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I have a hunch that a lot of the parents for whom non-spanking methods fail to work, are also parents that are trying to instill some sort of absurd religious or moral code into their kids.

Not saying that it's always the case, but I imagine that it's harder to reason with someone when you don't use reason yourself.

Lighten up, Francis,

I always wondered what inspired you to join the Army. It was molesting women with spatulas, wasn't it?

I bet that left Marx.

THis is also true in my case, my parents are both agnostics and I an atheist. My upbringing was about choices. I could have made the choice to be a little *******, my parents made sure I was aware of the consequences of my choice.


At 13, I was given the birds and the bees lecture. My mother pulled up pictures of victims, male and female, of various STD's. She showed me these pictures that still burn in my head to this day at 26 and said "This is what you are up against". She taught me how to use a condom on a banana, she told me what privileges I would lose, and how difficult life would be if I were to be a father not ready to be one. I'm still not a father, I still use condoms, and I get it. I know plenty of other guys who are my age and already have 12 year old children because they weren't taught properly, they didn't get it.

My parents wanted me to learn positive choice making and believed I wouldn't learn squat if they made every choice for me. Instead, they let me make my own decisions and I would suffer the consequences on my own. I knew it, I understood it, and I practice it. Which leads to me not being a criminal when all the dots lined up for me to be one.

They taught me the Aunt Jemima method of coercing critically time sensitive intell from unwilling PoWs in the Big Green Machine. It has had a wonderful transference to the civilian side of the house with Mrs. Totem.

Totem

The Aunt Jemima method? I'm scared to ask.



Same here. It's fun bein' a late kid.

I bet that left Marx

Yeah, it was a weird Engle.

Father: A card and a $200 gift certificate to Cabalos.

Mother: A card and a $200 gift certificate to Sears (she loves Sears).

Step-Father: A card and a years subscription to in-fisherman.

You were Jung, it's mostly invisible now.

You can still see the graphite coloration. It's essentially a tiny tattoo. I wish I had been one of those swipes that instead of a puncture was more of a Skinner.

This is silly. We Kant go on like this.

Nexa

Whatever, it's too Confucian for most of the posters.

Nexa

Yes, it quite makes their heads Spinoza.