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24 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short first-person parenting monologue (from a YouTube video) about not overindulging children. The speaker describes struggling with spouse Andy over giving their daughters too much, contrasts their own upbringing with limited resources, and argues for raising resilient, 'tough' children rather than immediately soothing every upset (example: refusing to give a Barbie whenever a child cries).

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Sometimes if you're a parent, we try to give our kids everything, and we try to keep everything separate. And we're like, oh, yeah, well, here. Go buy whatever it is that you want. That was a big struggle with me and Andy. We have daughters. They were massively spoiled. And I would tell them, I'm like, you can't do that. Like, you gotta make them tough. And I'm like, I was raised, like, not having a lot, so I'm like, I need them to be tough. Cause I was tough growing up. So I'm like, I don't think it's okay for you to give her a Barbie. Every time she stubs her toe or she cries, I'm like, okay, what's gonna happen when she has her first heartbreak? What's gonna happen when she runs into something? Is she gonna feel Val, or is she going to feel like her world is about to crumble?