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azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-22 01:59 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-22 01:59 pm
Parent & kid things...
Every kid should have a way to play noisily, saying the same goddamn thing over and over and over if they bloody well want, with noisy toys... ...somewhere that the parents don't have to be disturbed by it.
Kids should be conditioned out of making those heart-stopping "my baby's getting murdered" noises unless they are in actual trouble as soon as possible.
The heart-stopping drop-it-all-and-run response when you hear your baby's voice shrieking with the "I'm about to get murdered" scream is conditioned, not genetic.
Kids should have the Constitutional right to have stuff explained to them correctly, in words that they can understand, when they ask about stuff, as soon as they're capable of understanding it.
Kids are capable of understanding it a lot sooner than you'd think; you just have to use the right words to hold the concepts.
Spongebob Squarepants is a thrall of the Demon Prince of Disgustingly Moronic, and should therefore be shunned by all except for the other thralls of the Demon Prince of Disgustingly Moronic.
All children's shows should be fun for kids, with enough cleverness and actual thought put into them to make them palatable to adults. (Sesame Street did a good job of that, with things that the kids utterly missed that had the adults in stitches.)
Kids should be conditioned out of making those heart-stopping "my baby's getting murdered" noises unless they are in actual trouble as soon as possible.
The heart-stopping drop-it-all-and-run response when you hear your baby's voice shrieking with the "I'm about to get murdered" scream is conditioned, not genetic.
Kids should have the Constitutional right to have stuff explained to them correctly, in words that they can understand, when they ask about stuff, as soon as they're capable of understanding it.
Kids are capable of understanding it a lot sooner than you'd think; you just have to use the right words to hold the concepts.
Spongebob Squarepants is a thrall of the Demon Prince of Disgustingly Moronic, and should therefore be shunned by all except for the other thralls of the Demon Prince of Disgustingly Moronic.
All children's shows should be fun for kids, with enough cleverness and actual thought put into them to make them palatable to adults. (Sesame Street did a good job of that, with things that the kids utterly missed that had the adults in stitches.)
Re: Parent & kid things...
Re: Parent & kid things...
Fortunately for me, I remember a lot from back when I was a kid (I started my first diary at ten, and I re-read periodically), so I have a better idea than many grown-ups.
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Our kids were told, "You can yell when you're playing (assuming the parents haven't said no yelling today, etc.) but NO SCREAMING allowed unless someone is bleeding." Literally. If one of my kids screamed (and believe me, they understand the difference between the tone of voice in yelling and screaming, and if they didn't, I demonstrated) I would ask them, "Is someone bleeding? Is someone *hurt*?" They would all shake their heads no. I would then proceed to discipline whoever screamed. They learned to stop screaming. The time that Josiah got his finger sliced in the door...they *screamed* Mom, not yelled. There was a distinct *difference* in their tone, and everybody knew how to do it, too. :D
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I can hear the tone of voice in Other People's Kids too. When I was babysitting the three kids next door (not literally next door, but close enough as things are figured in sub-suburban Alaska) and had barely gotten to know them, I figured that I needn't watch kids seven, five, and four every blessed moment while they were brushing their teeth, and proceeded to put the upstairs to rights while they were doing it.
Scream.
Babysitter come running.
Turns out that the gorgeous little Gryfflepuff (we don't know which of those two she'll be Sorted into yet) had decided to shave her legs like Mommy. Shallow cut, lots of pain, lots of blood, two very very concerned sisters, who eventually produced the razor after I had correctly identified the type of cut and told them to hand it over. Now. (The eldest looks to be a Ravenclaw, and the middle one is *so* a Slytherin.)