Habits/behaviours you WISH your parents had ingrained in you

…but they didn’t.

  • Responsibility for personal finance
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The importance of healthy eating and regular exercise.

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  • Being on time
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Mine did try this, in fairness to them

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Doesn’t really matter if nobody’s going to show up anyway, tbf.

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ZING!!!

*BAZINGA!!!

The ability to socialise normally

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good posture

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Definitely this one for me

playing the piano

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Going to the hairdressers and not relying on my mum’s frankly shit hairdressing skills for 18 years.

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A dislike for prodigious alcohol consumption.

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My mum maintains my posture is bad compared to my sisters as they went to ballet, while I went to Woodcraft folk.

Some ambition beyond ‘working in an office’.

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This. Even now I’m really awkward in social situations, especially meeting new people.

long term thinking/planning.

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Yup, ditto that. I don’t think I can remember a single occasion where my parents went out with friends or had friends round when I was growing up. My Dad in particular is very socially awkward and I definitely have that as well.

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Yeah my mum and dad are very much homebirds, dad especially. Nowadays their lives literally live around my niece and nephews.

As a kid I had a very small group of friends I played football with at the rec, but that was about it.

We’ve met, you and Stu(?) seemed a lot more outgoing than I was.

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Some fucking encouragement to prosper in life.