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What am I doing wrong?

Posted on 05/31/2023 10:38:00 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment

I'm just frustrated. I have 2 older daughters in their 30's. I can't talk to them about any current topic. Everything I say triggers them. Today I got in a fuss defending the gallantry of Southern soldiers. Then I got in a fuss about being a culturist because I believe a substantial portion of the Black underclass in 5 times more likely to commit crimes and murder than other groups. 30 people a week shot in Chicago or New Orleans is OK but DeSantis is a racist. I just said I never see race in a competent individual. I just want to communicate with my offspring. Why are my values always wrong?


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: badparenting; blm; children; cuck; cuckholdedbyhiswife; marxism; offspring; transgender; values; vanity; virtues
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To: Ann Archy

i’m not surprised.


101 posted on 05/31/2023 12:29:06 PM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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To: 2nd Amendment

This is how you teach them. Keep yelling!


102 posted on 05/31/2023 12:30:39 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Have a great day Freepers. You are the best!

I find that a good Scotch or bourbon, neat, results in my GAF attitude towards the confusing politics of my family.

I enabled them by pulling the train, still pulling in fact, but there is no changing in them without their own failures first. And i see that coming, and say nothing.

Sometimes, you have to let the lighted match burn their fingers when they choose not to listen to reason. “Stupid is supposed to hurt”, I believe is the phrase.


103 posted on 05/31/2023 12:35:13 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

You don’t have anything better to talk about with your kids than politics? Really there’s a whole great exciting world to discuss instead. Their lives, their kids, jobs, food. Really ANYTHING.


104 posted on 05/31/2023 12:40:22 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Just rereading this. Your entire premise is starting with a mistake! I reject your question.

It should be “What has gone wrong?” With an added “how can i fix this?”

The answers are” The Universe “, and “no, YOU can’t “.


105 posted on 05/31/2023 12:41:47 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so.)
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To: drSteve78
The answers are” The Universe “, and “no, YOU can’t “.

And whether you can hear it or not, the Universe is laughing behind your back.

106 posted on 05/31/2023 12:42:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Your children know your orthodox views.
You can only respond to their questions, not their predicaments. I am sure you have communicated your worries to them

They are living their lives, not yours, and making their choices not yours. I found this to be helpful to understand the boundaries of my role in my adult children’s lives

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

From The Prophet (Knopf, 1923).


107 posted on 05/31/2023 12:50:29 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: fuzzylogic
Unless they can address all of the contradictions the left holds you can’t get through to them.

Remember Ronald Reagan: "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

108 posted on 05/31/2023 12:59:26 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Chickensoup

Wow! Such profundity on FreeRepublic! Thank you!


109 posted on 05/31/2023 1:07:42 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Brian Griffin

“Keep politics out of your conversation with them.”

Agreed. Why push your children away from you?


110 posted on 05/31/2023 1:13:53 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: 2nd Amendment

Your daughters feel rather than think, as such, discussing anything with them is pointless.


111 posted on 05/31/2023 1:31:15 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

When my daughter referred to an unborn baby as “nothing but a mess of blood and tissue”, I felt pure revulsion at the monster she had become and will never feel the same.


112 posted on 05/31/2023 1:43:54 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: 2nd Amendment

Are you a believer in Moses and/or Christ, and do you know and study your scriptures? Everythink important in the way we frame discussions is in there.


113 posted on 05/31/2023 2:11:44 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: ronniesgal

That was DISGUSTING!


114 posted on 05/31/2023 2:20:50 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Chickensoup

Thanks for this great and wonderful reading!


115 posted on 05/31/2023 2:52:35 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, who state things as fact, but really have no idea!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

“What am I doing wrong?”

Good cognac must be aged properly. Give it more time.


116 posted on 05/31/2023 2:54:12 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

You trusted that government education was education and not indoctrination.

To paraphrase “Animal House” “You F***ed up - you trusted us!”


117 posted on 05/31/2023 2:56:45 PM PDT by MortMan (DILLIGAFF?)
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To: 2nd Amendment; Grampa Dave

Those words got me through.

Boundaries are hard. There is a great book of that name by Cloud and Townshed.

Never venture an opinion unless asked.

Permanent teeth marks in tongue.


118 posted on 05/31/2023 3:24:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Ann Archy

no,implying someone you do not know had an abortion was disgusting.
Go fly a kite.


119 posted on 05/31/2023 3:42:26 PM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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To: ronniesgal

I didn’t IMPLY....I ASKED...Maybe you don’t know the difference. nI feel sorry for you.


120 posted on 05/31/2023 3:44:40 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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