# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 2
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/dliy3pq
[All in Our Genes: The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) podcast](https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/all-in-our-genes)
> ... So, the implication of this is not that parents don’t matter. They do. Kids can’t grow up by themselves. Growing up, as Judith Harris used to say, who wrote this famous book about shared and non-shared environment, The Nurture Assumption is what it’s called. She says parents matter a lot because it’s a large part of the parents’ life and the child's life, and the relationship is very important. But you don't become a parent to mold your kid to be what you want it to be.
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> I think the genetic message is find out what your kid likes to do; help them do it; but mostly, enjoy the relationship. I think a good analogy is if you married someone because, you said, “Well, there's some good material here. I'm going to make him into someone that's really to my liking,” it’s a recipe for disaster. But that’s what so many parents do with their kids. They think that the way their kid turns out is just due to the way they parented them. That’s really bad...
> ... I love the idea of thinking of yourself more as a resource manager. Find out what they like to do and help them to do it. Increasingly, I think appetites, what they like to do, is equally important to aptitudes for something. And it’s a virtuous circle as well, you like to do what you’re good at. But parents should notice that and help them go in that direction because you love them, not because you want to make them into something. You just do nice things. You help people that you love. That’s the way the parenting relationship ought to be. I’m sure it’ll work out better for both the parents and the kids if more parents had that point of view...