Comments on: VA: Picture Perfect Parenting

By: kibrika

kibrika — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:36:58 +0000

Yeah, kids are smart and understanding. Hadn’t occurred to me to give them bogus explanations for things not allowed, but I think explanations are necessary.
Even though I don’t tink spilling water over a kids head is ok, I must admit, I’s probably much better than hitting him. I agree that it seems great patience on V’s part.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:00:35 +0000

Kids don’t like people who won’t tell them “no”. Reason: a kid’s entire job at life is to push at the boundaries to figure out how much they can get away with. If you don’t *give* them boundaries to push, they have no fucking idea whether they’re inside them or outside them, and no idea how to find out, and it scares the living hell out of them.

Don’t ask a four-year old to *articulate* all of that for you, because they can’t (and don’t understand it themselves). But that’s where that comes from.

By: richbh

richbh — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:53:58 +0000

A friend of mine had some disciplinary problems with her eigt year old son - he had serious problems getting ready for school in the morning.

So she promised him that if he wasn’t ready on time she’d just put him in the car when it was time to go and whatever he had on was what he’d wear for the day.

The third day he went to school in just his pajama bottoms he figured out that she was serious and the problem disappeared.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:04:52 +0000

I told my four year old daughter if she wouldnt stop acting up and go to sleep in her bed that I would put her out in the grass. And that there are blood thirsty vampire bats waiting in the dark. It worked …

By: Aidan

Aidan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:48:26 +0000

Wow. I’ve got a 2 year old and I’m impressed at V’s self-control. Not once did she hit her stepson, and frankly, my son’s had quite a few “spanking of his life”s. I guess maybe that’s what the kids like about her, not only does she pay them real attention, but she respects them as people. Could be that they see she won’t hurt them. As it was said; kids are smart (except when they’re 2).

By: Oscar

Oscar — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:54:33 +0000

I have a three year old niece that I play the “push on your as” game with too. She loves it. Eventually she gets to the point where falling down isn’t enough of a rush for her and she’ll run full speed at me from 10 feet away so she can get pushed down harder. It’s odd. I’ve tried it with other kids and they all love it too.

By: wildthang7864

wildthang7864 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:12:31 +0000

Jack Handy quotes that reminded me of this article:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.”

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. “Oh, no,” I said, “Disneyland burned down.” He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

Just made me think of you, V. ;)

By: reflex

reflex — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:04:28 +0000

…but if you want your kids to knock you down when you’re old and fragile, whatever!

By: reflex

reflex — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:43:06 +0000

I’ve always promised my parents I’d help take care of them well into their “golden years,” but I don’t think that’ll involve knocking them down.

By: lostlogicx

lostlogicx — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:28:36 +0000

Oh and 300 would be a batting average 30%.