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Originally Posted by Looking_for_911;4868880
With all due respect to "berettafan" I can't buy this line of thinking... the "then you have kids and learn about reality" thing. This is so much like some people I currently know and how they choose to not deal with the deplorable behavior of some of their kids... that "kids will be kids" thing. And again the reasoning doesn't hold water for me.
See the first quote above. This man sounds like my dad and mom! My sister and I learned to behave. They had it down to a science. They took us everywhere when we were kids... couldn't afford a baby sitter I suppose, and if we started to act up, get out of line, etc., we'd usually get one warning. After that one warning it was On if we didn't straighten up fast. They were so good at it that all it took was [B
a Look [/B]to make up stop cold in our tracks and behave.
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I'll back up berettafan by using myself as an example. When I was 3 (or 4), I said something to my mother. My father insisted that I apologize, I insisted I was right and therefore did nothing wrong. This little dance went on for a little bit until my father said, "Apologize or you'll get spanked." To which I replied, "go for it."
Needless to say, my father had to abandon spanking me, because not only was I not budging in my position but his hand had become much too sore to continue the spanking. I was sent to my room (around 10am) and told not to come out until I was ready to apologize.
Around 5pm my father came to my room, assuming that he would find that I had already apologized and was just playing. Instead, He found a Scooby Doo lunch box full of pee (remember, I couldn't leave my room until I was ready to apologize), sitting outside my door.
The lesson learned was that a determined 3yr old can outlast an equally determined parent. A lesson I am being reminded of, as I now have a 3yr old daughter. As the saying goes, "Payback is a b*tch."