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The fact that you’re at odds with everyone else in the thread should tell you everything you need to know, but the entire point of the post was that giving their child something to do solved a lot of problems.

Humans don’t respond well to having nothing to do.

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That’s not at all the moral of the story, because it’s a fair assumption that his child, like most children not experiencing abuse, was not told to literally sit and do nothing prior to being given a shovel.

Think about it for a second. Is there some widespread epidemic of parents forcing children to sit and do nothing? Do we really need a lesson that “hey this thing that no one does is bad”?

The lesson is that kids need physical activity. Not just reading or video games or doing homework. Which is not “doing nothing”.

The fact that you’re at odds with everyone else in the thread

Lemmings are the single dumbest group of online people I’ve ever seen, so that happens a lot.

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Have you ever even met a child?

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A lot of them are on this site, and those ones definitely need to touch grass

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