Are you "Anxious Parents"?

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Are you "Anxious Parents"?
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Wed, 11-15-2006 - 8:24am

Today's MSN News features this article

Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:26am
Very true. Like I said though, we knew 99% of the neighbors ALL over the neigborhood. And I mean personally, not jut by sight.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:27am
By us, the cut off date is December. Kids don't turn 6 until at the very least Jan. 1.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:28am
Of course. I was not spanked that much, mostly because I was not bad. I knew no meant no and that was it.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:28am

I loved Little House books as a child. I used to fantasize about being Laura. I read the series again as an adult- I can't believe how much I romaticized as a child. Whild she did not describe every gory detail, she was open about their hunger and suffering - especially in the long winter. Plus, I don't think we would have been in the same politcal spectrum. She apparently was quite the conservative. I romanticized about being Anne Frank too- again- glossing over the unsavory aspects of her situation.

I have tried (in vain) to get my boys to read the Little House books- but i think it is a pipe dream. I guess I'll have to wait for granddaughters...

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:29am
Like I mentioned in another post, we personally knew 99% of the neighbors in our neighborhood when I was a kid.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:37am
The fear meant listening to your parents. When you were told to do something, you did it, no questions asked. They knew better and that was it.
The punishment of spanking was allowed and not just a "time-out" in a corner. It was going to hurt if you did something wrong and that was it. I rarely got spanked but I did and it did not affect me now. I would never hit my kids but it is against the law now and even though I do not condone it, I think it probably kept alot of kids in line in those days.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:48am
Okay, I see what your saying, I have to agree in many ways. Here is a innocent question, do you think it is more difficult to parent today then it was a decade or decades ago?


Edited 11/19/2006 12:23 pm ET by xenozany
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:51am
No actually I would not be irate, I could have my neighbor or my nanny pick up the kids they are both on my emergency list.
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Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:53am
How do you know that you didn't have a pedofile living in your neighborhood when you were a kid? Not all pedofiles have police records. In fact, most of them are never caught. Just because you didn't know any doesn't mean they didn't exist.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:53am

Your right, they want them to be so advanced in academics they do not teach kids simple living skills.

that is a major problem.




Edited 11/19/2006 11:58 am ET by xenozany

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