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- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Path: sparky!uunet!hobbes!rogerv
- From: rogerv@sco.COM (Roger Vortman)
- Subject: Re: Kids and hazards (was Re: No Hot Water!)
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:51:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.195159.11254@sco.com>
- References: <1993Jan22.184259.12555@ulysses.att.com> <a4-sm2b@dixie.com>
- Sender: news@sco.com (News admin)
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- >An hour or two dose of
- >rug rats at a time is all I can stand. Now I know I'm treading on
- >sacred ground where it is asserted that no kid-less person could possibly
- >know how to manage a kid.
-
- If you can imagine loving someone (other than yourself) unconditionally,
- then you might start to understand how people feel about their children.
-
- >I believe
- >young children should obey without question and be seen and not heard.
- >That was the way I was raised and I think it worked quite well.
- >My parents DID watch us all the time. That was possible because
- >even at the earliest age, we were trained (with whippings when we
- >disobeyed) to obey. Part of that obeying was staying where we were
- >instructed. My parents did not and did not need to kidproof the
- >house. Indeed, my father kept loaded firearms in plain view. We
- >never touched them. We knew better. My mother did not allow kids in the
- >house except in the playroom and then only under her continuous supervision.
-
- That explains a lot about your attitudes toward the world. Thanks for the
- posting.
-
- -Roger
-