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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 9563431" data-attributes="member: 30438">Our parents (as I've mentioned before, I have a twin brother) encouraged gaming as a way to expand our math skill, reading, creativity, and socialization. They didn't necessarily understand it entirely, but they saw that it had positive effects.Later on as teenagers, our parents didn't care a bit about us going goth. Dad took a dim view of our musical ability with the band, but he encouraged us to keep at it (just a little quieter). I did have a friend whose mom burnt and threw out any of her goth stuff she found. Let us say that gave that person a ton of trauma that came out in different ways.Some of this stuff is truly horrible in hindsight. Yet if you asked those parents, I bet most would say that they acted for the good of their children. And one of the huge dangers in life is people saying that they are doing good, without thinking about whether they are being kind.</blockquote>