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Abbadon said:NO! I'm runnin' away, and you'll never find me!
Lisa0315 said:Ahh...Kids are so good at emotional blackmail.
BUT....So, are parents!
(Sobbing, I help you pack your bags, telling you how I am going to miss you, and I sure wish you loved me enough to stay.)
Abbadon said:(I wander out the door, head down the block, and realize I'm not leaving my house)
"Ma'am, thanks for the bag lunch and clothes, could you point me to South Carolina?"
Lisa0315 said:Gosh! You were a stubborn child. Your poor Mother!
Lisa0315 said:Since the guilt trip did not work on you, I would become rather stern.
"South Carolina is right back in your room, young man! March your butt in there right now."
Abbadon said:Yep.
(returns to room, making sure that the stash of hidden wooden spoons is still out of sight).
Lisa0315 said:What's up with the wooden spoons? Oh, you think I would hit you with them? So you hid them? No, I wouldn't do that!
Abbadon said:What? That's how I was raised! (No, I wasn't beaten, just the occasional swat when I was REAAAALY bad).
Lisa0315 said:Shoot, my Mother? She used a switch. If you don't know what that is, it is very thin branch from a bush. I think ours was a Forsythia bush. Anyway, the worst part was we had to go get the switch ourselves. Trust me on this. Never, ever get a green one! With my brothers, she used a belt. Different generation, I guess. I sure never felt like she had done anything wrong.
Abbadon said:I've heard this from my parents.
And church members.
And substitute teachers.
So far, you are the youngest person I've heard tell it.
Lisa0315 said:Do you have kids? If so, what kind of disipline do you use, and why? If not, what do you think you would do, say, if the child brought home a failing grade.
Abbadon said:I don't have kids. I'd try stern warnings (with reasonings why they shouldn't be doing what they're doing, just to make sure they know what they're doing is wrong, and why), then depravation of privilages, then work (be it a job I don't feel like doing at the moment, or just push-ups), and if that doesn't work, corporal punishment. Failure to get the idea with one concept would force me to move onto the next concept. Actually, there are some things I wouldn't use corporal punishment for (failing grade is one of them), I'd just do more severe punishment of the previous steps.
I don't exactly have room to tell my kids (whenever they get here) to get all A's, but if they brought home an F, I'd hold them to the same standards I held myself to in school. If the F was for a single minor assignment, I don't really care. If it's for the class, they'd better get working, and I'll do my best to help them, even if it means removing distracting privilages.
Lisa0315 said:You will be a great parent someday.
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