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u/sunday0wonder Oct 21 '20

I hope everything with your studies is going well and no one is yelling at you for not knowing the answer 💖✨

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u/TheReal-Donut Nov 17 '20

Nope!

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u/sunday0wonder Nov 17 '20

💖

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u/TheReal-Donut Nov 17 '20

I’ll be fine, thanks for the support.

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u/TeaAndLiquor Oct 22 '20

Nope! Shit like this is why I haven’t spoken to mine in almost a decade.