Why can't there be a test to pass before you're allowed to reproduce?

[Svenskaflicka]

Trailer for "Nannay 911" - a grown woman who sits with her arms around herself, whining to her 4-year-old: "Aoh! Stop hitting me! Aoh! Stop it!"

I couldn't tell who was the child, him or her...

If it had been me, I'd have grabbed the kid hard by the arms, met his glaring with a lion tamer look, and growled: "hit me again, and I'll hit you back, you little snot-muncher!"

What IS it about these people? How can grown-ups let themselves be terrorized by their own kids???????

 

[Honey123]

If only each child came with their own instructions booklet...

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Well, I think that after 4 years you'd learn that pleading with the monsters doesn't work.

M is very strict with her son (the daughter's too young yet), and if he misbehaves, she throws him into his room and tells him that he can't come out until he's calmed down and ready to apologize for what he did - and I tell ya, those apologies are sincere, not just hot air to get out of trouble!
When he's being good, on the other hand, she hugs him and tells him how good he is, and she loves surprising him with gifts or special events - but NEVER because he points at something in the store!

The kid's more well-behaved than most kids I see, and a very happy and harmonoius kid, too.

I'm gonna take after M when I have kids of my own. Strict and loving. Tough love, but a lot of love.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I can't believe you even watched that? but I do like your child rearing technique......I still shudder if my mom gives me...the look!!!

 

[Honey123]

I can't believe you even watched that? but I do like your child rearing technique......I still shudder if my mom gives me...the look!!!

My mom used to do that...I was a virgin for far too long, because she said she would see it in my eyes...

 

[cloudy]

I saw an episode of one of those trashy talk shows some time last year, maybe it was "Maury", where it was about kids that terrorized their parents. One of the kids was this tiny, petite, nine-year-old girl, and she was the most obnoxious child I'd ever seen. I found myself yelling at the television: "Whip her ASS!"

 

[scheherazade_79]

Sorry to be politically incorrect here, but if I had a kid who did that they'd end up getting a couple of damn good slaps - and to hell with Tony Blair if he wanted to arrest me over it.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

I'm personally very against raising hands to children, but whining and acting like a child yourself when a child hits you is ridiculous. Clearly you're letting the child know that you're not the one in control.

Parenting classes should be required for everyone who is planning to have children-no exceptions made-and I think everyone should have to spend some time with the nannies on Nanny 911. My sister turned me onto that show and I LOVE it!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

OR, they should all take a crash-course with M.

 

[cloudy]

I'm personally very against raising hands to children, but whining and acting like a child yourself when a child hits you is ridiculous. Clearly you're letting the child know that you're not the one in control.

Parenting classes should be required for everyone who is planning to have children-no exceptions made-and I think everyone should have to spend some time with the nannies on Nanny 911. My sister turned me onto that show and I LOVE it!

Never seen the show, and it would probably just piss me off to watch it.

Funny, if I didn't "raise my hands" to my two boys, I shudder to think how they would have turned out. "Time out" etc., is fine for kids it works with, but for my two? No way, time out just makes 'em laugh...in fact, half the time a good old-fashioned spanking doesn't even turn a hair on their heads.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

But there are other ways of punishing, that doesn't involve laying a hand on the kid - like making him loose priviledges.
I'm talking no TV, no computers, no mobile phones, etc.

I swear, if I ever get a call from a store that they have caught a kid of mine stealing, I'll take something away from the kid, to make them know the feeling of loss.

 

[cloudy]

But there are other ways of punishing, that doesn't involve laying a hand on the kid - like making him loose priviledges.
I'm talking no TV, no computers, no mobile phones, etc.

No offense, Svenska, but I always find it amusing when people with no children say this.

You don't know my boys.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My son got really mouthy with me in front of his friend the other day....I wanted to smack him but I calmly walked upstairs, disconnected his new PS2 and hid it.

 

[cloudy]

My son got really mouthy with me in front of his friend the other day....I wanted to smack him but I calmly walked upstairs, disconnected his new PS2 and hid it.

See, that doesn't work for me because 1) a four-year-old like mine is incapable of reason, and 2) his dad would simply find it and give it back

 

[ABSTRUSE]

See, that doesn't work for me because 1) a four-year-old like mine is incapable of reason, and 2) his dad would simply find it and give it back

He knows the next step was a spanking. I rarely hit but if I do, they know they've pushed the boundaries.
Normally I can divert the problem with distraction or by giving them a project...or just yelling..."Go outside now before my head comes off!!!"

 

[rgraham666]

Not having kids, my opinion may not mean much, but the best advice I ever heard was "keep your kids long on hugs and short on pocket money."

Never had much of either, myself.

 

[cloudy]

Not having kids, my opinion may not mean much, but the best advice I ever heard was "keep your kids long on hugs and short on pocket money."

Never had much of either, myself.

Awww....here *HUG*

Mine know I love them to distraction, but they also know that mama doesn't put up with any shit, either.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Not having kids, my opinion may not mean much, but the best advice I ever heard was "keep your kids long on hugs and short on pocket money."

Never had much of either, myself.

You'd make a cool daddy.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

No offense, Svenska, but I always find it amusing when people with no children say this.

You don't know my boys.

No, I only know M's boy. And I know the way he reacted when she shoved him into his room and told him to stay there until he was ready to behave - in spite of his playmates being there. They just had to play without him...

(Actually had quite an effect on them, too - they played nice and quiet out of fear she'd snap at them too.)

 

[ABSTRUSE]

(Actually had quite an effect on them, too - they played nice and quiet out of fear she'd snap at them too.)

Like second hand smoke.,,except with breasts.

 

[cloudy]

No, I only know M's boy. And I know the way he reacted when she shoved him into his room and told him to stay there until he was ready to behave - in spite of his playmates being there. They just had to play without him...

(Actually had quite an effect on them, too - they played nice and quiet out of fear she'd snap at them too.)

If that would work for mine, I would be more than happy to use it, however, that would just start a huge uproar that would last for hours. Better to give him a quick spanking, get it over with, and the behavior doesn't happen again.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Their parents just stared at her, shocked by her cruelty. Well, she DID tell the kid not to play with the antique chair, so he only had himself to blame for not obeying...

The parents of the other children were shocked to see someone actually going through with the punishment, instead of just shouting it lamely at the kid without leaving the other room.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

If that would work for mine, I would be more than happy to use it, however, that would just start a huge uproar that would last for hours. Better to give him a quick spanking, get it over with, and the behavior doesn't happen again.

M's kid doesn't dare to roar back when he's being punished - once when he did, she pushed him outside in the snow to cool off.

 

[cloudy]

M's kid doesn't dare to roar back when he's being punished - once when he did, she pushed him outside in the snow to cool off.

I have the added dimension of a dad I have to deal with, who thinks the kids do no wrong, and often get yelled at myself when I discipline the kids. Just quicker to do it my way, before dad gets involved. At least they do have SOME discipline that way.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My mother by today's standards, would have been jailed for child abuse...I found out why she loved yardsticks, it gave her an extra 3 ft.