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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
You know this is an interesting possibility: your parents are keeping score. I wonder how much of knowing about your HS class is about what kind of parenting you came from. This might be middle class intensive parenting over the life course? Because Vivian did not care lol
I mean you don’t just turn this off because your kids graduate:

theatlantic.com/family/archive…
Yep I am going with:
1. I was an introvert
2. I was passing though most of life
3. I don’t care
4. And I’m not a product of intensive parenting

Thanks, everyone. I will try to remember you in the coming years at Twitter Reunions.
And what I think y’all are attributing to small towns is mostly intensive parenting, y’all.

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