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March 31, 2008, 9:01 pm PDT
03/14 Dr. Phil Now: Fly Girls
Quote From: ramairThe ones I'm talking about are those allowed to behave with no regard to anyone else. Such as the three children, at a breakfast place in Pigeon Forge, TN, running around a table while their parents were sitting there, smoking. I grew up in a the 50's and 60's when permissive parents were the rare exception. Such as the psycholgist couple who hired my 13-year-old brother to put their daughter to bed every night. She minded him, and every other parent in the neighborhood, better than she did her own.
There are some children who are still raised as my generation was. When I see such children, I compliment them and their parents. I feel that the best parenting methods take the wisdom of older generations and the wisdom of current ideas and combine them to fit their lives.
I do agree...parents who let their kids run all over hell and back in public DRIVE ME CRAZY. Not only is it annoying and dangerous it is a bad example to other kids...I have to pull out my "not all parents have the same rules" speech when this happens...and my daughter understands (as much as a nearly 4 year old can) but I can still see the tugs of wishing she could run around too.
The most awesome thing my daughter ever did though was in Walmart, we were walking around gathering items and another kid in the store was screaming so loud you could hear him EVERYWHERE...and this is in a SUPER WALMART...HUGE store, a store the size of a city block nearly...and you could hear him screaming and screaming...after about 5 minutes the mom pushed the cart past us while the kid was screaming and Emma just said "That boy is CRAZY! Why is he yelling and yelling?" LMFAO! It was great!
The poor little boy looked exhausted, I felt terrible for him, he couldn't have been over 3 years old...that mother shouldn't have been there dragging that kid through the store...I mean, if I was annoyed, imagine how annoyed that poor little boy was!
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