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Randomly found this while browsing... one of those well-intentioned people with bad ideas. Thoughts?
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RE: Ew.

Well, I guess we'll see how that works out for her.

Summery of article: "My parents placed a lot of senseless restrictions on me when I was younger and when I'm older I'm going to put the same senseless restrictions on my kids and force them to play sports because everybody loves sports rite rite?"
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I can actually understand where she's coming from but if there's one thing that's lacking here that's so crucially important yet never mentioned is empathy for the child. Will the child even be good at sports? I understand physical activity is desirable at an early age but don't go overboard. If you're going to force restrictions like that, at least have some flexibility, empathy, and the child likes it. If it's not working, go back to the drawing board.
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i hate reading the shit stupid people write
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Damn. I'd hate to be one of her kids.
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What a punk. I can get some of the stuff on the list but not everyone likes sports and you can't really make your siblings like each other (I'm the oldest of 3 boys and 1 girl and it's always been a constant state of war, then peace, then war cycle between us.)
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This misplaced idealism usually wears off when the person in question actually has kids. Hopefully that would be for the better.
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"I’m going to make my children take school seriously, but not too seriously."

It's better then my mom's ideology: School and college are more important than happiness, other people, sanity, and God.
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^Yeah, at least she's not completely insane.
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Quote:I am going to make them play sports.
I didn't develop my leadership skills from sports. Sure, saying I developed them by playing chess and manipulating people doesn't sound pretty, but forcing kids to learn leadership isn't exactly a proper way of teaching leadership(because what if they believe leadership is the art of forcing people to do stuff, rather than the art of getting people do something without threat. Like that one military leader of WW2 about making a person want to do something, not making them to do it, is what leadership is)

Quote:I am going to make them mind their manners.
Better make sure you mind your own as well. If don't practice what you preach, it'll be a problem.

Quote:I’m going to make them turn off the television.
Or...ridding of a TV for their younger periods and letting them enjoy the other alternatives beats "GET THE *bleep* AWAY FROM THE TV KID!".

Quote:I’m going to make them be nice to people.
People tried to be nice to Hitler. He laughed at their sissyness and started a war.

Quote:I’m going to make my children take school seriously, but not too seriously.
I think it's more of a case of how seriously the parent takes it...

Quote:I’m going to make my children like each other.
Sibling rivalry will always exist. Can't make em like each other, you just have to treat them evenly and arbitrate neutrally.

Quote:I’m going to make my children take care of themselves.
Confused Don't most already get taught to care for personal hygiene?
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