I’m serious. Nothing he does is even close to age-appropriate. He has never lived alone in his life.
His girlfriend is 18, he thinks shouting degrading insults on Halo Infinite is just the most hilarious thing in the world, and he thinks making lame Lets Plays on Youtube is gonna blow up and make him rich.
I guess I’m confessing that I’m a bad father. As a professor, I have criticized this kind of thing in society all the time.
The infantilization of young adults. I get that there isn’t a set way a 27-year-old needs to act but geez, at least do something practical to be self-sufficient.
And I argue with my wife about this all the time. I feel like a hypocrite sometimes.
Netizens’ comments
- I am convinced that some parents will quite literally “love their child to death”. The desire they have for their child to not have to face real life will enable them to watch their progeny waste away. Make a decision. How much do you love him?
- I remember reading or hearing the saying that as a parent, our job is to raise our children in such a way that they don’t need us.
Or another way of saying it is parenting is the only job where, if done properly, you aren’t needed.
- The sad part is that some parents have no life outside their families and then they cannot imagine not being needed by their kids.