Posted on 09/04/2016 2:07:29 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
I'm aware of that...
A few years ago my daughter brother in law kid (5 years old) stabbed (not poked, but stabbed) their dog with a fork when he was visiting...dog was doing nothing but sitting there...
The mom blew if off like it was nothing...(we now know where he got his psycho genes)
My daughter made the mistake of calling CPS to report the kid because he probably needed mental help...
They showed up and almost took her kids away...
Three visits and the threat of legal action finally got them to back off...
Lesson learned...
To put it into perspective I remind myself that, at age eleven, I was a farm hand when not in school. I learned to work with a draft horse before turning eleven and by eleven could work the fields, cut firewood with an axe or pull my end of a sixty inch two man saw and was able to do many other jobs around the farm. My youngest brother was born three months before I turned twelve and I was sometimes left alone with him and expected to take care of him. In the winter I went squirrel hunting with a .22 rifle.
Our gym has a kid room, it’s only $5/month
“one of the children?”....
Pretty obvious it was NOT the 5 month old girl.
Reporters need to read their crap before sending it out.
I see that occasionally and wonder what type of psychological damage the parent is doing to their kid...
Hard to imagine a parent can't control their small child with voice commands and need to put them on a lease like a animal...
>>I see that occasionally and wonder what type of psychological damage the parent is doing to their kid...
They train them to be snowflakes who need safe spaces. They train them to follow the leader in lockstep and never to deviate from the path or wander out of sight of authority.
They point to “free range kids” and say, “those kids have horrible parents who don’t love their children like I do”.
They train them to be good Soviet citizens.
I think it goes deeper than that, being on a lease breeds passive rebellion, lack of self control, poor impulse control since you have no control over your being....
Parents will reap the whirlwind come the teenage years...
Makes you wonder if these clowns even bother to read what they have just written.
>>Parents will reap the whirlwind come the teenage years...
I agree. But once they become adults, they will default back to their childhood. We grew up a free people who tested boundaries but respected authority. They grew up as chained people who broke boundaries because they hated authority, but have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome that makes them keep coming back to the authority for validation and protection.
Excellent point and completely agree....
I deftly got into the rowboat and skimmed across the lake the way a bowling ball doesn't.
By the looks of her, all that working out’s not doing her a whole lot of good.
I see your point. To those who wish to think like this, it is rather condescending to see a child on a leash.
But to those who do not want their kid snatched or wonder off while they are browsing the stores, well, it is actually good common sense. It gives the child much more mobility and freedom as compared to being pushed in a cart or carried.
It’s all in how we perceive and let our leftist emotional side of the brain take over. We all have it.
Mom is addicted to physical fitness——no better than a junkie.
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“O’Neill allegedly told police she had “rigged” the car so that if the doors were opened an alarm would go off.”
totally lame. she should have rigged the backseat like the backseat of a police car with a wire screen separator between the frontseat and backseat and removed the door handle actuators from the back.
My kids were latchkey kids who walked home from school when they were 8 and 9. Lots of grandparents lived on our cul de sac block who always kept a watchful eye out. But that was during the early 1970’s when the environment wasn’t as dangerous. Didn’t have to worry about keys either because we didn’t even lock our house.
I used leashes on my toddlers, especially in crowded venues like airports, malls and public events like parades.
2 year olds are remarkably fast and very distracted by the novelty of the world (it’s all new to them) so voice commands are pretty much useless. I was also generally pregnant or carrying a young infant as well.
Using a leash also means not having to stoop and/or overextend my kids shoulder because of the height differential, plus they can explore and be independent a bit and I don’t have to sound like a fishwife trying to keep them in my zone of control with my voice.
They are all well adjusted adults now.
Parents of the Year material...
I think a trained monkey could have written that sentence better...
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