At 09:33 PM 10/26/02, Dan Minette wrote:
I thought this might be a good time to offer general parenting advise for those list members who have small children. I've noticed three things from my near quarter century of parenting.1) The single most difficult task for parents to teach children is to accept responsibility for their own actions. They tend to say that other people made them do it, argue for technical legalistic interpretations that show that the didn't really break the rules, technically.
Judging by the nightly news, a good number don't learn this even by the time they reach the official age of adulthood . . .
2) Children tend to model their behavior after their parents 3) The time to work on the behavior of your teenagers is when they are under 8.
And 7 1/2 is probably not the best time to start . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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