That's all fine and dandy until they misbehave and you can't follow through by sending them to school on the weekend.
This kid will start pushing this boundary in like 3 weeks (like every kid pushes every damn boundary all the time) and then OP will have a problem on their hands, when the kid decides that OP is toothless.
Sure, it's called Boarding School.
You could try to make up some other shit to cover for it, how school told them that the kid needs to do chores at home for those two days or something. With their system it'd make sense to have a plan for this situation.
Or you just enjoy it while it lasts and drop it when it fails
At some point the kid will talk to other kids and find out they don't attend school on weekends either. Unless they hate school that much that they don't socialize with other kids which would be worrying as well
I totally could send them to school on the weekend.
Saturday is when the schools around here typically have detention. I'll just email the school and have the kid go to detention. Then on Sunday: Sunday school at a church.
This is what the passive income 1% crowd tell the rest of us.
Sure, I fantasize about doing this sort of shit with my kid sometimes too.
But you don't do it.
What, are you saying that gaslighting your young child to do stuff they hate is harmful?
I can't speak for other kids, but being honest with mine seems to work pretty well. "Why do I have to put away the dishes?" "Because if you don't, we won't be able to wash the dirty ones and then we'll get roaches. Do you want roaches? No. So put away the dishes."
Yeah, that's the tack I'm taking with mine. No sense in lying because it's not good for your relationship, and I can't be bothered to keep track of a bunch of lies.
I didn't even like doing Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but my wife insisted. I'm glad that era is over.
Feel you. I got accused by my brother in law of being some kind of psychopath for not wanting Santa in the house.
In their house, my sister is already using the threat of Christmas big brother against any minor hijinks that their kid gets up to.
I have a three year old, so unfortunately, I have another 4 years of this nonsense ahead of me.
I'm not sure if the term "gaslighting" fits here. This just seems like run of the mill lying and manipulating.
Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity.
Gaslighting would seem like it'd be more that if they knew weekends were a thing befohand then you'd lie that they imagined it all (and that they might even be crazy for having thought that).
How to be a shitty parent 101 and Wonder why your kid completely cuts you out of there life ASAP.
They'll regret that.
This works until a Friday when the teacher says “see you on Monday” to the kids
"even the teacher knows I was a good boy"
Or on a Monday where the kid asks another student what the teacher said yesterday.
Yeah let's start teaching them lies straight away
Not like they wouldn't learn anyways. Learning to lie is an important part in development.
Teaching them that lying is totally cool, even about seemingly important things (to the child, anyways) will only teach them wrong lessons about lying.
Oof, this is definitely a:
Every lie incurs a debt to the truth
Sort of thing. It's not going to be fun when your child understands that there is no school on weekends, you'll lose a lot of trust overnight with this.
That's going to backfire one day.
RIP child's trust.
Not to mention, I mean…other kids talk about how they don’t go to school on those days? Now, yes, I am a super sleuth and a genius, but I’m starting to get the inkling that there’s some fishy, dubious lies going on here.
When younger, my parents made me believe in Santa Claus. Most other kids were believing in it too, and I was getting more Christmas present. So it was cool and fair, even if not true.
But here, the person is lying to his kid to get away with something. Not cool.
But no one else is lying to their kids about this. So the game would be up pretty quick when any other kid in school talks about the weekend. Which…they all will.
doing this is going to make your children hate you when they grow up, have fun with that. you deserve it for being a shit parent
I genuinely think shit like this is what promotes antisocial behavior in children. As in clinically antisocial, not just a synonym for introverted.
Children learn hundreds of new words and new things every week. That’s their entire purpose in life at that age.
Deliberately lying to them about how basic reality works for extended periods of time is likely what causes the neural short circuits of religion and conservatism.
Yeah. I honestly think it's also a fuckup to treat children totally differently from adults. Probably around age 7 they start noticing it and a lot of people resent that treatment.
I think this is another case of a joke that people have taken seriously. There's no chance this would work in reality. It just makes for a funny hypothetical.
I guess for some people the dumber you are the more impressed you are with your own ability to fool a child. Probably because that's the last stage of their child's life where they can still pretend to be smarter....
Maybe this is fun now. It won't be later tho
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