Ha. I'd like to see the state try and stop me.
I wish I had kids ....
'Child rights' laws are dreamed up by the odious adults who were odious selfcentered kids. You know the kind.....they were the covetous snivelers who were always whining...."but that's not fair, he got more than I did!"
To breed new taxpayers. Any other silly questions??
Parents are for children to come home to when they are in trouble. Apparently at any age. We get a Purple Heart Band Aid and do things with learned knowledge the next time around:)
OK, now wait a minute.
I have two adult children. I MADE it my business to be involved in every aspect of my children's education. I held an office in the PTO, went on fieldtrips, and pretty much made my presence known. I went head to head with more than a few teachers were only there to collect a paycheck.
My daughter is now a Math teacher in an urban highschool. She can barely get a parent to show up at a conference.
More frustrating that that is the fact that she is a CONSERVATIVE teacher, and knows her MANDATORY union dues goes to liberal causes. That is why she will probably not stay in the profession.
Don't just blame the teachers. There are some good ones out there. Take ownership of your child's education, and you won't be sorry.
Nicely stated, Eccentric.
I'm in with the crowd that my kid is going to have more problems than he's ever imagined if he crosses me. He's 17 now, (HS Senior) so we've gone through some of the drinking, missing curfew, smart mouth, friends that were unacceptable; the usual parade. After his third warning, I kicked him out, and he stayed at Grandma's for a few days. During that time I took everything from his room; stripped it bare. All he had was a bed, enough clothes to make it through one week, and a desk with a lamp to do his homework by. No clock, no radio, no TV, no nothing. This was back in October. He's still earning back his "perks" and started talking to me after a month. He also wrote me a heart-wrenching letter, apologizing for his bad behavior. He got my message loud and clear.
I owe his 180 to the fact that "it is obviously because you are evil, wicked, mean, abusive, cruel, and uncaring."
He asked DH & I to take him to a college campus tour on Tuesday. I'm thinkin' he got the message that it's time to grow up and get with the program. Some kids get it on their own, some need a swift kick in the butt. ;)
Parenting has turned into an endless nightmare of worry coupled with the threat of legal action against you. Discipline your kid the old fashioned way, you're a child abuser. Try using the new fangled methods, and you're sitting in front of a school board or judge being castigated for not controlling your little bundle from heaven. God forbid you question the curriculum being fed to your child. Of course it's perfectly rational to skip past higher multiplication and division, and plunge into pre Algebra.
Parenting these days is an exercise in futility. Sure, some folks have been able to take their kids and drop out of society before it's too late. For the rest of us, we're dodging trouble every time we turn around.
I can't give my kid frigging Tylenol to take at school, but she can go off and get an ABORTION without my knowing? What's next? Is her guidance counselor going to take her to the local tattoo parlor? Something is very, very wrong with this philosophy.
Grocery shopping, cooking, buying clothing, driving them all over the place, waiting for them, and taking them back again, paying for lessons, having their friends over, NAGGING, laundry, sewing, NAGGING, ironing, cleaning their rooms (ha! fat chance!), giving them money, NAGGING, picking up after them, throwing birthday parties, NAGGING, helping with homework, listening to their lousy jokes, listening to them get mouthy when they don't like the rules, NAGGING, breaking up sibling quarrels, NAGGING, and, oh yeah, NAGGING.