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		jrott on June 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do you want your children to be like you? A progra... Having a child now makes wanting him to be "like me" seem like such a fools errand at this point. He's so obviously his own person that even if he decided to do things in a similar way to me his path to getting there would be so different that it wouldn't actually be the same at all.

etrautmann on June 20, 2023 [–]

I’m not entirely sure why someone would want their offspring to “be like them” aside from validating their life choices?

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