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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
How many of us parents will admit that they had children because 'it was expected' that they would, or that they just 'went along with the idea of their spouse?'
Stitchawl
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I was determined not to have children, in part because it *was* expected of me. I decided to have kids because I suddenly (within the course of a month) realized I couldn't imagine life without them. No one was more surprised than I was.
I totally agree with what Kaz was saying as well, and alphapheemail has a great point-- if you don't correct your own children, who the heck is going to? I think in our efforts to protect children from actual abuse, we have started crying 'abuse on things that are mere corrections. Yes, some people do abuse their kids, and those people need to be stopped, but we seem to have caught an awful lot of relatively minor corrections in the crossfire.
As a public school educator, you can totally tell which kids rule the roost and which kids have discipline in the house. The kids who understand discipline and have respect are so much easier to teach. Somewhere along the way, for whatever reason (and I could speculate several reasons), parents became unable or unwilling to discipline their kids. And it shows.