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rwitte42

Taking Children Seriously

Feb 18, 2009 11:24

My ex-wife and her friend recently took me to task (read: lectured me for better than a half-hour while Brittany sat on the floor and cried) over my parenting choices. Specifically, they took issue with the fact that I allow Brittany (and the other kids) to have a higher degree of autonomy than they think is appropriate. I was informed that a 14- ( Read more... )

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I can't judge... journeyrose February 19 2009, 04:57:51 UTC

I was allowed to go shopping in grocery stores, go on the bus alone, go to downtown Denver to spend a school holiday in the courtrooms (I liked to go to courtrooms as a kid, don't ask), all before I was 9. No one ever asked me about homework or brushing my teeth. I was shocked when a friend actually asked her child about homework--it seemed somehow obscene to me ( ... )

Oh yeah... journeyrose February 19 2009, 04:59:34 UTC

One more thing... I spent my first semester of college in a dorm. 3/4 of the kids went WILD. They partied, flunked, and did everything they had never been allowed to do. I didn't see any novelty in my freedom and thus I studied and got ahead--and did not flunk out of college. So maybe the answer is

I am raising smart college freshmen who will study and not go wild with unexpected freedoms.