#unpopular opinions on parenting

[mycptsdstory]

Unpopular opinions on parenting. PREACH!!

#unpopular opinion #unpopular thoughts #unpopular opinions on parenting #parents of tumblr #preach! #i love this #unpopular post #i know this is unpopular #tiktok video #tiktok viral #tiktok videos #tiktok

[creativity-deficient]

“Tweek isn’t a soft uwu boy!! He’s unhinged and he bites people!!” “No way!! Tweek wouldn’t hurt a fly!”

How about Tweek is a complex character who isn’t defined by one singular trait? How about tweek is a generally sweet and anxious kid who typically AVOIDS confrontation but is also a lot more capable than he looks and is more than willing to defend himself and fight for the things he cares about? How about Tweek has WAY more personality and character than people give him credit for and the show doesn’t utilize that NEARLY as much as they should? How about-

#LOOK I’m very passionate about this okay #unpopular opinion but I genuinely think he is (or at least has the potential to be) one of the most interesting characters in this show if #the writers weren’t COWARDS/lh #like especially regarding his home life and relationship with his parents??? #he is SO much more complex than people give him credit for #anyways yeah tweek episode when #south park #tweek tweak

[gxlden-angels]

Bro I hate fundamentalists and culturally-fundie parents they'll say shit like "spare the rod spoil the child am I right haha yea my parents used to have to beat my ass with a switch almost everyday but I sure did learn my lesson" but like??? no you didn't??? you were hit multiple times for something you very obviously did not, in fact, learn

Like studies about how harmful even lightly spanking children is aside, you're literally contradicting yourself?? Some even admitted they got worse as they got older cause they wanted to see how far they could push their parents before they got punished

And studies not aside, you're gonna get child raising advice from the same book that tells you to stone your wife if her hymen doesn't break on your wedding night instead of the decades of research we have now?? Just say you're a bad parent and move on my guy. Skill issue

#bro I had a coworker go 'unpopular opinion I think some kids really do need beatings' and I'm like???? #unprompted???? what's going on there???? #well anyways I ended up going 'yea so I plan on specializing in play therapy with autistic children so I've been learning about talking #to children and the ways their parents and environment affects them' #and they're like hmmm but beating this kid with a stick after they broke something or I upset them to the point of yelling is good actually #had a boss say it taught him and his kids respect cause they were hard-headed #and I'm like?? that's fear not respect! they fear punishment! they do not act out of respect for you! #he's a conservative christian black man tho so he's like 'But Authority!' like bro I don't even respect you what are you on about #'You don't respect police and their authority?' Nope! I fear them! I do not respect cops and every cop/cop-adjacent person I personally know #has reinforced that for me #'We'll agree to disagree' Cool! Doesn't mean you're not wrong! I could believe trees aren't real but that is in fact incorrect #then he pulled out the bible verse and I was like ah okay I forgot you like 'here's how to treat slaves' book you're so right bestie #I'm totally wrong now and so sorry for doubting you and your 2000+ year old book I don't believe in <3 #They'd go 'well I turned out fine!' then say something that directly contradicts that #anyways I need christians to get their grubby little hands off the current state of Child Protection and Rights in the U.S. #So we can actually start working on helping kids without the force of christian hands suffocating them #cause homeschooling and child raising by evangelicals are so fucked up bro I'm tired of this shit #I'd only stay in my current state to help children get out of that cycle since I'm in the bible belt #ex christian #religious trauma #child abuse tw

[imviotrash]

"Oh, my strong and beautiful wife! You have no peers in your way with swords."

It occurred to me that I have drawn the (modern) Midford kids with their partners a while ago.

And well, I had to do the whole family. So here's Frances and her Husband Alexis!

(uuugh they're so cute)

#i would die for them #I need to meet whoever designed the swords in kuro #they're so cool!!! #also unpopular opinion but the Midford parents are so much more interesting than the Phantomhives #kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuroshitsuji fanart #francis midford #frances midford #alexis midford #Midford #vio draws #alexis leon midford

[skywing-human]

The last time Lain and Tiadrin saw their daughter, she was a little girl 

Now, she's a woman

#I seriously have nothing against Rayla's parents but bro this is hard #SIR MA'AM YOUR DAUGHTER IS BEAUTIFUL MY BLESSINGS #I need them to cry super hard when they see the beautiful adult woman their daughter has become #Runnan and Ethari will also cry a lot when they see her again #fanfics have created a lot of expectations it's the only thing I'm NOT going to settle for #and unpopular opinion but Runaan and Ethari have more parental rights than Lain and Tiadrin but I don't hold grudges #Then there's the funny thing that her boyfriend is a human mage #rayla #moon fam #tdp rayla #tdp ethari #tdp runaan #rayllum #tdp #the dragon prince mistey of aaravos #the dragon prince

[the-gray-ghosty]

Don't think about Sam teaching Jack to tie his shoes, don't think about Sam making Jack lunch and showing him different types of food, don't think about Sam tucking Jack into bed at night and comforting him after nightmares, Don't think about Sam becoming the parent he wished he had as a child

#parent sam winchester #angst #and fluff #jack kline #sam and jack #sam is jacks parent #cas is also but sam cared about him the most and protected him at the begining #<unpopular spn opinion lol #mine

[angesaurus]

SPRING BREAK!

#kids today are WILD #parents not parenting at all 😅 #it’s so sad #you’re the parent they are the child #unpopular opinion my kids are not my friends 🫠

[acerdime]

Alfred Pennyworth is a Bystander

Feel free to present new evidence to me (politely) from DC media if I get stuff wrong, as I have limited information. All I ask is an open mind.

Considering how much writing there is confronting Bruce’s abuse of his many children, I am disappointed but not surprised to see an extreme lack of responsibility assigned to Alfred. Alfred’s emotional distance due to his employment and British culture did Bruce a disservice and likely contributed to his emotional ignorance. Yes, he’s very cool-headed, but that’s not always what a child needs. I have seen many comics in which this emotional distance is tempered with warmth but certainly not all. If Bruce (& Jason & Damian) is as abusive as he is in canon, has met little to no resistance, and few to none of the batkids have been parented more by Alfred in response then Alfred has failed in his duty as an adoptive grandfather, parent, caregiver, and responsible adult. Even if he was lacking the title of grand/parent, he has a responsibility as an adult to ensure the relative health, safety, & happiness of the children he cares for. I know people idolize him. He’s legendary, immortal (jokingly or not), badass, sassy, and a jack of all trades. I know he’s amazing. I also know he’s human and every human has flaws. Failure is also not a state of being. Failure is an event or response, what matters is how you react to it. I believe Alfred can learn to intervene in his foster son’s abuse and protect the children in his care.

#dc #dcu #detective comics #alfred pennyworth #unpopular opinion #batfam #batfamily #bystanders #bruce wayne #cw child abuse #tw child abuse #cw child neglect #tw child neglect #bruce waynes a+ parenting

[magnoliasandarson]

Just in Case You Missed It

The Robins were all children. It doesn't matter if you started in the comics, shows, movies, or video games. Every single iteration of Robin was a child. A school age kid fighting fully grown adults that are trying to kill them. Jason Todd died before he could legally get a driver's license (in the US). Bruce Wayne is a coward for allowing/enabling children to become vigilantes instead of putting them through therapy.

#personally if my kid said i wanna kill someone i would put them in therapy #bruce wayne is a bad parent #but hes batman so no one cares #yeah the robins are cool but theyre kids #unpopular opinion #i still love the robins #they need therapy #bruce wayne needs therapy too #team no child soldiers #jason todd shouldn't have died #no dead robins #dick grayson was ten #thats not ok #dc comics #batman #robin #dc characters #dc universe

[tradgirlmom]

Being a Trad Wife is probably the best thing you can be for your children.

♥︎

If you want to create a better place, start with raising better people, and protect them as much as possible.

#tradfem #feminine #mumblr #sahm #girl mom #traditional femininity #housewife #loves #motherhood #feminist #pro women #pro children #parenting #controversial #unpopular opinion #trad wife #a lot take it for granted

[fiona-fififi]

I understand why everyone hates the Buckley parents, and I understand why everyone hates the sort of redemption arc they've been given up until now.

But Buck and Maddie deserve parents who love them, and they don't deserve to be hurt by them anymore than they already have been. And as much as I hate them, too, I'd much rather Buck and Maddie be allowed to have this tentative peace where maybe they're not given the perfect kind of love they deserve, but it's enough to mean something important to them.

#as someone who had really fucked up parents who i still love deeply #even though i probably should have cut at least one of them out of my life at several points #i would rather have the version of them who grew a little bit even if not enough than nothing at all #and i know i'm projecting but i just don't want to see maddie and buck have to hurt so badly over them again #unpopular opinion #the buckley parents #the buckley siblings #911 spoilers #random 911 thoughts

[jokey05]

Luke Castellan is still the best tragic villain/ fallen hero of all fiction. And I don't like how the show is doing him, he is too nice, he should be angrier. The Book character is perfect. I don't even think Uncle Rick knows what a masterpiece of a character he created. The only thing that should be changed is his last line to Annabeth, and even that I always read it in a platonic way. But the thing with Luke is that it hits you later. You are so angry with him after the betrayal, after that he is the main villain and does terrible things, and you want him gone, until he is bleeding on the floor still asking for others. Until he dies and you think of May Castellan alone in her kitchen waiting for a kid that is already gone. Until Percy asks for the drape.Until you read the secret diaries and realised how much he cared. Until you read the sequels and see that despite everything Zeus still acts the same. That when it gets you. That where I think the pjo show failed, too much explaining, we need to SEE this character arch. He should be scary right know, I still think the betrayal scene in the books is PERFECT. Percy is 12, Luke is 19 there is no way they are on the same level, that was a major point in the books. Also another major plot point I don't see enough is how Luke and Percy weren't friends. Maybe Luke had a sorta of mentor role for Percy in the first book, but the fact that they weren't superclose and Percy only got to know him through others is really important for the phrofechy and also what allows Percy to make the choice at the end of the last olympian. They have a much more complex connection that simply hero Vs villain and I wish more people could see that.

#luke castellan #percy jackon and the olympians #unpopular opinion #percy jackson #may castellan #hermes #I made this post because I saw to much Luke slander lately #Like ok he did bad things but 1 LITERALLY POSSESSED #2 after more than 5 years in what is basically a military camp runned by your PARENTS #I would have gone crazy too #The only reason Percy has not snapped is Sally Jackson and the world knows that #bless that woman #So yes next time I see someone calling Luke a p@do or gr00mer and then stannig APOLLO #I'm throwing hands #(not that I don't love apollo he just takes after his father sometimes) #sorry for the rant

[roobylavender]

you've spoken before about disliking when talia gets characterised as a "tiger mom", so i was wondering what your preferred depiction of talia as a mother would be?

this is one of those times where i regret not tagging things bc i used to have an ask addressing this but it's probably ancient by now lol. personally i want to see a talia who really struggles with motherhood due to the fallout of losing out on the opportunity to actually be one in the first place. obv the loss is initially devastating, but she spends the next handful of canon years utterly removed from that responsibility and with the liberty to only have to worry about herself. that forms a huge part of why walking away from ra's is at least somewhat easier than it might have been had she been raising a child under him. talia is beholden to no one and can dive headfirst into her own pursuit of the ideals she wants to see realized in the world. her duty to those ideals entails isolation, exhaustion, and misery, but she's willing to bear all of that if it means she reaches her end goal. and i think taking someone so deeply entrenched in her own sense of duty to the world and suddenly revealing to her that she has a child who needs to be taken care of would be.. really hard? bc talia isn't like bruce. she wouldn't drop everything for that child. she refused to do so in the first place when she saw bruce jeopardizing his duty to the mask in son of the demon. talia would try to be a good mother in the sense that she is emotionally available and supportive and intellectually stimulating. but she's not going to be the mother who looks between the two options of saving the world and raising her child, and chooses the latter. she would try to balance the two however she could, but she would never give up her duty for the sake of only being a mother and to go even further doing that duty would be critical to her definition of motherhood. like this is who we are; this is what we do; if i don't show my child that we have responsibilities to the world bc of the privilege and power available to us, who am i? and that to me could set up a way more interesting clash between her and bruce bc in the aftermath of what he has been through with the first three robins and bruce's general overprotectiveness of his child in son of the demon i seriously do not believe bruce would do anything short of everything in his power to shield damian from vigilantism completely

#outbox #like SEVERELY unpopular opinion i am aware but personally the panels of talia telling bruce to be a more present parent always #make me laugh bc like. it should totally be the opposite. imho #talia's like that person who goes to war every day only for the loss of love and time to keep her up every night #a modern day hektor if you will. i remember oomf joked once you could reverse the hektor and andromache roles between #bruce and talia and it would still work. and i agree #i think it's a time thing if anything. over time the roles reverse

[anonymous-unpopular-opinions]

I block anyone who posts public photos or videos of their children, especially if it also includes the child's name or other identifying info. Let kids have their privacy!

Oh I can relate to this one. (As in I was a child, not a parent)

#unpopular opinion #hot take #children #parenting

[cancerian-woman]

What fans expected Elena to do when Caroline told her that she wants to turn her humanity off, knowing the consequences of not caring about anything, possibly ending up killing people and breaking down because of the guilt:

"Yesss go for it queen Caroline! Turning off your humanity is soooo oh helpful and fun it's your time to SHINE! Fuck our previous experiences WE STAN THE CONTROL FREAK!"

LMAO, literally this. Elena’s not perfect! That’s okay, and I do think there is things to criticize her on…..but people never pick legitimate reasons. This ain’t one of them :).

Let’s pretend Elena said nothing. She just watched as Caroline repeated similar behaviors as she did, rushing through grieving, not wanting to process anything, refusing help, fighting your friends and didn’t offer any possible comfort. Then the argument would suddenly be that Elena (or anyone) doesn’t care about Caroline. “No one helped her after her mother died! Nobody cared…” Yes, Elena mentioned her own experience and made a personal connection but that’s literally how some people relate to others who are struggling. A big key(one of my favorite too) to Elena is compassion. She didn’t center herself in the middle of it. Caroline did most of the talking and then mentioned two situations that Elena admitted was a mistake. Elena offered support and told her in a few words or so turning your humanity-switch off won’t make everything go away. Which it didn’t lmao, and Elena understood pretty well that it wasn’t her decision. She just said nicely she wouldn’t let Caroline go through this alone.

But, no lol its somehow everyone else’s fault for trying to help Caroline’s humanity and for being the reason that Caroline burned that damn letter or the stereo.line build up…

Lastly Caroline wouldn’t have made it no year with her humanity off lol. Maybe a few weeks to a month. The plot made sure to force down our throats how much of a control-freak Caroline is and yet she ruined her own damn letter from her mother YET it’s everyone else’s fault?!?!

#elena gilbert #tvd #the vampire diaires #Imma minority in this but i didn’t find Liz death the saddest lol #Could be bc my faves parents been drowned in fountains #neck slit open right in front of his daughter in public #Or unpopular opinion didn’t gaf about liz :) #when Elena messes up yall make sure to heavily critic each action she makes #nobody was stealing Caroline’s agency from her but she did fuck around and find out #dria responds #and Damon is the reason Elena turned it off. he wanted the girl but not the emotions lol #anti damon salvatore #anti delena

[southsuns]

unpopular opinion (as a homeschooler, who had visitation for years, who was physically neglected and emotionally abused in one home, notably NOT the one where i was being taught…) but if you’re homeschooling and you cannot teach your child basic skills and knowledge like reading, writing, math, science, geography, history, if your child cannot tell you who the leader of your country is or where they live at 10-12 onward (And yes, I have and continue to see this among homeschooled people i know) You are neglecting your child. and i KNOW you, as the parent may well be trying your best, and you may not have a lot of options and it’s hard. you may be taking them to all the co-ops you can. but all of that trying doesn’t make up for the myriad of ways the kid is behind. yes i know learning disabilities exist this isnt about that. this is about the perfectly abled 11 year old i know who struggles to write 3 full sentences every day on paper, who finds that the most miserable part of his schooling, this is about the 8 year old who can barely read basic phonics books. who actually cries trying to read complex phonics books (as in, more complex than “mat sat. sam sat. sam and mat sat.”) and these kids are stunted in ways they may not be ABLE to recover from. studies in the limited forms they exist suggest the height of our language acquisition is until 12 or so, and after that point, it is incredibly difficult or impossible to grasp language. and this will affect them in EVERY aspect of their life FOR THEIR WHOLE LIFE. and we act like it’s just an unfortunate reality of american education. i feel fucking bad for these kids. i lucked out and i loved reading and my mum taught me well and we found ways to push through subjects i didn’t like because she knew it was important, or to make them fun by using different books (science via textbook vs “let’s learn about basic physics and science by making a tiny catapult!”) like holy shit. holy shit

#homeschooling #homeschool #neglect #child neglect #education #educational neglect #unpopular opinion #hot takes #hot take #disk horse #ya i am that bitch and yes i have said that about personal friends #and you know what #when their kids turn out emotionally stunted #and educationally beyond fucked #their parents may be surprised but i will not ge