Another on kids today

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kei9th

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Re: Another on kids today

PW2 said:
There is nothing quite as annoying as other people's kids.
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i realize that but since i have a two year old i have a little more patience for those screaming children. remember you all were anti-diastblishment-tariunists at one time. im sure i spelled that wrong.
 
avenger79

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Re: Another on kids today

yes when we all grew up our parents would "lay down the law" at an act of disrespect. then some of our peers grew up to be lawyers and studied child punishment laws. some of our peers grew up to be teachers and befriended the lawyers. between the two of them they decided to instill in our children the knowledge that "if your mommy or daddy spanks you they can go to jail for child abuse" kids suddenly feel empowered over you. if you touch me i'll call the police!

teachers have so much impact on our children it is unbelievable. i even had my son come home in tears one day because he thought i was a drug addict. apparently the teacher had been telling kids that cigarettes were drugs and people who smoked were addicts. as adults we know this to be in fact true but, do you tell a child that about their parent.

same teacher later in the year was telling the class how people in the Army had killed many innocent people during desert storm. kid comes crying home again. teacher publicly apologized for that one and said she had no idea any of "her parents" had been involved with Saudi at all.
 
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thrillhouse700

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Re: Another on kids today

My kids are already cowering in the corner when I get home from work. The sound of my truck pulling into the driveway scares them into behaving enough for another 8 hour shift. When they misbehave I make them dig holes in the backyard then fill them. Keeps them busy and away from drugs. Sometimes I will randomly scissor kick one of them just so they remember who is boss. Fear is your biggest tool against these punks.

of course I am just joking I don't have any kids. I grew up military and remember the strictness. I had a somewhat troubled youth but was never hurt or incarcerated. I loved to party and hung out with the wrong people. I think what made me turn out to be a good person is how I was raised. My trouble was only a phase instead of a lifestyle. I think if my parents didn't care enough to teach me the importance of money and responsibility I would have lived that life forever.

I always bought my own stuff, my parents never really gave me anything. (Birthday presents and occasional things aside). I feel this gave me a good grasp of the value of money and the reason I held a job from 15 until now.

Kids these days are given EVERYTHING. Especially in my area (Orange County), its just like that stupid show the OC. Spoiled rotten rich kids everywhere, driving BMWs, Lexus, Benz. They have no respect for anything. They all need to be scissor kicked haha.
 
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Re: Another on kids today

avenger79 said:
yes when we all grew up our parents would "lay down the law" at an act of disrespect. then some of our peers grew up to be lawyers and studied child punishment laws. some of our peers grew up to be teachers and befriended the lawyers. between the two of them they decided to instill in our children the knowledge that "if your mommy or daddy spanks you they can go to jail for child abuse" kids suddenly feel empowered over you. if you touch me i'll call the police!

I have heard this statement often. I don't think it holds much water. This law came in to protect abused children. If the child phoned the police and the police would show up and if it was found out that the child was just throwing a fit to get back at there parent's. The police would scold the child like you could not believe and the child could be charged with mischief.
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ezmobee

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Re: Another on kids today

thrillhouse700 said:
My kids are already cowering in the corner when I get home from work. The sound of my truck pulling into the driveway scares them into behaving enough for another 8 hour shift. When they misbehave I make them dig holes in the backyard then fill them. Keeps them busy and away from drugs. Sometimes I will randomly scissor kick one of them just so they remember who is boss. Fear is your biggest tool against these punks.

of course I am just joking I don't have any kids.
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Reminds me of this awesome T-shirt :)

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muskyone

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Re: Another on kids today

heres what i know. at thanksgiving this year we ate at her grandmas house. when we were done granny asked her 2 yr old cousin to clear the table the girl got up and went to the living room and plopped her but on the couch. my 13 year old bil got up cleared the table and loaded the dish washer. 12 year old girl says suck up boy looks at uncle and says no my dad tought me respect. which i had none of i did as i please dropped out of school and became a drunk 10 years later i woke up. got my ged and now im ok my grandpa did teach me that you go to work you do your job and thank god every day your lucky to be there.
but no matter how much i try i cant get punctuation my mil is a teacher and she tried for a year and gave up i just don't get it.
as you can see iv'e been a member here for seven years and only have 700 posts
iv'e left here for months because it seems like all my post i get insulted for it.
which i find kinda funny because i know the answer to 90% of the ?s asked but have never called someone lazy for not knowing or stupid for not knowing.
my point being i had no fear of my parents and for a long time i was a useless human.
 
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Re: Another on kids today

I looked at my hands and my fingers are all not of equal length, there is a very good reason for that.
 
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cheburashka

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Re: Another on kids today

I wish people would quit mistaking whacking a kid with making that kid a morally upstanding citizen. I've got no problem with people who use corporal punishment if they know what they're doing. However, I get real tired, real quick, of people who imply that the *ONLY* way to keep a kid in line is to hit that kid. My kid's fine--better than all of the spanked and brow-beaten kids in his third-grade class. How do I know? I see his classmates when the spanker is not around. Remove the spanker, and the spankee has no fear at all. Ever watch kids at a Walmart? The ones being spanked every three minutes are the worst. They scream as long as they feel that handprint, then they go right back to being ornery little turds until the next smack. Pretty sad stuff.

To me, it's not about what you do. It's about how you do it--how you plan it out, what you want the kid to do as a result, etc. There are plenty of options out there for parents that are going to bring up good citizens, and at least half of them involve never laying a hand on the kid.
 
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