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Originally Posted by graciegirl
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.
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That was our approach too, and we have wildly successful children. They are both still married to the same partner after over twenty years, have super kids, and are both very prosperous. I am pre-boomer but my sister is a boomer. Sis coddled and spoiled their kids who are both divorced and both still on Mama's tit in their forties. She is doing the same thing to the grandkids who all have to split time between their parents.
When I was in high school, I only knew one kid whose parents divorced....and they eventually remarried one another.