Posted on 08/18/2025 8:43:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
How many of us did our fathers allow a sip of alcohol and a drag on a cigarette just to watch us cough and gag for a joke?
I’m betting most Freepers, who grew up in the 1970’s or before had this experience, because it was considered a joke.
It would be different if she got her kid to habitually vape, but doing it once is sometimes what parents do as part of fun.
On the other hand, she isn’t this kid’s parent, just a babysitter.
That’s true. You don’t do that kind of fun, unless it’s your own kid.
ahe wasn’t a parent. These girls were babysitting someone else’s child.
That does make a difference.
Not my father cause he’s not a pos.
In which case, almost all 70’s and prior parents were pos.
Parents back then let kids learn the hard way.
“I bet you’ll never do that again,” was often one of the stock phrases parents kept in their verbal tool box.
And she was BABYSITTING...it was NOT even her child!
My parents did NOT do that, my grandparents did NOT do that, and NO parents, of ANYONE I EVER KNEW, did ever that either, nor did I, nor ANY parents of the children that my progeny went to school with did that!
I’ve been corrected on that one point, about the child not being hers.
However, most parents did stuff like this as part of the teaching for the child.
You appear to have a rather warped idea as to what "EVERYONE", "EVERYWHERE" ever did! Pity that.......
No, most people did people did things like this to their children to help them learn.
People didn’t coddle their children like you might have been.
I’m glad that you found a new arguement to argue about for the next week or so. It’s good for the mind to practice verbal exercises.
And you only imagine that this was "normal", due to the fact that you obviously ONLY have ever been around lousy parents.
My dad was drunk a lot. Neither him nor his friends ever did something like this.
It sounds like to me that you were coddled. May be you came from a family of non-smokers or drinkers. However, in those households that did, they saw value in not just telling their children to not smoke or drink. They allowed a single experience, that wouldn’t hurt them, to show why instead.
"TEACH THEM A LESSON"?
What "lesson" is doing any of that to a toddler or even a child? How to be a classless sod?
It would be much better to teach their children good manners, how to make their beds, and cook a few simple dishes and I don't mean toddlers, but a child as young as 4 is fully able to learn how to set a table and do very simple chores, with older children being taught other valuable things (at each appropriate age), such as starting a saving account at 6, how to iron around 10, etc.!
You poor thing, please buy a good dictionary; you obviously have no idea what the meaning of the word “coddled” means. LOL
You’re off to a good start, if you are intending to keep responding to me for a week, like you’ve done every other time you decided to argue with me about something. So, I don’t really expect this to be any different than any other time in the past or in the future.
Yes, teach them a lesson. Better to have one drink as a child and never again, than somebody who starts to drink at 18 and becomes a drunk, because he never learned to control himself at home.
There is as much value in what you see, while allowing them to banged up during childhood. Safetism is a problem in today’s world and starts with never allowing the child to have slightly harmeful experiences along the way.
You are telling me all about how children should be coddled, so I think I know what the word means.
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