Are you "Anxious Parents"?

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Registered: 06-30-2006
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 - 3:30pm
I know that the things I am doing are right but I always have wanted to have my parents to be proud of me and to know they raised a good person.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:32pm
That is good. I believe that a child needs to play too and not just do homework all the time.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:33pm
ITA with you. It is hard to raise a young girl when all she sees is girls degrading themselves to get guys' attention. I will not let my daughter watch MTV alone as I don't want her thinking these girls in videos are how girls should be dressing and acting.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:35pm
At age 17, there are many things kids can get in trouble with, drugs, sex, drinking. I know a kids who have "roamed" around the streets and they are always up to no good.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:36pm
I said I never spank my kids. When I was a child I did get spanked. I don't remember how young but probably around 7 or 8. It was not alot because I was not a bad kid.
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Registered: 10-31-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:41pm

Hitting kids should be against the law, but is spanking against the law in your state? I see a big difference between hitting and spanking. Here in Texas corporal punishment was still the norm in most school districts until recently. Incidentally, my parents knew a family who immigrated to the U.S. almost 40 years ago from Sweden--spanking was illegal there and because of their religious beliefs about bringing up their children, they felt that their religious freedoms were being violated and so came to the U.S. Their children, now in their late 30s and 40s, are some of the best people I've ever met. Sweden's loss, our gain, I guess.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:41pm
Same here. I was trying to figure out what sort of trouble my 14yo is out looking for.
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:43pm
I haven't been lurking/posting and as I've been reading your posts, just figured you were someone new since I've been last posting. I was wondering what had happened to some of the old timers. I just realized who you are after seeing your son's name LOL. Glad to see you are still here!
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:45pm
Right, so what makes you think you would know about it among your neighbors, if your dh didn't even know about it in his own family?
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 3:46pm
Yes, spanking is against the law in my state. I don't remember when but I remember my sister as a kid telling my parents she would call CPS if they hit her. We were not hit too often but enough that she was threating them (as all the other kids her age were!).

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