[DMCForum] Re: Wrong-headed laws

["wannadelorean" <mcquinlan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I hear you.  I don't know that geographic location comes in to 
play.  I see it everywhere.  I think it is a product of the "don't 
hit your child" age that we live in.  People don't know any other 
way to discipline there child so if they aren't suppose to hit them 
they think they aren't supposed to discipline them.  We don't hit 
our kids but they sure get a lot of discipline.  All I have to do is 
raise my voice and they know they've done something wrong.  It's 
funny, we get compliments when we go to a restaurant and our kids 
sit and eat there meals like an adult.  I wouldn't accept any other 
behavior.  Yet the kids in the next booth a running around the 
restaurant or screaming and yelling.


40 years old? Man, labor must have been hell on you mom.

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@xxxx> 
wrote:
> wannadelorean wrote:
> > I was like you once.  I hated kids.  Never wanted any.  My wife 
and 
> > I were married 12 years before we had our first.  Now I wish we 
> > hadn't waited so long.  They are the best thing in the world.  
> 
> I don't hate them so much as detest the fact that they're badly-
raised 
> around here. Everywhere I go there's some squallin' young-un who 
needs 
> his bottom smacked, and the parent just stands or sits there like 
it's 
> the most natural thing in the world to have a child who has no 
respect 
> for anyone but himself. If my wife (whoa, that's optimistic!) and 
I ever 
> decide to have children, it will be a serious decision, not only 
on how 
> to raise them, but also how to raise them in light of the fact 
that 
> they'll be raised differently from all the other children they 
know. At 
> the moment however, I'm not even considering it.
> 
> > Farrar, are you an only child?
> 
> No, I'm the youngest of three. But keep in mind that I was 40 
before I 
> left the womb. ;)
> 
> --Farrar

Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

ADVERTISEMENT

---

Yahoo! Groups Links

• To visit your group on the web, go to:
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/
   
• To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
  DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   
• Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.