Does proper parenting even occur anymore in the US?

[+ Avalon]

Thank-you.

 

Here is info on Florence King. I was unfamiliar with her. She was a very interesting person.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_King

[Good Grief]

Here is info on Florence King. I was unfamiliar with her. She was a very interesting person.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_King

 

An excellent, though controversial writer/author.

[P Gren]

When I was in grade school, it wasn't quite that regimented, but we walked everywhere in lines, single-file and were usually not allowed to talk. The teachers were mostly iron-fisted old unmarried ladies who didn't take any shit.

Were kids allowed to be left handed?

[+ bigjoey]

in my school (by which i mean the one in which i currently teach) we are more concerned with getting kids to understand their actions, their motivations, and the possible consequences (positive and/or negative) of them.... it accompanies well a stance of teaching content for understanding.... not just rote repetition either of content or of norms without real understanding taking place.

 

do they "act up"? at times, of course... they are teenagers. but the consequences are more consequential than a reward/punishment cycle.

 

google "restorative justice" and "discipline with dignity" for more details!

 

You sound like a good teacher.

 

Not only in school but in the workplace and social groups, I found that positive motivation to get people to take responsibility for their own actions works better than any other approach. I always cringed when I saw a teacher or supervisor or volunteer leader criticize a student, worker or volunteer in public rather than do so in private in a positive manner. Too many people try to change another person's behavior by public shaming. The only permanent way to change behavior is by getting that person to take responsibility for their behavior.

[+ Avalon]

Were kids allowed to be left handed?

 

I had heard stories about left-handed children being forced to use their right hand but my father was left-handed and he said that never happened to him.

[Islesguy]

I had heard stories about left-handed children being forced to use their right hand but my father was left-handed and he said that never happened to him.

A friend of mine's mother was forced to learn to be right-handed when she went to college to become a teacher in the 60's.

[Rudynate]

Were kids allowed to be left handed?

 

Not that I remember.

[+ oldNbusted]

I was looking out the front window today and got to watch the teenager from next door stand in front of his family car at the curb, look up the street, then down the street, then whip out his junk and take a piss into the gutter. I really wanted badly to tap on the glass and watch him fall down pissing on himself trying to get it back in his pants.

[BabyBoomer]

I was looking out the front window today and got to watch the teenager from next door stand in front of his family car at the curb, look up the street, then down the street, then whip out his junk and take a piss into the gutter. I really wanted badly to tap on the glass and watch him fall down pissing on himself trying to get it back in his pants.

 

Maybe he knew you were watching..

 

~Boomer~