| E/N Rant form the airport... | |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council  |
I jotted this downon my gf's laptop while wiating in the airport this morning...
Ok. I'm typing this while waiting at the airport to get on the plane to Chicago. Sitting at the gate with me, my brother, and my father is a couple with a ~2 year old son. This kid is smiling and stuff and makes actions like he wants to get up and stroll about. The mother proceeds to get out a red harness and strap it onto the kid, like a goddamn dog leash. She does all this while talking on her cell phone and the dad is mumbling about $DIETY knows what. When the kid reaches the end of the harness's reach he gets yoinked back. Afterwards he starts crying for a while and his mom gives him a spanking. Please note she's still yapping away on her cell phone. What the hell drives someone to treat a child, a prescious life like this? One word: Lazyness. Does this slothful couple represent a new breed of parenting, or have I not beenon this earth long enough to notice this? I hope some of our older members with kids of their own can chime in on this. I suppose it's not all that bad though. Right accross from me theres a guy walking his ~7 year old daughter through a new GBA game and they both seem to be having a ball. Right next to them is a Dad reading Scientific American to his daughter. That's too cool. Feh. I guess people arent all that bad after all. Thanks for wading through my e/n rant.  _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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ioshee - Student 
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This is why I should never produce offspring: I thought a leash was a good idea.
Maybe some people leash their kids and not their dogs because the dog behaves better than the kid does. On a serious note, I know of some parents who love and respect their kids a great deal, but use a leash in crowded places for the child’s safety. There are organizations that teach parents how to prevent their children from being kidnapped and most of them endorse kid leashes. I doubt anyone who is dead set against kid leases has ever had a child taken from them in public. I do think that if a kid really doesn’t like it (and you will be able to tell) then you should not use one. _______________ One of the Belouve boys |
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Narsil - Student 
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Leashes on little kids make me sick. Nuff said. _______________ "...and the sword of Elendil filled Orcs and Men with fear, for it shone with the light of the sun and of the moon, and it was named Narsil." Former Padawan of NoFrikinFun and Lightning Rod This comment was edited by Narsil on Feb 06 2003 11:07pm. |
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Gabba - Ex-Student 
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Its frankly amazing how many people have kids but are not preperd to put the effort in to raise them properly, very annoying _______________ Sit vis nobiscum. This comment was edited by Gabba on Jan 31 2003 09:59am. |
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MINDofSIN - Student 
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My 3 year old cousin plays JK sometimes when he's at my house. I set him up against bots, put him in blue stance, and get him Drain and Lightning. He likes to electrocute the poor bots. When he's low on health, I usually tell him to heal up.
"Whoa! Mark, come look! I just got a guy!" "Good job! Watch out for Tavion! Ouch, she got you pretty good, press space and go get her!" "Ok." *as he begins to track her down* hehe Arcuss and Shang, you guys sound like great parents. _______________ Jedi Academy Holocron http://jaholocron.ryanmh.com/ Why should our government send our soldiers to foreign soil to protect freedom of speech, when our freedom of speech is being taking away everyday by the same government. |
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Flamori Athena - Student 
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Yeah! Kids have rights 2, right?
How anyone could use a leash on another human being is beyond me. And as 2 all you Jeedai parents, hope ur kids all grow up 2 b strong with the Force. -Flamori 1- _______________ «±» 21st on the Midbie Council, Profile ID: 2027 «±» True wisdom is the knowledge that you know nothing. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Sucks also that it makes these kids tend to grow up to actu just like their parents. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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i don't see why parents would be so mean to their kids... it totally messes up their minds. you have to be patient and affectionate with a kid if you don't want him/her to turn into some psycho later on. icco i don't know what's up with that... some ppl just prefer dogs. personally i think they are simply sick or something. *sigh* all this proves what a great world we live in, doesn't it?  _______________ make install -not war This comment was edited by Bubu on Jan 13 2003 03:14am. |
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Ex-Rauc - Student |
I saw one person who is VERY mean to their kids. This individual had a [ballpark guess] 8 year old kid with them. They were at a D&D/Miniatures convention at the local inn. If their kid would talk to anybody who was busy, he would yell at the kid and make him sit in a chair until he was done with a game of D&D. If this kid talked at all, he would just start yelling at the kid like he had caught the whole place on fire. Then the mom came and I was thinking "Maybe now these kids will be treated like humans."
Two seconds later, the mom slaps the son for talking. I wasn't sure what was worse, the fact that she hit him for talking, or the fact that the better parent [from what I saw] out of the two is someone who goes ballistic if the kid talks.. [Edit: I changed the opening sentence a little] This comment was edited by Ex-Rauc on Jan 12 2003 11:59pm. |
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Shang Chi - Student 
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I am the proud daddy of two girls, one who is eight and one who is five. Both of them have been teaching me from day one about how life should be lived. I really do believe you learn most of what you need in life in kindergarden. Arcuss sounds like you are doing a great job. I personally would never put a leash on either of my children. I am trying to be a good parent as mine were to me. I know I am going to make mistakes along the way but I try to tell my children that daddy isn't perfect and I try to admit when I am wrong. My goal in life is for my children to look back someday when they are grown and say I had the best dad anyone could have.
Ps: they think daddy is strange to want to play that jedi game at his age. _______________ Thirty spokes converge on a single hub, but it is in the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the cart lies. Clay is molded to make a pot, but it is the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the clay pot lies. Cut out doors and windows to make a room, but it is in the spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the room lies. Therefore, Benefit may be derived from something, but it is in nothing that we find usefulness. |
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Icco - Student 
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i once saw a woman using a kid leash, and next to her was a dog with no leash. whats up with that? _______________ "this is Icco. Icco is old. Icco is lost. Icco is cool, but Icco doesn't know what the meaning of 'macrophageal sex'." - Vaughn /Icco |
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Vaughn - Student 
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heh, shes a jedi! Wow, tell her that you are also a great jedi with many powers. And if she doesnt eat her vegtables, youll take away her force powers/lightsaber... but if she does eat her vegtables... dont threaten her  _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Arcuss - Student 
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Lol Vaughn, seeing as how my JK2 skills are poor to begin with that shouldn't be to hard for her to do. As far as warping her mind, well she already tells me she's a Jedi, so I think I'm doing a fine job in that area. 
Besides I'd much rather have her play with computers than sit in front of the boobtube for hours on end. In any case she doesn't let me get near the computer when she's awake as it take attention away from her, and I wouldn't have it any other way. This comment was edited by Arcuss on Jan 12 2003 06:02pm. |
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Vaughn - Student
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hey Acruss, about her teaching you... maybe, if you introduce her to JK2 one day.... I think itd be funny if she was better than you, no offence meant.
just some random thing (but then, it may not be the best idea to destroy her mind on computers at such a young age) _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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arcuss you sound like a great daddy. i'd love to have you as my dad!
kid leashes are evil!!  _______________ make install -not war |
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Arcuss - Student 
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Very scary indeed. She's already well on her way to being smarter than the old man. In a few years she'll be teaching me.
And also very true, as honesty is one of my highest priorities, even with people I've never met outside of a chat room or online game. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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You having a kid = SCARY, Arcuss
But if what you say is true you are a good parent according to the DJ school of child development. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Arcuss - Student
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I'm a proud papa of two years now. I not sure if I can comment on the good/bad parenting issue because I think it's all subjective. One persons idea of good parenting may be another's idea of bad parenting. I not sure where my parenting skills lie on the scale either. I try to be the best parent I can. It's is after all the one thing I never prepared for, and I am not sure I could have prepared for. However like my Daddy-O always said, "life happens". So I do my very best to do the best I can. I have been reading to the Bean every day since she arrived home from the hospital, and I've been sharing music with her for even longer(head phones to the belly of a very annoyed Mrs. Arcuss). She has been to 9 festivals in her two years on Earth starting when she was 9 months old, and she always seems to enjoy herself at such events as she loves to be outdoors, and to dance. I try to teach her something new everyday, and I answer all of her little (why?,and what's that?) questions. I also do my very best to use positive reinforcement in regards to behavior as well as even the most menial task she manages to complete(coloring,counting,singing,cleaning up after her self,manners,ect..). Physical discipline is something I have never, and hopefully will never, find the need to use. I've found that a time out once in awhile cures bad behavior pretty quick, and I even get an occasional time out myself (hey it's only fair, and it's funny as hell to hear her say "you sit time out Daddy, you not behayb). Treat a child with love and you will have a child that loves. I think you know where I'm going with this. So what's the end result of the Arcuss parenting philosophy? I have a two year old that speaks every bit as well as some five year olds, has been counting to twenty since shortly after she could talk, counts to ten in Spanish, can identify 5 different shapes, several different instruments(by site and sound), knows many colors, reads to her stuffed animals(mimicking what I've read to her mind you), is polite, and confident. I could go on for hours like this, but since your most likely asleep by now I'll stop here. As I said in the beginning I'm new to this parenting business. I'm not sure if all those things are normal for a two year old or not, but they all sure as hell amaze me. So am I an example of good parenting? I don't know. What I do know is that the light in the center of my universe is bright and it keeps getting brighter every day. -Arcuss p.s. I hate kid leashes!!!! |
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