Apologies, your lead in made me jump to an incorrect conclusion about your motives.
There’s sadly a lot of very vocal people who would claim all a kid needs are bootstraps and a can-do attitude, and if they don’t succeed in life despite every obstacle in their way, they deserve their suffering somehow for making “bad decisions.”
I just asked a question. I wasn’t trying to make any points.
Apologies, your lead in made me jump to an incorrect conclusion about your motives.
There’s sadly a lot of very vocal people who would claim all a kid needs are bootstraps and a can-do attitude, and if they don’t succeed in life despite every obstacle in their way, they deserve their suffering somehow for making “bad decisions.”
I really, really do my best to ask “gotcha” questions.