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If that's right BP I'm entitled to give proportional or reasonable chastisement every time one steps out of line.
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If that's right BP I'm entitled to give proportional or reasonable chastisement every time one steps out of line.
Of course you aren't, any more than you're entitled to thrash my car or motorbike up and down the road (to keep a *motoring* link)!
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If that's right BP I'm entitled to give proportional or reasonable chastisement every time one steps out of line.
As your not allowed to give proportional or reasonable chastisement every time one
of your own children steps out of line, then No you cant do it for other peoples kids either
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We used one of these offers once, offering a free burger meal.
Me - Two adult fish and chips and can we just have free chips and beans for the kids without the burger please.
Assistant - Sorry you need to take the full kids meal for it to be free
Me - but they won't eat the burgers (it was early days of mad cow disease)
Assistant - sorry but I have to serve the full meal.
Me - OK then but the burger won't be eaten
Assistant - Right, chips are ready but its five minute wait for the burger 'cos there's none ready.
He allowed us to take the adult meal and the chips and beans and solemnly called us over five minutes later for the burgers.
Me - Are these the burgers for us to leave then?
Assistant - yes......... have a nice day.
No sense of irony.......
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I fondly remember the days when children were seen and not heard.
Tin of Vimto and a bag of crisps outside in the car was quite good enough.
Kids' meals in restaurants, kids' spaces in supermarkets, kids' this, kids' that.
Children seem to routinely 'run riot' in public places, no matter if they are with adults or not.
Seems to me children have got too much, and too much to say for themselves, these days.
And are we, or they, any better for it?
No.
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car auction i used to go to the auctioneer at xmas time used to shout out
"think of the children" when nobody was bidding,we all went even quieter thinking off all the money we had already spent on the little *****
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Agree with every word Ifithelps, and could add a few unmentionable ones of my own.
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I fondly remember the days when children were seen and not heard. Tin of Vimto and a bag of crisps outside in the car was quite good enough. Kids' meals in restaurants kids' spaces in supermarkets kids' this kids' that.
That sounds like you mean things were 'neither seen nor heard' to me. Anyway, the savagery of today's society is the result of cultural relativism - nothing is better or worse, merely different.
There are plenty of cultures that take their children everywhere - it doesn't mean they run riot; the correlation is really not there.
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> fondly remember the days when children were seen and not heard.....
> .....And are we, or they, any better for it?
YES
My son was taken to resturants at an early age, and none of this childrens meals rubbish either, all round the world. At home from an appropriate age (around 12) he had wine with a meal too.
As a result he knew how to behave and wasnt one of those bratts causing agro for all, ate (and still eats) a variable diet for a teen, and knows how to drink responsibly.
Frankly this "seen and not heard" rubbish is the cause of most of the youth agro.
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>> this "seen and not heard" rubbish is the cause of most of the youth agro.
Can't agree AE. 'Seen and not heard' is a thing of the past. Poor parental example combined with moral neglect are what cause it. So many of the young are thrown on their own and their friends' non-existent resources instead of getting understandable and positive forms of guidance (like the ones you have given your own sprog). Baleful and destructive elements in popular and 'street' culture complete the job.
Hard to know how to stop the rot. Politics and the media seem hellbent on making everything worse.
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My son was taken to resturants at an early age and none of this childrens meals rubbish either all round the world. At home from an appropriate age (around 12) he had wine with a meal too.
Us too, went EVERYWHERE with us at nearly all times and what dividends it has paid. She is now a charming 23 and quite worldy wise, employed and asks for nothing. Result of using our brains.
MD
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No sense of irony.......
No sense full stop.
MD
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