This statement is a guilt trip. Plain and simple. And it is 100% not your responsibility to fix it. 

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Parents making their kids into their personal therapists is common in our culture, more common than we care to admit. but that doesn't mean it should be normalized... becoming responsible for the emotions of other people impact self-esteem and can make young children desperate to please. 

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Is the mark of a good student how well they score in exams? Well, the answer is pretty obvious, it's a clear "yes." But there are a lot of other factors that we don't consider, like learning disabilities and environments, which can all affect a student's performance. Despite these factors having a significant impact on them, we all measure kids on ONE single metric: how well they score. Is that fair? 

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I'm sure it's a lie many teachers and parents would like to believe... but creating a toxic class and home environment is right up there with the many things kids have to worry about, so no. It's not just studies. It's the pressure of expectations, the dysfunction at home, the unnecessary hostility from teachers... all of it. 

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This phrase is a guilt trip, plain and simple. It's an abusive way of shutting down any argument or valid concerns you have and bringing the spotlight back to a narcissistic parent or teacher. You really don't need to spend any time validating them. 

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Preparing us for college is less about giving us the tools we need to navigate a completely new world and more about training us to take abuse and humiliation under the guise of "good advice." Good advice doesn't sound anything like yelling, and if it ends with, "I am shouting at you for your own good," then... no they aren't. 

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Who set the standards of beauty for us? Are the usual metrics we use for measuring health actually useful for us as South Asians? While our relatives and teachers claim to "mean well", this statement can be incredibly damaging, and whatever they say about weight, height, or skin colour is not actually founded on real logic. 

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Why do teachers and parents get so offended by children dressing up or finding new ways to express themselves? Is it actually wrong of us to break these rules or are these rules simply useless? 

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Welcome to Full Badtameezi, where we work on breaking down harmful traditions and forming new habits that reject toxicity and allow us to embrace our real selves, no judgement.

We have been conditioned from a very young age to conform. To parents, to a broken education system, to a flawed job system, from a young age we are taught to obey and never think for ourselves.

Well... all that's about to change. We're going to get real controversial up in here, but I say it's about time!