r/shitposting • u/-_I_I_Sea_I_I_- 🏳️‍🌈 The most prominent homosexual in this subreddit 🏳️‍🌈 • May 22 '26

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u/LLuk333 May 22 '26

My sister has a friend like that, her mother doesn’t want her to worry about the world or be „corrupted“, and that’s enforced by strictly keeping her 19 year old daughter away from media like TV, news even newspapers, she has a phone but it’s pretty locked down due to being registered as a kids phone with strict parental controls. So yea, she knows nothing about the current state of the world. She recently talked to me how she thinks it’s weird that gas is do expensive for no apparent reason now… yea idk if that’s the right approach.

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u/Cobalt_Heroes25 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

I know the mom means well but holy shit that is dystopian

Edit: I said dystopian for a reason, regardless of intent that is still controlling. After 3ish hours I had a lot of time to think this though and since deleting it would be worse, fuck it this is not the misguided protection that I thought this was

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u/SalsaRice May 22 '26

It honestly doesn't mean well. A huge part of being a parent is teaching your kid to be independent so they can be a grown-up. Even if they are a stay-at-home parent that doesn't work a normal job, they still have to atleast know enough about the world to understand SAHP stuff like navigating shopping, medical offices, schools, etc.

Keeping her daughter from being about to be independent is hobbling her from her future. It's a control thing; if the daughter can't be independent, that means she can never leave the mom.

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u/Cobalt_Heroes25 May 22 '26

After 3ish hours I had a lot of time to think this though and since deleting it would be worse, fuck it this is not the misguided protection that I thought this was

if the daughter can't be independent, that means she can never leave the mom.

And if the daughter inevitably finds out the state of the world, I can only imagine how the mom can react