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- From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Lynch's Imaginary Friend)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Revised consistency check
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- Date: 18 Aug 92 15:14:49 GMT
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- chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
- >andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Lynch's Imaginary Friend) writes:
- >>Teaching children not to talk back is not dysfunctional. Turning a kid
- >>out so you don't have to deal with the problem, then disinheriting him
- >>when your first brilliant solution flubbed, is.
- >
- >Well, excuse us if we don't have any patience for the Bart Simpson's of
- >this world.
-
- OK, you're excused. :)
-
- >But what do you do when normal punishments and talking just
- >don't work with someone until you finally have to threaten some serious and
- >permanent action?
-
- Then the kid needs help. I'm not going to pretend I have a ready solution;
- I'm not a father and don't have the experience I really would need to give
- you a pat answer. I just know that turning him out smacks far too much to
- me of sweeping the problem under the rug, and isn't likely to get the kid
- the help he needs.
-
- >Then what do you do when your kid "puts you in your
- >place" as they're leaving on their own volition?
-
- If he's leaving for good, why would I need to do anything?
-
- >>Steve, I'm not blaming you for your parents' mistakes. I'm not even blaming
- >>you for wanting to believe your family is typical. I'm merely pointing out
- >>that it's typical of no other family I've ever seen, including mine.
- >
- >Families that haven't read Dr. Benjamin Spock's "spare the rod, spoil the
- >child" ideology aren't typical. So what's the difference?
-
- I'm not sure what you're asking here. Could you elaborate a bit, please?
-
- --
- "Me and you, a two man crew,
- side by side we are united,
- we will never be divided...."
-
- Au revoir, mon cherie.
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