Our society is based on the old mighty dollar and what it can get you, children have to expess themselves they are individuals. Give me a break who ever started that I would like to kick in the teeth. Like I will tell my daughter when she gets old enough to understand this is a dictatorship until she turns 18 and I don't beleave like a lot of parents these days It's my way or the highway. No you are just running away from your responsability I say It's my way and you will live with it. You have to set a higher moral standard for yourself at the same time though kids and adults learn best from example something we very much lack these days. Children listen when they love and RESPECT you and you can not have respect with out discipline. These parents that reason with there kids need to have there heads kicked. Talk explain things to your child yes that is how they learn even when they have done something wrong. I make a point to send my nephew to the bathroom let him think for a while and worry about the whooen he is going to get but when I go in there I sit down calmly and talk to him first ask him if he knows why he is in trouble most times he says no but hey thats a kid he thinks if he don't know he gets out of it . It is kind a funny but then you explain it to him then ask if he understands and then he gets a whoopen then I leave give him some time alone then come back in talk to him again make sure he understands why he got in trouble then give him a hug let him know he is still loved and it does not make him a bad person. There are a lot of things taught when I do all of this one he learns that your going to get in trouble no matter what there is no passes he is responsable for his actions and a big one is you teach them to think , where eventualy in time he will think before he does something wrong and not do it. It also teaches him to think of others not just himself and that his actions no matter how much right he has to them affects others sometimes and that is not his right. We were taught lessons when we were kids and it hurt sometimes but it made a lasting impresion on us. To many parents have no stomach or back bone for that anymore they want to be friends with there kids. Guess what your an adult and a parent first your responsability is to give them the skills in which to thrive in a social society.

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