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To: NittanyLion

Please think about that for a moment. You’re not talking about a football team or a sales force! this is his freaking daughter! She’s eleven years old! What if you’re eleven year old told you that you weren’t worthy of his/her respect, and not only will he/she not take out the trash as you told them to, (or do you ask them nicely?) but they show you contempt because you cussed them out and now they need some time for you to prove that you are worthy of their respect! I’m sorry, but that is sad! Alec Baldwin is that girl’s FATHER, remember your stone tablets “Honor thy mother and father”? What, unless their flaming libs? Then you can just spit on them? LOL!


102 posted on 04/20/2007 6:05:07 PM PDT by hleewilder
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To: hleewilder
What if you’re eleven year old told you that you weren’t worthy of his/her respect, and not only will he/she not take out the trash as you told them to, (or do you ask them nicely?) but they show you contempt because you cussed them out and now they need some time for you to prove that you are worthy of their respect!

Thankfully I had two parents who would have never spoken to me like this. That said, if they did I would carry out the chores out of obedience, but not because I respect them.

You'd do well to understand that you can force your children to be obedient while they're young even if you berate them as Baldwin as done. At some point they become adults, and then all you have left is their respect (or lack thereof).

Again, respect is earned. It is not accorded due to position or authority. And that isn't an opinion - it's a truism.

111 posted on 04/20/2007 6:09:49 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: hleewilder

Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or fret your children [do not be hard on them or harass them], lest they become discouraged and sullen and morose and feel inferior and frustrated. [Do not break their spirit.]


287 posted on 04/20/2007 8:23:11 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a democrat with an energized opposition than a leftist “Republican” with no opposition.)
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