Why Do We Think This?
The Daily Dad
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4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
The exhaustion of parenting is real and understandable. But what's harder to justify is why we assume the worst about our kids.
📚 Book Mentioned: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
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| 1:34.6 | Why do we think this? As long as there have been parents, they have been thinking the same |
| 1:41.8 | things. You know, I'm so tired. Am I doing this wrong? |
| 1:44.8 | How do they make such a big mess? And most timeless of all parents have been thinking, what is with |
| 1:49.7 | kids these days? There is literally a rock inscribed with this very idea. It dates back to 2,800 |
| 1:56.7 | BC to the Sumerian civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, and it laments the latest generation |
| 2:02.8 | in their habits and their disrespect. In Mary Reynolds' beautiful coming of age novel, The Last of the Wine, |
| 2:08.8 | got copies at the painted porch, I'll link to that. Alexis observes of his judgmental and stern father |
| 2:14.5 | that he thought like all other fathers that I was younger and sillier than himself |
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