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Originally Posted by Cricket
How's this for parenting...
A few years ago I was at a neighborhood park with my 5 nephews and 1 niece...it was a nice day and there were many other children there, some with parents, some without. I noticed a young father and daughter heading towards the park...the father was barely in his 20's and his daughter looked to be about 4, maybe 5 years old. The father's arms were covered with tatoos and they looked like jail house tats. When they reached the playground I heard this father tell his very young daughter..."okay, go play...but if any body gives you grief, punch 'em in the face..." and he walked away to hang out with a few guys who were hanging out in the parking lot. I couldn't believe what I just heard...and this little girl didn't seem to have any idea of how to play with other children. She approached some other young girls who were on the swings and started to bully them around. The parents of those girls came and took the girls away, so now this little girl started to look for other "targets" and saw 2 of my younger nephews who were playing on the jungle gym. She came by and within a few minutes was almost ready to fight with one of my nephews because she wanted to be where he was climbing. I grabbed my 2 nephews, looked for the other 3 nephews and 1 niece and we all went back to my brother-in-law's house.
I felt really sorry for that little girl and thought she would probably end up in jail when she got older because she was already so anti-social...and all because she had such a crummy father and probably a mother who wasn't much better. Sad.
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Like i said.. being a good parent IS NOT disciplining. Its beeing a good role model. Your children 90% of the time are going to end up just like you. If you just act the way you want them to be... thats what they will be. If your just doing absolutly nothing and being a couch potato and telling your childrem what they cant do.. thats not going to teach them... At first I started out just like my dad... but my wife and i went to counsiling and im WAY better now. I do visit my parents quite a bit now though. I just dont think they really were ready to have kids. Im the youngest too... ive got 2 older brothers... one is serving over in iraq... and the other one is in prison. I dont visit them too often and I honestly dont care a whole lot if my brother does come back from iraq. Being that he attempted to kill me at age 23 i dont have a whole lot of sympathy for him anymore. Im just very thankful to have ended up nothing like any of them.