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Parent Reflects on Being Confidently Wrong About Their Kid
Original: I’m not embarrassed that I got it wrong. Kids figure themselves out in drafts, same as the rest of us. What embarrasses
A parent is reflecting publicly on a period when they wrote confidently about their child and later realised they had it wrong. They say they feel no shame over the mistake itself, since children work out who they are in drafts like anyone else, but regret how certain they sounded, describing those old posts as auditioning for the role of a good parent rather than genuinely listening.
Why now: The candid admission of parental overconfidence resonates with other parents questioning how sure they sound about their own children.
Evidence
- I’m not embarrassed that I got it wrong. Kids figure themselves out in drafts, same as the rest of us. What embarrasses me is how sure I sounded. I wrote a whole run of those posts that month. Every one of them reads now like a parent auditioning for the part of Good Parent.… · prismnpen@stranger.social · 2
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