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Parental Advice (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by fortniteplaya@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What is a good piece of advice from your parents or that you’ve learned that others may not know or that you wish you were told as a child/teen?

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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's good learning from your own mistakes, but even better if you can learn from other peoples mistakes

Also, there's great benefit if confirming your assumptions are correct about things - so many times we build a poisoned narrative in our minds or decide based on faulty ideas

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 3 points 10 months ago

Learning from others' mistakes is real. I've learned a lot from my dad that way—I say that I've learned to so basically the opposite of what my dad does