[neumann_alfred]

Don't deceive them, let them be kids, yadda yadda are almost funny to read. Like you said, walk a mile in the parents' shoes.

Or, have had the luxury of having great parents who never bothered playing such mind games with you. Of course, since such gifted parents are rare, it's easy to simply dismiss such a high standard. But once you go non-bullshit, it's just hard to go back.

[incision]

>Or, have had the luxury of having great parents who never bothered playing such mind games with you. Of course, since such gifted parents are rare, it's easy to simply dismiss such a high standard. But once you go non-bullshit, it's just hard to go back.

It's interesting that you're responding from the perspective of a child to a statement from the perspective of a parent.

Do you have children?

[neumann_alfred]

It's interesting that you're responding from the perspective of a child to a statement from the perspective of a parent.

Yeah, it's almost as if it's a relationship between two humans, instead of a one-way input pipe.

Do you have children?

What makes you ask? That I respect kids more than quite a bunch of folks who are actually raising some? Or is that just an attempt to dismiss what I said without addressing it? That shit is getting real old.

[ahupp]

Or, they did the same stuff when you were 4 but being an irrational 4 year old you never noticed.