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parenting stuff
Oct. 21st, 2005 09:51 amI was appalled to see that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
misia's (Hanne Blank's) readers were so "ROWR, kids have to be taught TEH RULEZZ" about this post.
Am I way off base? It seems like a four year old doesn't need to be taught to mindlessly follow rules, and hauled off without explanation. Yes, mom needs to be more understanding of other people, but what, we as adults can't pause a few minutes to let a kid have a good time - or at least to explain to the kid why zir good time is a source of frustrating inconvenience to others? In my opinon, if anyone was wrong in that story, it was the old dude TOTALLY VIOLATING THE KID'S SPACE. And yeah, okay, mom needed to be paying more attention and have done something sooner. Cause $DEITY knows you can't expect strangers in this country to show your kids care and respect; they just want to demand you discipline them.
Seriously. Only a handful of people had the slightest concern for the child other than to say zie'd be "spoiled", and even they were still like "yes, children are zany, but that means we should leave them with a relative anytime we leave the house".
GAH. Sometimes I think I'm going to have to live on a self-sufficient farm if I ever want children. And we'll all just roll on the floor whenever we fucking feel like it (er, although it won't be all nasty dirty like the grocery store).
misia's (Hanne Blank's) readers were so "ROWR, kids have to be taught TEH RULEZZ" about this post. Am I way off base? It seems like a four year old doesn't need to be taught to mindlessly follow rules, and hauled off without explanation. Yes, mom needs to be more understanding of other people, but what, we as adults can't pause a few minutes to let a kid have a good time - or at least to explain to the kid why zir good time is a source of frustrating inconvenience to others? In my opinon, if anyone was wrong in that story, it was the old dude TOTALLY VIOLATING THE KID'S SPACE. And yeah, okay, mom needed to be paying more attention and have done something sooner. Cause $DEITY knows you can't expect strangers in this country to show your kids care and respect; they just want to demand you discipline them.
Seriously. Only a handful of people had the slightest concern for the child other than to say zie'd be "spoiled", and even they were still like "yes, children are zany, but that means we should leave them with a relative anytime we leave the house".
GAH. Sometimes I think I'm going to have to live on a self-sufficient farm if I ever want children. And we'll all just roll on the floor whenever we fucking feel like it (er, although it won't be all nasty dirty like the grocery store).