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26 I’m in my 60s and the hardest thing about being a parent wasn’t the tiredness or the responsibility, it was watching my daughter expect good things to happen to her and realizing I’d spent my entire life bracing for bad ones, and I have no idea how to teach her something I never learned.

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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 04/22/2026 22:12 EDT

I’m in my 60s and the hardest thing about being a parent wasn’t the tiredness or the responsibility, it was watching my daughter expect good things to happen to her and realizing I’d spent my entire life bracing for bad ones, and I have no idea how to teach her something I never learned.

A retired electrician in his 60s reflects on watching his granddaughter expect good things to happen, and confronts the lifetime of anticipatory anxiety he inherited from his own father — and what the research actually says you can and can't pass down.

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