January 1909. Two of the "helpers" in the Tifton Cotton Mill at Tifton, Georgia. They work full time and earn $4.50 a week sticking on bobbins and running sides.
Posted on 11/30/2007 8:18:46 AM PST by qam1
LOVE IT!!!
BUMP!
Research continues, but there’s a distinct possibility your boy might be the cutest kid ever.
“Child-centered parenting” has been a general disaster for the American family. The “parent-centered family” is a robust antidote. I recommend the approach and writings of psychologist John Rosemond for all those who wish to administer “vitamin N” to their little darlings.
January 1909. Two of the "helpers" in the Tifton Cotton Mill at Tifton, Georgia. They work full time and earn $4.50 a week sticking on bobbins and running sides.
It hasn’t.
Photo and caption from NationalGeographic.com
A child carries unbaked bricks to a kiln at a brick factory in Raichak, India, in December 2000. Scenes like this remain a fact of life in India, despite a longtime ban on hard labor by children.
Ha! That is a law I would break, if I were unfortunate enough to be a resident of the People's Republic of Massachusetts.
My buddy has 7 kids (with the help of his wife), ages 2-13, not one ever had the dreaded terrible two's disease.
I guess the Terrible Two's aren't inevitable. If they were at least 1 of his kids should have had it. The fact that 7 of 7 avoided it tells me its all about parenting, and NOT about the child.
This "future" is different from the present somehow?
Thank You Ma’am. He’s my little mini-me...
It’s amazing!
Before I had kids I had three theories on child raising.
Now, with 3 kids, I have none!
Today these folks would be evicted (for their own good) and placed in a Gov’t Hellhole, Ooops - Housing.
No, its a matter of picking your battles. My daughter is good 98% of the time. Her teacher uses her behavior as a model for the kids who act out in her class.
The one issue I have is she isn’t a vegetable eater. It will come with time.
I was blessed I didn’t get a child like my cousin. That kid needed a belt almost everyday. I don’t think he was a mean kid but Dennis the Menance times 5. It was 30 years ago when he was little and most of my other cousins still don’t like him. My cousin should have been a toy tester because he would find a way to break it.
Also, why assume logic works with kids. “Because I said so”, isn’t very logical but is a phrase that works with many kids. Of course the tone of voice and the look has to go along with that sentence.
Anyone who seriously tried to maintain the level of discipline with children common prior to the 1970s, today, would run afoul of the law and have their child taken away by the state. The only way to avoid this is to hermit in a very remote area and home school. Failing that, even if a parent maintains an exemplary household - for example, no TV, only heavily supervised computer use, non materialistic living, etc, they would not be able to prevent peer pressure and general societal rubbish from infecting their child. Also, if they tried to maintain the selective use of coporal punishment, in most states that would be grounds for intervention by child protective services. Until / unless liberalism and cultural rot gets overturn, trying to raise children other than the hermit / home school method I mentioned, is an exercise in futility. The Suicide of the West.
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