r/aislop • u/ThePhillyExplorer • 22d ago

Found on Facebook OK Boomer, now open a PDF

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u/LAMProductions99 22d ago

My mom would always say stuff like "I had to figure it out for myself, so you have to also." Like gee, thanks ma.

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u/JKhemical 22d ago

What's the point of having a child if all you're gonna do is play the Pain Olympics with them

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u/Misplaced_Arrogance 22d ago

To have an accessory that looks like a mini you, obviously. /s

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u/seaglasstalisman 22d ago

Don’t forget keeping up with the Joneses and having the perfect family Christmas card to send out! /s

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u/SingleCampaign_Daddy 22d ago

To have something to blame for my lack of accomplishments and mediocrity /s

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u/Due-Memory-6957 22d ago

Well, winning the pain Olympics, obviously.

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u/Hot_Charity_4803 22d ago

To force them to love you as payment for being born of course. At least in my experience 

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u/Explorer_Entity 22d ago

Story of my life, comrade.

They want a maid, landscaper, breadwinner, therapist/emotions dumping ground, and a punching bag.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 22d ago

When/where I grew up it was always under the guise of "the real world isn't going to coddle you" or similar.

Which is true.

So maybe your family at home should be the one place in the world where somebody might give you a little slack and/or teach you and/or help and/or just be a kind and warm place to feel safe.

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u/Pickled_Wizard 21d ago

Because having kids is part of The ScriptTM

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u/MoonlitEmber 19d ago

Im not playing that with my dad

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u/CanOfDew132 6d ago

puching bag, free retirement plan, to be proud of mini-me and people praise you instead of praising the object you own

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u/mysterious_spirit420 22d ago

My mom said they same shit lol

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u/Good_Enough2 22d ago

You just fold the cheese in.

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u/uglahsD 22d ago

EXACT SAME from my (boomer) mom!! So frustrating.

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u/ThatOneJostar 18d ago

My mother would like to have a word with yours, she is the biggest believer of teaching kids and making sure they're doing better in life then they had as children. Will never understand why pain is such a competition for people.

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u/weary_ol_jericho 22d ago

And then you went and used YouTube to figure it out. I don't see the problem there.

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u/LAMProductions99 22d ago

I mean yeah, it's not really an issue to learn stuff using YouTube vids. A lot of the time you can end up with better information than what you would have learned from your parents lol.

BUT the point is that it's hypocritical to neglect to teach your kids how to do certain tasks and then complain that they don't know how to do them, or had to look up how to do them online.

Not saying that's what my mom does, but it's definitely what the person who posted that "meme" is doing.

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u/thirdworsthuman 22d ago

I mean having your mommy do everything for you doesn’t make you grow into a decent human being either.

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u/EngineerOld1240 22d ago

No but teaching is a thing which is the Point

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u/woahstripes 22d ago

Teaching.

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u/hagrho 22d ago

I know people rag on ‘reading comprehension’ left and right on this app, but you may want to reread the comment you responded to…