A spanked child may be a better adult
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I have never had this happen, so I really couldn’t tell you. I took our little boy shopping many items, and he was always well behaved, never threw a tantrum. But there was a reason for that. Before we went to the store, I would discuss the shopping list with him, ask him if he wanted anything. If he wanted something, the issue was resolved right there in the home, I would agree to buy what he wanted or disagree. I never left it until we went to the store.
Before we went to the store, he knew perfectly well what we were going to buy, that may be one of the reasons why he never made a scene.
But if that had happened, I probably would let him yell and scream to his heart’s content. As somebody mentioned, that may inconvenience other customers to some extent. However, after he pulls the same stunt once or twice and sees that it doesn’t produce any results (except punishment after we got home), chances are very good that he will give up.
Quite so, TenPenny. You really can’t think of any punishment except spanking, can you? That is why I mentioned earlier, not spanking is the difficult option, one has to be creative in thinking of suitable punishments.
How do you know there are no experts here? Do you know any of us? Do you know any of our credentials? You assume ... and that is your great failing.
Well, we all have a different idea of fun, don't we? As slow as I am to catch on to new and emerging trends such as "fun", I don't consider insulting people for their beliefs is fun. I really don't find a lot of fun in putting people into labelled slots an then condemning them for their thoughts and opinions is a whole lot of fun. Shockingly enough, I never even found the act of having to spank my child once in a while a fun thing to do either.
And last but not least, I don't think I've ever had to resort to pretending to know everything there is to know about anything that ever was or will be worth knowing as a source of personal amusement.
What I do consider to be great fun is in seeing a child accomplish something memorable in different stages of their life...like, riding a bicycle for the first time without falling off. Hearing them read out loud their very first sentence all the way through.
Helping someone overcome a serious problem is fun for me. When I was a manager, I used to get a great kick out of being able to promote someone who had really worked hard to deserve it. Giving a good performance review followed by a raise in pay was a great deal of fun.
There are many ways to have fun, but I guess I find interaction with other people one of the "funnest" things in life, and I try very hard not to crap all over them while I am having fun.
I guess we're all different, eh? People can be fun(ny)...
If you read my post, my comment of there being no computers was in relation to our son. Our son grew up in the 80s and 90s. Sure we had a computer at home, but kids did not have the easy access to the computers then that they do today. Computer was not used in school work all that much
Incidentally, here is a tip for parents with young children. Keep the computer in your bedroom. That is what I did. If our son had to use the computer (which was not all that frequent in those days), he had to use it in our bedroom. The advantage is of course, that it being our bedroom, either of us could come and go as we please, and that kept an automatic check on what kind of mischief our son was getting into with the computer (as it turned out, none).
Of course, I don’t know if it will work today, I understand these days the kid practically must have a computer of his own for schoolwork.
Vic20? Well, I can raise you. The very first computer I saw was when I was working in Southampton, England. It was Commodore Pet, the very first model. It had 7 k (7000 bytes) memory. It was keyboard, screen and tape recorder all fused into one unit.
I was very impressed with it, I thought it was just about the greatest thing I had ever seen. I remember writing a program to play tic tac toe on it (or noughts and crosses, as they call it in England).
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Overblown ego, self-righteousness, etc..
I should have thought of that, but then not being an expert and the fact it might be anecdotal it probably wouldn't have "flown" anyway...............:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Well, depends upon who you listen to, isn’t it? Those who disagree with experts always make that argument. Thus Fundamentalist Christians belittle the scientists when they claim that scientists are totally wrong and the world was created 5000 years ago in six days. Or eanassir condemned the scientists the other day, claiming that only spiritual beings can see ether, that scientists were somehow deficient for not being able to see or perceive ether.
Your argument isn’t much different. But when it comes to children, I would much rather listen to child experts, child psychologists, rather than rely on somebody’s personal opinion.
Vinod. Are you Indian by any chance (from India that is). Your name sounds like an Indian name.
And you don't need an expert for this, Vinod. This is clearly a medical issue. If she is crying continuously for seven days, what else can it be? My suggestion to you is, take her to a competent doctor.
Anyway, again it has been fun. Later gators.
Don't get me wrong Anna, those also very good "avenues" of learning- just don't compare with actual life experience.