http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2011/07/15/
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Precisely. My retort to the parents of unruly children is, “Children should never try to raise children. Are your parents available to help you?”
I may not agree with “LZ” on much else, but he’s right about this. Parents who do not teach their children respect, discipline, and prepare them for life need to go back and re-learn those lessons themselves, then teach their children well.
There seems to be a lot of parents that don’t make their kids mind. On the other hand in defense of some of those parents. I have an autistic child who is also learning disabled and also has ADHD to the max. She also looked normal. When she was 4 her doc told me that he had never seen a child as hyper as she was and put her on ritalin. If you read the pdr it recommends not putting a child on ritalin until about 6 years old. She was like dealing with a wild animal, she understood very little and her communication at that age was of about a 1 year old. She was also tacitly defensive. Every time I tried to hold her hand she would throw herself down to the ground screaming, or she would spit, bite herself or me and whack herself in the head with her fist. So it was either a stroller which she was fine in, as long as you were moving, or a grocery cart if the store had one, this seemed to help keep her calm. Of course not all stores have carts and she outgrew the stroller.
Just sayin.
I like that retort. :-)
My grandfather was born in 1911 to immigrants from Eastern Europe. They had been through the mines and work camps and made their way to a steel city. When he was fourteen his father told him to leave school because the mill was hiring and that was that. His schooling was at the local Catholic school. He said once that the pastor beat him with a garden hose for doing wrong and he was deathly afraid of telling his father about it for fear of being beat worse. His generation was the so called greatest generation. Must have done something right.