Pearl - April 12, 2025
Muffins Don’t Fix Being a Bad Parent
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Misogyny
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how important it is to have a good relationship with your kids and why it's so important to have good relationships with them. I also talk about why I don't care as much about them as I do about my own kids, and why I think it would serve them better if I didn't care so much.
Transcript
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We have a hard time being a nice person, right?
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We have a hard time, like, just being pleasant.
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So what we like to do is buy things and hope you forget all of the bad things we do.
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And kids can really, I mean, they can be bought, right?
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I mean, it's like, you buy my sister concert tickets to Adele, she forgets.
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you know um so yeah and that's easier than again the hard thing which is like character building
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like men if they don't build their character they get beat up by other men they get taken
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advantage of by women like the life happens to them but women we can just be like nah that's too
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hard I enjoy being involved in my children's activities and in their lives but I also know
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they don't need me cheering them on at every game creating scrapbooks for every milestone
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or welcoming them from home from school with fresh baked muffins in order to feel loved and
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grow secure into well-rounded adults. While they are central to my life, my world does not revolve
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around them. I'm sure they love hearing this. Can you imagine reading this? Did you see what
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your mom wrote about you? She said her life does not revolve around you, nor do I believe it would