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Different perspectives: as a parent, i’d be living a much better life financially if I didn’t have kids. I have no regrets but it seems like my child-less friends are on track for early retirement while I will continue to grind.
Hey SM1, I just wanted to thank you for your perspective amidst all the other comments. I’m childless and intending to retire earlier than my friends with kids. I just hadn’t thought about it that way… from their POV that could have regret among all the gratitude for their children. Thank you for sharing and it didn’t come off as you blaming your kids at all, don’t worry about the other comments
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It’s not toxic, it’s a fact. Heard from many folks from other cultural backgrounds saying the same thing to their kids. At least they didn’t say your failure was systemic oppression and blame it on other people. We need to count our blessings on how nice it is to be debt free because our parents made responsible and intelligent decisions.
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SA2: my parents are not immigrant parents, they are Asian parents in Asia. Sometimes with immigration you forfeit some advantages, and gain some other advantages. it’s all a calculation your family have to collectively make, and live with.
Reply back “well whose fault is it that you had kids to begin with??”
One thing I’ve learnt is that not all parents know how to parent.
Or were meant to be parents lol (like mine)
Textbook Asian parenting. My parents used to do that ALL THE TIME!
Just toxic parenting. It’s not specific to Asians
Yeeep and because of this I never took a dime from my parents since I was 16 and started working. Still paying off college debt but I did it on my own!
id also like to flip the script -
how would you feel if you had children, and your children felt this way / were talking about yall like this (al comments above)? utterly heartbreaking
Sometimes failed parents are failed parents, even if we understand (academically, mind you) a possible model for the behavior/pathology.
As a parent myself (who paid full private college tuition), I never do. It was wife and my wife’s decision to reward our extreme-frugal selves (kids included) to have our kids start their career debt-free. Also my kids, with their young age, had no choice in that matter. I have friends who gilt their kids about this and I think it is total BS.
If I were you, I would respectfully tell them not to bring up that topic up every time. It is very much appreciated that they supported their child so well, but it is annoying to hear that thing every now and then. I think they’ll understand.
Firewall up. Set Boundaries
I am planning to pay my parents off and be done with them
Mine did. To a point that I had to stop talking to them and kept minimum contact with them because it’s too much for me lol still from time to time my dad sends me paragraphs of texts on these topics and I just have to ignore. Sorry to hear that you’re going through this with your parents.
Same.
This is why I refused to accept any forms of support from my parents 8 years ago.
And nobody asked them to make this sacrifice, it was entirely their choice. Bringing up how much they sacrificed like in OP's case will just make their children resent them.