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| Fri, 07-16-2004 - 12:45pm |
This was an article in my local paper. I linked it from John Rosemond's website.
I usually don't agree with him but I thought he made some good points until he got to part 2. The part about serving your husband gave me the heebie-jeebies.
I was thinking about some of this last night when I was cleaning up after my children again. Why don't I make Zak fold clothes and sweep? Why do I let myself get so frustrated when I can make him help out?
Also, and I might get flamed, but I do think some fear of your parents is good. The little boy across the street stole again and was confined to his room. Obviously, the confinement to your room approach is not working. If I had ever stolen from my parents, the results would have been drastic. Confinement to my room would have been the least of my worries.
I want my children to respect me and to fear my reactions to their misbehavior.
edited to put the link in because I am an idiot! (uneducated, you know and not intelluctually stimulating)
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Jumping in way late to this thread so I apologize in advance if my post is redundant.
I know I'm entering this thread late in the game, but I don't understand why people are so against explaining things.
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ds1-would say ....yes,
dd- would say....no,
and ds2 would take off without saying anything.
as they got older, it all changed. ds1 became defiant, dd became conformant(is that a word?) and ds2 was kind of in the middle.
its a crap shoot, and all the talk and explaining in the world isnt going to change the personality of the kid, hence "because i said so" was born.
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