Little Boys

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Little Boys
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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 12:01am

I went home this weekend to pick up my niece who is staying with me this week.

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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 9:05am

I'm just sick of how kids in general behave these days.

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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 9:53am

The dad being in his room and not spending time with the boy sounds like the culprit to me.

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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 10:44am
That's exactly what me and my mom were saying - his dad should be spending more time with him.

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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 12:28pm

I have 3 rug rats under my belt now, (-: and I would say parenting issue as well. I could write a dissertation, but discipline is a lost art. Every thing is ok, "no" supposedly destroys self esteem and stifles creativity . . . time outs . . .no consistent application of any form of discipline. To may people out there are raising kids, and not enough are raising men and women any more. Mine are young adults now, and I still have to set aside much of what I want for myself to invest the effort and time necessary to continue working with them, trying to be a role model for them, etc . . . my "job" is far from done. Heck, need to fix the mistakes I did make. (-; To many people "breed" with out having a clue what they are signing on for. (-: This is for life. ((-:

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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 12:52pm

Now, see, I wanna light the fireworks and stuff 'em down those boys' pants. Sounds like you might want to have a chat with your niece about negative attention and postitive attention.


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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 1:28pm

I don't understand these children. My sister's youngest, age 8, had a little girl sat next to her at school. It was a disruptive little girl and the teacher kept having to move her due to parents complaints. Soon enough, my niece was coming home crying. My sister thought it would be a good idea to have the little girl over for a night. She said the child was a holy terror. At one point she said she corrected the child and her reply was: "Talk to the butt". An eight year old kid was saying this to a 40 year old woman? I didn't have the balls to even think about doing that at that age.

My sister was very eager to meet the girls parents the next morning. She said they, from all outward appearances, seemed like lovely people. She was left baffled.

These boys could turn out to be great guys. I babysat some little hellions at church growing up and the ones that I have remained in contact with seem to have turned out very well. One of them is actually considering the ministry! You know, I bet if you had been able to seperate these kids and get them on their own, they'd have been well behaved. There was probably a leader among them; encouraging them to get away with what they could, while they could.

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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 6:21pm

Ooohhh..it's a good thing I didn't think of that Friday night!


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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 10:03am

I was at work one day and this family of 5 came in the store. Mom wanted to shop for new clothes. After a while, Dad left with the daughter and one of the boys went running after her. Daughter brought little brother back in the store...


As boys (and men) will do when they are in a women's clothing store, they became bored. The little boy who was walking started whining...mom ignored him...


...whining turned into flat-out screaming. Mom ignored him. People left the store because they couldn't deal with the noise.


I walked into the back because I saw red at the sides of my vision and when that happens, I'm not responsible for my actions.


Mom merrily shopped along and didn't leave until she had her $200-something total of purchases.

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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 10:25am

To ignore is hard, but that's probably exactly what that mom needed to do.