Posted on 05/26/2012 3:53:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
I prefer the old tried-and-true method. Beatings.
Nothing like a good beating to focus the mind ... like a junior version of the hangman's noose.
When the barbarian begins actually to wonder why all that crap is so important to you, then you have finally won. You at last have its mind on the subject.
You play for keeps, don't you?
They're usually right. One exasperated executive's solution, 20 years ago: He finally figured out that the way to domesticate his teenaged daughter was to nail her up in a big packing crate with a hole to feed her through -- then bung up the hole.
He announced his discovery at work one day. Never having had a teenaged daughter, I took notes.
Bill O’Reilly is a COWARD and a TRAITOR.
And you are an IDIOT. So there
I’m impatient with teenagers ... as I’m sure my parents and grandparents were when they had them! I wish there was a way comfortable suburban teens could get a dose of reality sufficient to make them realize how good they have it, but without fatal consequences.
My oldest daughter joined the Coast Guard when she turned 18, and has visited many of the cruddier parts of the Pacific Rim. She’s a fire-eating radical right-wing fanatic.
(And I agree about Washington.)
Hedrick Smith, Moscow reporter for The New York Times, wrote a book about Russia when he came home in the 1980's (and so, by coincidence, did another journalist even more senior than Smith; their books appeared at the same time). I don't know who it was who made the comments in book-flogging interviews, more likely Smith I think, that American liberals posted to Moscow on whatever business, back in the 70's and 80's, usually came home foam-at-the-mouth, flag-waving patriots.
I read Smith’s book, I think. “The New Russians,” was it?
Anoreth said that Russian immigrants were likely to take her side in arguments with the communist natives of Seattle.
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