My friend volunteers in a Kindergarten class. She said you can spot the kids whose dads are not in the picture - they are untethered, off kilter. At FIVE!
” My friend volunteers in a Kindergarten class. She said you can spot the kids whose dads are not in the picture -they are untethered, off kilter. At FIVE!”
I believe it. My parent split up permanently when I was around 5-6 years old (and were divorced not too long after). I recall being “untethered, off kilter” at that age. And the people I was acquainted with, teachers fellow classmates, friends in the neighborhood, etc. all sensed it about me.
Moms arejust not the same, not wired the same, especially with boys. No amount of chemicals can make a boy behave like a girl.
“She said you can spot the kids whose dads are not in the picture - they are untethered, off kilter. At FIVE!”
Sad but true; when I take my my sons to the park or playground, you can tell which kids also are not spanked. My kids are like the Asian kids; you never see them talk back to their parents, whine when they don’t get their way, etc.
Not to toot my horn (because I’m a mess), but a few times mothers of unruly children in restaurants have told my wife and I how well behaved our boys are. I just don’t take sh!t from my kids, and don’t know why any parent would. You either straighten it out now, or when they’re teenagers...I choose to do it now.