# Polls only: No discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642 "2021-11-01T18:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5839
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5839 "2025-03-31T01:56:23Z")
Two current threads on one’s upbringing, or that of one’s offspring: > [@Anyone have "easy" kids? Perfect parents?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-easy-kids-perfect-parents/1015026): > > If so, how do you define/explain it? My eldest daughter (the only of 3 of our kids to propagate) is going through stuff with her 2 kids - ages 5 and 10. Nothing terribly horrible - just strikes me as the kinda shit we went through with our not terribly easy kids, and my parents likely went through with me and my sibs. My kid talks about the difficulty w/ screens - which admittedly is a greater issue than in the 90s/aughts. And today’s culture seems to reflect the kids’ emotions/agency (poorl… > [@Specific question about estranged families](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/specific-question-about-estranged-families/1016308): > > Everyone I know has a story about their estranged family, but I’ve noticed something a bit odd about some of these stories, the ones that involve grown children who have cut a parent dead, often a parent who is completely puzzled by their grown child’s decision. In such cases, my (admittedly small) sample of puzzled parents have been inordinately generous. They have left businesses worth literally millions to the child, they have bought them houses, they have made them their sole heirs in their … 5 = great, 1 = awful: _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5839))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5839))_ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642)._