Posted: Feb 09, 2017 10:36 am
Let me explain to you why your pride is irrational. Say your boy won a trophy in a swimming competition. Why did he win? Was it his tenacious attitude? If so, neither you nor he can take credit for that, as it is the consequence of environmental and genetic influences beyond your control. Ah, you might say, but I am responsible for bringing him up that way! But you're not really responsible for how you raised him - you were only doing what you thought best at the time, and those decisions were formed in your brain according purely to environmental and genetic influences beyond your control. I'm not saying you can't love your kids - there's nothing irrational about love afaik, but pride looks cringeworthy and stupid to me. It's immodest for a further thing.