40 Ridiculous Things Parents Engrained In You As A Child, Shared By This Online Thread

I thought it was weird that I was asked why I need 2 towels when I'm visiting other people. My mom used 2 all the time. Since I shed like crazy, a separate towel is needed otherwise I would get stray hairs all over me.

My attitude is: I'm doing the laundry and I'll use as many towels as I please. :-)

Lolz at people saying that using an extra towel is "wasteful". How? If you use a towel ONLY to dry your hair, how often do you need to wash it? Once a week? Once a month? You're hair is clean, after all.

we've always been a two towel family (women only as the men don't have much hair)so I always found it weird how stingy people are with towels.

I usually use only one, even in hotels. But always give two for my guest. I think it’s a waste.

It's obviously a problem in most of society as you hardly see baby changing rooms in mens public toilets but they have been and always are in ladies rest rooms.

It's also seen as unmanly for a man to care for or show love to his kids. It's quite sad.

I wonder why there are a lot of request to close womens shelters cause "they are sexist" but no men fighting whith me when i ask this kind of perks...i already written letters to all the mall near my home, no man is backing me, moms are at least sharing on fb...

I have found I view men struggling with toddlers different from seeing women struggle. For him it is Wow what a good dad, a woman - just another day. I am trying to change it to Wow what a great mom / or dad.

Not the main point, but still related so I think worth saying - I read somewhere that with these instinctive reactions, your first response isn't really you. That's habit and engrained thinking, as the poster said. It's your second thought that matters the most. Not that the first thought doesn't matter at all - we can and should work to shift our outdated thinking - but it's a way to give ourselves grace to have an instinctive response, but then be conscious about what we ACTUALLY think and what we then DO with that thought. Applies to things like racism and sexism and so on as well. Some of us have stupid instinctive thoughts from years of habit - while we absolutely SHOULD work to move from that, there's power in recognizing it, rejecting it, and consciously having a different response.

That can cause issues around food like eating disorders/habits.

And worse: that you *have* to eat certain meals, just because. E.g. you *have* to eat breakfast, you *have* to eat 3 meals a day, etc. It took me decades to figure out that I’m allowed to not eat if I’m not hungry.

No if you are in a poor society such as ours, throwing food out is unforgivable. You either package it and give it away or you put it in the fridge if you have space or have a fridge at all.

We shouldn't waste food. Especially meat.

My mum was like that. We were in a poor country and she was on her own. I would throw up frequently as portions were always adult size and dinners were often close to bedtime, there were no kinds friendly meals. I ended up with a chronic gastritis for decades and found out when I was adult that I have dairy allergy that my mum knew about since I was born but completely ignored it for most of my childhood. Don't force your kids to eat.

"Nobody else will hire you" is so effing wrong and another attempt to shut employees up and keep them hostage in their sh!t job. I've been told so many times that I would never get a job again if I walked out of this job. I still walked out and always got a new job within one week.

Unfortunately with poor employees rights in some places and lack of jobs the top paragraph remains true.

Everytime someone asks me what I think about them finding another job to replace the one they hate, I always say "you were looking for a job when you found this one". Then I ask what their favorite job was in their life, that was actually life sustainable and when they say, " you were looking for a job when you found that one." Finding jobs today isn't the real problem, not so horribly, just the right one. You can find another. But, you must be actively looking, and having even a sucky job, makes it easier to hold out to find a great one. That's how you use a terrible job to find the best one of your life! Thanks for coming to my TED talk, whatever that is.

Told to us by people from a generation that had never heard of layoffs and where companies actually paid pensions upon retirement.

This comes from, “be happy to even have a job” generation.

No it doesn’t. I’ve known people who would go to church every Sunday, then think it was okay to do whatever they wanted the rest of the week, even if it was wrong.