# Do you consider your parents as being “better” than you? What about your kids?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-your-parents-as-being-better-than-you-what-about-your-kids/918032>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-your-parents-as-being-better-than-you-what-about-your-kids/918032 "2020-08-14T00:20:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-your-parents-as-being-better-than-you-what-about-your-kids/918032/21 "2020-08-15T17:32:31Z")

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No, my parents aren’t better than me.

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**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-your-parents-as-being-better-than-you-what-about-your-kids/918032/22 "2020-08-15T17:42:57Z")

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My parents are not better than me. Greedy uneducated landlording Republicans. They think they’re good people because they go to church, they’re nice to people (well, white people, and brown people who act deferential).

My kids are still children, so it’s too early to judge. However I can already tell that not beating children is a pretty amazing parenting innovation IMO.

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