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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Nice Zeiss Optic
 
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Crazy part is I know more than a few parents who don’t / are jealous

Edit..reword

Big difference between parents and dad's. I would think overall a majority of Mom's are jealous of their daughter's looks/beauty, I've seen it plenty.

I also think overall most men are proud of their son's work ethic. I know my oldest is 22yo now and is developing into a man when it comes to physical labor and determination to not stop until the job is done.

We just did a derby style Halibut fishery. 55hours straight of non stop work. He can hang and I'm the one pushing to keep up with the young guys now. First night is pretty easy to work through the second is getting harder and harder.

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Big difference between parents and dad's. I would think overall a majority of Mom's are jealous of their daughter's looks/beauty, I've seen it plenty.

I also think overall most men are proud of their son's work ethic. I know my oldest is 22yo now and is developing into a man when it comes to physical labor and determination to not stop until the job is done.
I have a different twist on the "Dad" thing. Yes, a great many if not most Dads know how to raise/treat their children such that, in the end, they get the respect they deserve as parents voluntarily from the children. They are all on solid ground, there.

However, there are some Dads, (mine chief among them) that tend to harbor the wrong expectations of their children and get very (not so much "jealous" but "resentful") when they don't get it.... simply because, they don't know how it works or how to get it. I believe these are parents who didn't receive a lot of respect when they were growing up from their parents, and especially from older siblings (I see that a lot in my family). Therefore, they turn to the one group of people from whom they always expect "respect/subordination..." their children... their only true subordinates at this point. Everyone else in their life has options.... they can divorce, they can quit their jobs, or sue "bad LEOs" for bad encounters, or not re-enlist in the Military.... etc. etc. etc. A child can't quit or leave (not until they're adults and on their own). So parents expect/demand that subordination and respect. And, sometimes, they'll beat it out of their children if they don't get it.

But Dads (and Moms as well) who do that sort of thing have no clue how respect works. As I've said here many times, respect is something that must be given voluntarily for it to be meaningful. And you surely won't get it by demanding it and with physical force. You may get "obedience" but it's just not the same thing. Not at all. And, later on, "obedience" will turn into "contempt" for the authority.

As for Moms, I didn't see that sort of "jealousy" in my family at all. i saw it a bit more in the "older sibling" relationships, as mentioned above. Unfortunately, that would also turn into the "respect/subordination" problem when those younger siblings would grow up and become parents themselves.
 
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Nice Zeiss Optic
Still not as big and heavy as a USO scope