Try praying about it.

People who go to church are better than those who don't.

That unions were a waste of money. The irony is that my grandfather was super active in his union and mum had a lot of benefits even as an adult lol. And I was recently elected the union delegate for my workplace ❤️.

My parents genuinely believed in rules. My mom taught me to "play the game," by which she meant how to watch how social interactions work and mimic them. I didn't realize until I was an adult that she *genuinely believed* that people would do things like turn in things they found to the nearest authority, partially because it took me a decade or so to unbelieve that myself. That people would be selfish, or theivish, or less than going-out-of-their-way-to-help-their-fellow-man... would never occur to her. And if anyone did it in her presence, she'd just be a Dissappointed 2nd Grade Teacher at them.

I'm fairly disillusioned now, but I do love my mom's view of humanity.

Everything happens for a reason.

No.

I can be anything I want to be.

That I’m the most beautiful girl in the world.

That the civil war was fought solely over states rights.

That they are right because "they're the parent." Hindsight being 20/20, they were often wrong. They just didn't want to admit it.

One day you will marry a random dude and then thou shall cling to him like a barnacle for the rest of your life. Although you haven’t met him yet, you already owe him.

This is hyperbole, but growing up in a religious household, it feels like this is the message.

If you work hard you can be or do anything you want in life.

A lovely concept with pretty much no basis in reality for the vast majority of humans.

That I would become more conservative as I got older and richer.

The police are ALWAYS there to help.




I gotta say, I respectfully disagree.

Children should be seen, but not heard. No, just no.

You need to go to college to be successful.

That I have to earn their respect. I am a human being, not a robot or a servant.

You have to be married to have s*x.

Just ignore the bullies, they’ll stop.

Eat everything on your plate.

Don’t live in a big city right after college.

Later learned that it’s one of the better ways to make large and early career gains as well as easiest to switch companies to level up.

Long sleeved shirts aren't for the summertime!

Sometimes they are.

That powerful people got there due to their work ethic and talent, and have extraordinary insights.

After being in corporate America for over a decade, I know people up top are clueless.

My parents both firmly believed that nobody "but your family" genuinely cares about you or genuinely means it if they pretend to.

Ironically, neither of my parents gave a single s**t about anyone but themselves. They certainly didn't care about each other. Or me.

In retrospect, I'm pretty sure this was some weird manipulative s**t to try to get me to be more dependent on them and lower their risk of anyone hearing about what s****y people (and parents) they were.

Stick with one company for your entire life. Granted it worked out well for the both of them, but times have changed.

Parents don't have to apologize to their kids.