Christy
b*tch rocket
Has anyone ever considered that having one's head shoved so far up your child's behind, might just be detrimental to their growth? 
Take for instance my parents. They had one simple rule. "Don't embarrass the family". That was it, and it was simple to understand (can't say I always followed it) BUT, it pretty much covered any stupid thing I could do to get myself in trouble. Miraculously, I did not require their monitoring of every nitnoid aspect of my life. I can't remember EVER having "family night" or my mom screening my tv viewing. I was always up way later than they were, so it was never really monitored. :shrug: I managed to survive my childhood and grow up to be a reasonably successful adult.
(My mamma just told me last week how proud she is of me.) 
On the converse, you have my cousins (and there are many). All of who had doting parents, all of who were "friends" with their kids. All of whom read all the parenting books, and listened to all the advice on how to be good to their children
. Guess what, NONE have grown up to be successful. ALL are still corded to their mother's and can't survive without parental assistance for EVERY aspect of their lives. Half are on drugs, the other half are just plain lazy.
So you see, all this nicey nice coddling of our kids, may sound like the right thing, but I'll stick with how my mom and dad raised me. Seems to have worked.
Take for instance my parents. They had one simple rule. "Don't embarrass the family". That was it, and it was simple to understand (can't say I always followed it) BUT, it pretty much covered any stupid thing I could do to get myself in trouble. Miraculously, I did not require their monitoring of every nitnoid aspect of my life. I can't remember EVER having "family night" or my mom screening my tv viewing. I was always up way later than they were, so it was never really monitored. :shrug: I managed to survive my childhood and grow up to be a reasonably successful adult.
(My mamma just told me last week how proud she is of me.) On the converse, you have my cousins (and there are many). All of who had doting parents, all of who were "friends" with their kids. All of whom read all the parenting books, and listened to all the advice on how to be good to their children
. Guess what, NONE have grown up to be successful. ALL are still corded to their mother's and can't survive without parental assistance for EVERY aspect of their lives. Half are on drugs, the other half are just plain lazy.So you see, all this nicey nice coddling of our kids, may sound like the right thing, but I'll stick with how my mom and dad raised me. Seems to have worked.
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