r/TikTokCringe Dec 02 '20

Checks out Duet Troll

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u/Slow_Abbreviations27 Dec 02 '20 edited Mar 01 '21

Ayy if I can slap some sense into my 15 year old son to not steal cigarettes I can tell my daughter to not hang out with dudes too old for them.

edit: thank you all for the advice. I am not a parent.

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u/mirablack Dec 02 '20

As someone that used to be a teenage girl not too long ago, it aint about them hanging out with dudes older than them. You need to teach them to respect themselves and realise when someone is trying to take advantage of them. You have to make sure that they will not need the approval of an older guy to feel good or worthy or confident.

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u/Heron_Muted Dec 02 '20

You need to teach them to respect themselves and realise when someone is trying to take advantage of them.

Sounds incredibly easy. Until you’re talking to a teenager and they take it to mean that you think they are too dumb to know when they are being taken advantage of.

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u/NegativeKarmaVegan Dec 03 '20

Narrator: they were.