One of our goals is to make life for our kids better than ours right?

I strangled a prostitute with a steel guitar string back in 98. Threw her body in the woods and never heard about it again.

My kids will never get to experience that level of freedom.

Craig James? Is that you?

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One of our goals is to make life for our kids better than ours right? I've wiped my arse with a page from a JC Penny's catalog in an outdoor toilet in below 0 weather. My kids have never done that. Are we better for that?

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At some point you should make it a little harder. If you don’t we keep getting softer.

Solid question.
In my opinion, children need “forced adversity”, whether it’s in contact sports, manual labor, volunteering for those less fortunate, etc.
My children will have stuff I dreamed of (pool/pool house/boat/etc), and I’ll make it a point purposely make their lives harder to build character.
I want to teach my children two things: kindness and confidence. If you have those two things, you can do anything you want in life.

I got lost in the swamp when I was a kid. Learned Never Eat Slimy Worms after that. Some kids today are more lost than I was that day. They just need direction.

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I've wiped my arse with a page from a JC Penny's catalog in an outdoor toilet in below 0 weather. My kids have never done that. Are we better for that?

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Are we? Depends on how you choose to look at it internally. If you choose to see it as if you’ve given your child a better life than you had, then hopefully, you’re “better” as you have leveled-up your kids life.

Now, is your child better off? I’d have to say, unequivocally, they are better off. Teach them the values you want them to live by in order to be a good person, and hopefully they become just that.

They can still have moments in life that teach them things that doesn’t have to be wiping their arse with a magazine page in below freezing temperatures.

IMO…too many parents now are soft on their kids and want their kids to like them 100% of the time. Therefore, they rarely discipline, set boundaries, and say “no” when needed. This does nothing to help the child grow into a functioning adult, nor does it help the parent-child relationship.

If you hate your kids, give them everything they want. Will guarantee them to be shitty people with a disappointing life.

Proud to say my son is absolutely killing it in life. Doing much better than I was at his age

Hmm, what else could you do with pages of the JC Penney’s catalog?