My parents were and are pretty fucking awesome parents and just absolutely good people. They just didn’t patronize me, I was allowed to ‘talk back’ and stuff and they’d yknow bother to explain stuff though on occasion of course there was a ‘just do the fucking thing, doing shit that makes no sense is part of life and this is one’ and retrospectively it was something my parents were socially on the hook for as well. And they weren’t hippie although parenting guys or anything, I’m 2 generations removed from sharecrop farmers on both sides and I don’t think anyone in my family has gone to college, my family is like if the Sobotka’s in The Wire had their apolitical predilections set on soc dem, just good fucking union people. They returned hogwaets legacy which they wre gonna get my little cousin (once removed) who’s mom is a Harry Potter adult when i told them about Rowling cause even though they’ll only take the most convenient stands, they’re not giving their 12 year old niece a game that gives jk Rowling money cause it’s a bad example to set for children.

Edit: also my grandfather on my dad’s side was fire chief for the region when women were finally allowed to be firefighters and he was merciless to those who opposed it or felt discomfort working with women. He also previously set up a system of mutual aide between rural fire departments so if there was a big fire several towns in the area could be dispatched. He also worked with cops but he was born in 39 and would consider it in the same line of community spirit. They’re libs but like New Deal/Great Society type liva of yesteryear who now count as demsocs