The patient is amused to see the doctor’s child walk into the clinic to seek permission for going to the movies. The doctor looks flabbergasted, mutters a half-hearted yes, and sees his youngest child run in excitement to share the good news with his siblings.
“Doctor, does every movement at home need a nod from you?”
“My wife takes the easy way out, by shifting the onus on me”, he smiles, “so that she is not blamed for their low scores in tomorrow’s test.”
“Go slow, doc, they have learnt how to catch you at awkward moments making a No difficult.”
Decades later, his son forges his signature to withdraw money from his account, and the almost demented doctor/disappointed father consoles himself. “There’s no connection between the two incidents, and I won’t whip myself for it.’
Doc, you been punked by your own inattention to Parenting 101. Much luck!
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🙌🤣🤣
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Kids are clever in the ways they wriggle out of responsibilities… They will know which parent will probably say yes… And that wife is also clever…
no connection, hopefully…
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They know what is the right time to ask, when a parent would perhaps be embarrassed to say No.
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No connection, maybe, but how dreadful that, now man, forged a signature to get money like that.
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Some children are just born with a different temperament from the siblings, despite having grown up in the same environment.
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The trajectory from asking permission at the clinic to forging it decades later is chilling. What the child learned wasn’t respect for authority, it was how to navigate it, game it, sidestep it.
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Unfortunately, yes. And parents keep covering it up to protect reputations.
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one out of two (of the old man’s final reaction) isn’t bad
the only thing worse than experiencing misfortune in life is being tricked into punishing ourselfs for it happening.*
clue: most have a self-destructive aspect buried in our minds (both deep and shallow) but the ego-centric nature of the base assumption (I caused this) is a hint of where it comes from
thought (or rant*) provoking Six as always
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I guess, yes. Parents often end up thinking, “Where did we go wrong?”
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It happens too often. Everything we do affects our children and how they turn out.
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Too much attention and lack of attention – both are problematic.
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It sounds like his family is manipulating him to get what they want.
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Yes. He is insanely busy and trusts them.
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