• NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Us old folks can’t do anything about being cringe most of the time, but we can be supportive and protective of our kids. I think you’d agree that that’s the bigger win here, so good job fellow parent.

    • voldage@lemmy.world
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      Having principles you stuck to that are helpful to the world is never cringe, it’s a display of feeling of inferiority when someone critiques you for having a virtue. They feel that their comfortable bed of lies is threatened when someone shows that it’s not societaly acceptable to be a dick, while they lived their lives accepting that they may sometimes be allowed certain priviledges if they conform to the “norm”. I hope one day we get the world to the place where virtues are rightly celebrated instead of being called cringe.

    • Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com
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      The secret is to embrace having an impaired give a shit. Be excellent to your people, and be excellent to strangers. Stop being excellent when they reneg on the dues for our common social contract, but don’t let them stop you.

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      2 days ago

      I’m sorry but you can’t be both cringe and named NielsBohron :p

      More seriously you (and your OP) sound like the kind of parent a lot of us wished we had c: