See article I pinged you to yesterday.
Posted on 07/08/2002 4:52:12 PM PDT by commieprof
By this comment, I would guess you meant me. (I don't know who else said they would keep their kids from UT. I haven't gone back to read the rest of the comments on that thread.)
I have all the faith in the world in my kids. However, would you knowingly allow your toddler to play with matches, knowing what would happen? Of course not. Why then would you allow them to be corrupted morally? My job on this earth is to raise my children and to teach them. I am a single mom (divorced, not out of wedlock.) I read over the post made with your stance on abortion and it saddens me. I feel more sorry for the child you aborted than you should feel for my children. When do you reach the point of knowing you have enough money or maturity to have children? Raising my children is a struggle, but what isn't? Even if I knew that I would divorce after having my children, I would do it all again. My children are my joy.
I only have two kids. I was talking to a friend of mine who has 5 (she just miscarried #6 and it devastated her.) She said 5 kids keep her busy, but that two probably keep me real busy, don't they? (They do.) Another friend of ours only has one and HE keeps her real busy. My point? Kids are work no matter what.
You mentioned standing up for the poor maquiladoras, etc. I cannot believe you feel no shame in not protecting the most tiny, precious, and innocent of all beings.
I take the freedom to dissent seriously also. I happen to consider the things you and your kind dissent over to be frivolus "pop dissent" designed more for the deep need of the spoiled child for attention than any deeply held belief. But then I consider most Liberals to be neurotic and deeply spirtually void, not to mention destructive to a nation and a society.
Liberals, not content to break just their own toys, demand to break everyone else's also.
No, I didn't. The teacher has the power of the grade and that grade will have an affect on their lives. Its best to suck up to the a$$hole until after you get the grade. Then later you can go back and set the record straight.
I tell my kids that if the teacher tells them it's raining outside to look out the window and find out for theirself whether it is or not.
I start my children off in questioning what I say and this leads them very naturally to question what the teacher says. But I go farther and I am aware of what papers they bring home and use them as examples for debating.
Here is an example. I told my oldest son I would pay him 100.00 to do the dishes.
He does the dishes and asks for his 100.00. I tell him I will pay him 50 years from now and that he never asked me when.
After awhile my children learn to get all the facts and not make assumptions.
As for letting them list as they will, we do have a democracy and allow our children to vote. Everyone gets one vote for each year they have lived.
People, liberal socialists and downright communists, always think that when their vision of a socialistic utopia is reached that they, the elite, the good people fighting for equalities and freedom, will remain in charge of the result, retaining their postions at the top, of whatever particular elite ladder they are perched upon....gov't, media, education, economic, Corporate moguls, Unions.
But, what I wonder, are they going to do when the mob, the practicing peoples of the real democracy/anarchy thus created, topples their new democratic socialist society and they are trampled as the evil oppressors? When assassination becomes a very real political tool and riots and civil disobedience are the tools of disagreement, not discussion. When corrupt politicians are elected by mob rule, term limits abandoned and elected dictators become President. Because this is what will eventually happen.
Real democracies don't like the powerful, rich elite at the top who seem to see themselves as supperior beings knowing what is right for everyone not belonging to their elite cliques.
In our Republic they are protected, can speak on all manner of seditious, immoral, even treasonous subjects,with impunity, by the very Constitution they would demolish.
One little amendment to the constitution to do away with the electoral college and Voila...they have achieved real democracy.........it would simply be a matter of time until the people realized the power that had just been granted them and these very dogooders would be lynched in public spasms of mefirsthood.
What is really funny (peculiar not ha ha) is that this is the very quesion, the imperfectness of a democracy and the almost certain implosion in not too long a time period, that the founders of the Constitution grappled wth, gave great discussion to and having worried it to death, penned the Preamble and the Constitution of the United States of America. Followed by the Bill of Rights.
Never again in history will a group of ethical and moral men come together to form a free government more perfect than the one we have.
She made me nuts, had lousey education in CA. Fought with me about reading, my incessant telling her of things schools no longer teach, her responsibilities in life, her needing to be able to support herself as an adult, and my insisting on knowing of her whereabouts and friends at all times.
She gave me fits, sleeplessness and hives. I worked full time so I bought her a horse to take care of. She loved that animal and it did teach her responsibility.
She is now 27, married to a great guy and she is really terrific. She is a no nonsense kind of gal with a really great sense of humor, and fun to be around. She is competitive and competes in Saddle Seat horse shows nationally.
She is more conservative than I am and far more economically savvy than I was at her age. I look at her in amazement! I listen to her views and am tickled pink. She spouts things that she learned from me and my incessant teaching and really doesn't know where she learned that. It makes me so happy and gratefull that she has turned out to be someone I admire.
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