haroldfinch

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[โ€“] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 6 points 21 hours ago

Or I dont know... an embassy ๐Ÿง

[โ€“] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 14 points 1 day ago

My own father was harsh, complicated, difficult to deal with.

I always thought I'd do the opposite.

What I learned later on was to ask my own children what their day was like, what excited them, how I could help them when they needed it most... and then you need to listen. Even if they're asking silly things, things they have yet to learn, that's how you find that connect.

And to some extent I try to balance the discipline by thinking, if I drop dead tomorrow, will I have prepared them as best as I could to become their own person? Will I have done it in a way that they'll remember me fondly?

So far my kids have always said I am a great dad, all the same I ask myself if I could do better every day.

I think the question you started with here is the most important one though, how can you do great/better.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by haroldfinch@feddit.nl to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
 

In case somebody needed a reminder of this today, there are in fact: ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก

[โ€“] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is such a missed opportunity.

The barrel should've been a Tribble.

[โ€“] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wonderful confirmation.

To think how hard it is to confirm these planets, for such a relatively close star. When we have already confirmed so much about objects at far greater distances.

Hard to comprehend these achievements from our individual perspectives. ๐Ÿ‘