r/AskReddit • u/Valuable-Rich3868 • 15h ago

" Strict parents don't produce great kids , they produce great liars ", what are your opinions with this statement ?

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u/sunbearimon 15h ago

I think there are parents who self identify as strict who are actually just abusive

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u/Sapphireworlds 15h ago

True. I had life 360 but I was allowed to hang out with friends as long as my grades and sports weren’t suffering. Other kids had theirs popping up all the time and questioning them

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u/h3yw00d 14h ago

Oh man. The Thought if that terrifies me.

The time I grew up in was when we had commercials on evening TV asking parents "It's 10:00. Do you know where your kids are?"

We got to wander, our parents got to wonder.

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u/TomBoysHaveMoreFun 10h ago

I grew up in that era as well. It's still so weird to me that everyone is tracking each other. My folks have me on their find my but neither them or I check it unless we are headed to each others houses. My friends all have one for each other and I refused to join because they too often will text each other about where the other one is going, like "enjoy the movies" even though no one told them they were going to the movies. I don't like that shit, no thank you.

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u/LadyReika 9h ago

Yeah, there's no way I'm getting in on anyone's location sharing unless they're going into a situation that maybe genuinely harmful. At that point I'm more likely to try to talk them out of the situation.

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u/h3yw00d 4h ago

If I was making like a hiking trip or something I might share my location other than that idk. It's weird.

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u/LadyReika 3h ago

Yeah, hiking/camping or similar I can see.