Parenting is HARD.
And know what makes it harder? Every time a parent complains, they’re met w/ judgy responses about how it was a choice they made or how teachers are underpreciated.
No duh.
But also, other choices aren’t met with such callousness when needing commiseration.
And you know, teachers may be criminally underpaid but at least what they do is understood to be a job.
Parenting is a job. But in this society it seems to be understood as halfway between a labor of love artistic endeavor and a selfish self-centered crime.
If you want a future where everyone younger than you is a disaster, by all means, underpay teachers & pretend parenting should be a punishment for the crime of having kids.
If you want people younger than you to be kind, competent human beings… support the people raising them.