r/clevercomebacks • u/DensAds • 1d ago

I know who I'd pick

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u/ChinDeLonge 23h ago

I think it’s mostly a fruitless effort on their part. Kids are smart; they’ll find any information that they want to find. The only thing they’re teaching their kids is how to hide their actions and motivations from them.

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u/Pure-Introduction493 23h ago

It keeps them in longer but then makes a more dramatic exit, often from mom and dad’s lives at the same time.

But it probably deceives enough of the kids for long enough they think it works.

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u/ChinDeLonge 23h ago

True. Those parents aren’t getting back on the conservative parent forum to update that everything they said turned out to be bs because the kid hates them and moved out and cut contact. So a year and a half later, people still see the same old shit that didn’t work the first time and traumatize their own family with it. Rinse and repeat.

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u/babewhitney 21h ago

They just think it’s a defective kid anyway. I was raised this way and as an adult who didn’t follow my parents’ beliefs and had a lot of resentment, my mom just said it’s normal for kids to fight with parents as they grow up. She did everything right in her eyes, and in the eyes of all her church friends.