bitteriidastan:

alwaysadolphin:

kataramov:

that reminds me of that post that was like “um, you have to let babies cry it out overnight so they learn self sufficiency. don’t let them manipulate you”

babies. don’t have. the mental complexity. to manipulate people

this is a barely-conscious creature that relies on you for every single aspect of survival and you’re applying complex psychology to it like it’s out to get you!!!

I’ve always said this, but the vast, vast majority of people are completely unfit to be parents

a baby: *plays peek-a-boo with me*
me, in horror: this infant is attempting to bamboozle me, in my very own home

Also I may remember this wrong, but psych studies indicate that ignoring/leaving kids on their own when they start crying, or try in other ways to call out for their parents attention is actually harmful to kids, because by having their requests for attention in a stressful situation ignored, they perceive their parents as uninterested in them and their pain and it puts them in a favourable position to develop attachment-related anxieties and similar.

tl;dr children entirely depend on parents and they literally don’t have the cognitive abilities to manipulate them. If you think of kids as tiny manipulators who wanna ruin your life, don’t have kids. It’s THAT simple