re: #221 ggt

The thing is that you don’t have to answer any of the questions your kid might ask. Or you can answer by not answering.

We always told our kid that what we did shouldn’t have any bearing what he does. He has to make his own choices.

Now that he is older we talk more freely. He is actually the one who is uncomfortable hearing what we did.

HA!

Yeah, that’s pretty much my folks in a nutshell: “We’re not going to say ‘Don’t do that,’ but we’re not going to hold your hand either.” To some kids these days, that would be an open invitation to get away with murder, but I never gave into the temptation. Never drank, never did drugs stronger than caffeine and Tylenol, and never engaged in less-than-legal activities besides speeding now and then. Though I’m pretty sure part of it also has to do with my grandmother, who has mastered the art of the Guilt Trip.