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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Apr. 13 - Apr. 19, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 April 2015 02:24:39AM 0 points [-]

Sounds like too many parents being a bit undisciplined and giving in too easily.

No, it sounds like a lot of parents prefer to have happy kids without a message rather than unhappy ones with one.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2015 12:02:25PM 1 point [-]

Happiness is not simply getting what one wants, often it is closer to learning to be content with what one can have. Seriously, simply fulfilling childrens wishes, hoping this will make them happy would be seriously bad parenting, they would quickly become spoiled and basically want everything right now, the difficult yet necessary trick is figuring out how to make them happy while not getting everything they want to.