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Originally Posted by Abby10
I have experienced that with my own eyes and ears over the years that we raised our son. We were fortunate to finally find a circle of friends and a school filled with like-minded parents and teachers to surround ourselves with so that we would not be influenced by that thinking and so our son would not have to wonder why he was being reprimanded for things that other kids often got away with. We were at the cusp of that parenting trend and weren't liking what we saw. Permissiveness has gotten much worse since then in some circles. I applaud the parents today who don't fall into that trap just to be part of the crowd so to speak.
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Our kids used to tell us stories about how astounded they were at the way some of their friends talked to their parents. This was in the late '80s/early '90s. I have to be honest, I don't know what we did right, if anything. But we weren't afraid to discipline them, although we never hit them. Dad had "the look," which they joke about now at age 40 & 45. I yelled a lot--very ineffective, but I really wanted to throw a frying pan, so that was the alternative. Praise the lord for them. Two boys. Argh.