#and IDK maybe their methods were bad but this isn't the bad parenting stand I'd be queueing up for

[maeamian]

Listen, I’m not here to defend everyone’s dad or anything, but when you’re driving at night, how well you can see is a pretty important factor in how much you don’t die while you’re doing it. So when someone, without warning, turns on the interior light in the car, thereby both throwing off your dark acclimatized eyes while also causing the interior of the car to become significantly more reflective to the windshield you’re looking out, that’s a problem especially if you want to not die, or even possibly want to have your kid in the back seat not die. 

Anyhow, this is where I’m unwilling to go further in defending any parent’s specific reaction, beyond my own, but my parents were pretty fond of explaining things to us and so I was generally aware of all of that and the rule was ‘if we’re driving at night and you have to turn on the light please let me know so I can prepare and possibly let you know if it’s not a good time’. And like, IDK, not to tell you kids to get the hell off my lawn, and not to justify anything specific your parents did in reaction to it, but is it possible that the reason your parents reacted strongly and harshly to a road safety issue is because it was a major and surprising road safety issue which is the exact sort of thing you try to not have happen when you’re driving? I feel like maybe that was the harshest many people saw their parents because it’s one of the most abrupt life and death situations that many of us have directly put our parents in, no matter what your innocent childlike intent was in creating that major road safety issue.

#Like maybe the car light thing was a flash point for some other shit IDK I'm not trying to get into that #But turning on the light in the car at night without warning is a fucking dangerous thing to do! #So think about your parent's reaction and go 'is that appropriate in response to a clear and immediate danger that needs correcting' #and IDK maybe their methods were bad but this isn't the bad parenting stand I'd be queueing up for #IDK if you have a post about it this isn't aimed at you or that specific post #It's just extremely weird to me that it's so much of a trend #Again not that any given reaction is justified #But like think about the reaction in that context and it probably makes sense unless of course it doesn't #Like I don't even remember doing it not with that but I'm sure I did at least once to get that rule explained and implemented #Although sometimes they anticipated kid logic and shut it down preemptively so maybe not #Anyhow none of this is much of anything except to say that a joke I see on this site makes no fucking sense to me #Like yeah your parents reacted harsher than normal to this????