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Originally Posted by tomwed
Rules:
I spent most of my life in company of boomer teachers. I have often said and heard many say "It is easier to ask forgiveness then it is to ask for permission".
You can learn a lot by taking chances and making mistakes. I've passed that on to my kids along with being curious and questioning everything.
I don't know or maybe I forgot what Dr. Spock's philosophy was with child rearing. I'll look into that today in between golf and a photography club meeting. I'm curious.
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Well, I suppose your philosophy has merit, but my kids heard if you break the rules, I will NOT bail you out. AND I didn't just mean jail. I think there are loads of challenges and accomplishments to be won inside the rules. I think on this, I am just as right as you are. In a sense I parented a good deal of the time alone as Sweetie often was flying all around somewhere working.
I don't remember what Spock had to say about discipline but his book was a good go to book on Children's Disease.
Except it worried me to death. Everything I read in that book, I knew they were getting at three in the morning.