B.A.: She’s sending him out without boots? Worst mother ever.
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In her defense, the boots are either near the house or the snow/cold is clearly not an issue for him.
He came through the snow from wherever he lost them with no boots. Maybe parents don’t do this so much now, but when I was a kid they would make us experience the consequences of our error. You dropped the milk bottle on the way home and it broke? No milk for you tonight. The teacher gave you a zero on your homework because you didn’t do it? You got a zero, kid, maybe next time you’ll do your homework.
Good parenting involves knowing when to let your kids experience the bad natural consequences of their behavior, and when to protect them from those natural consequences. Kids can deal with not having milk, or getting a zero on their homework. But it’s not good to let your kids experience the natural consequences of failing to look both ways before crossing the street. Having a kid search walk around for a long time in the snow in his socks seems closer to the latter.
Yeah, but if a kid loses boots within sight of the house, won’t the kid walk more or less straight to the front door, with some kind of visual idea of where they’re located, where the discomfort began?
Yeah, but if a kid loses boots within sight of the house, won’t the kid walk more or less straight to the front door, with some kind of visual idea of where they’re located, where the discomfort began? i.e., they’re not lost.
If I lost something important, my mom would make me go find it right away. How important are boots? If the boots are not important, the kid won’t mind walking barefoot through the snow. If the kid DOES mind walking barefoot through the snow, the boots are important, and making the kid walk barefoot through the snow to find them will both recover the boots and teach a lesson.
Yah, that’s what you do, important lesson find the boots. With maybe a de-brief with a warm foot bath to follow.
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Okay – you all convinced me. I will not “borrow” another of Robert’s plastic, reusable toothpicks to replace the one I have been using and have lost, as I planned to. I will keep looking no matter how much piles up in my terribly taken care of teeth. Brief case? Car cup holder? Winter jacket pocket? I should have left it home as I had no jeans pocket that I keep it in, due to going to work in appropriate professional accountant clothing (or at least a sweater and skirt instead of jeans, tee shirt and sweatshirt) which had no pocket.
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In her defense, the boots are either near the house or the snow/cold is clearly not an issue for him.
He came through the snow from wherever he lost them with no boots. Maybe parents don’t do this so much now, but when I was a kid they would make us experience the consequences of our error. You dropped the milk bottle on the way home and it broke? No milk for you tonight. The teacher gave you a zero on your homework because you didn’t do it? You got a zero, kid, maybe next time you’ll do your homework.
Good parenting involves knowing when to let your kids experience the bad natural consequences of their behavior, and when to protect them from those natural consequences. Kids can deal with not having milk, or getting a zero on their homework. But it’s not good to let your kids experience the natural consequences of failing to look both ways before crossing the street. Having a kid search walk around for a long time in the snow in his socks seems closer to the latter.
Yeah, but if a kid loses boots within sight of the house, won’t the kid walk more or less straight to the front door, with some kind of visual idea of where they’re located, where the discomfort began?
Yeah, but if a kid loses boots within sight of the house, won’t the kid walk more or less straight to the front door, with some kind of visual idea of where they’re located, where the discomfort began? i.e., they’re not lost.
If I lost something important, my mom would make me go find it right away. How important are boots? If the boots are not important, the kid won’t mind walking barefoot through the snow. If the kid DOES mind walking barefoot through the snow, the boots are important, and making the kid walk barefoot through the snow to find them will both recover the boots and teach a lesson.
Yah, that’s what you do, important lesson find the boots. With maybe a de-brief with a warm foot bath to follow.
zookee[er. cat on the keyboards after my stew bowl.
Okay – you all convinced me. I will not “borrow” another of Robert’s plastic, reusable toothpicks to replace the one I have been using and have lost, as I planned to. I will keep looking no matter how much piles up in my terribly taken care of teeth. Brief case? Car cup holder? Winter jacket pocket? I should have left it home as I had no jeans pocket that I keep it in, due to going to work in appropriate professional accountant clothing (or at least a sweater and skirt instead of jeans, tee shirt and sweatshirt) which had no pocket.