EXACTLY!!! :D

These are the kids that become MY roommates! LOL! I'm in full agreement that the parents have allowed this to happen. Kids only do what you'll let them. So, that's why I have no problem with the parents moving out. Maybe they can use the time to think up a new gameplan.

Shiiiiiiiiii as long as I am paying the mortgage and all other bills, anything that comes out of my uterus will not force me to leave my comfortable surroundings.

A N W I H

I knew I had chores to do growing up, and if they did not get done, my mother was a VERY UNPLEASANT woman to deal with. She saved and everything, but let her carpet not get vacuumed or dishes washed. :o :o :o

My sentiments exactly.

Stardusttwin, we are on the same page. If you can't do what you are supposed to do, I can't continue to finance nothing other than the basics.

Nikki1920, my 5 year old is responsible for keeping his room clean daily. I mean nothing on the floor, under the bed, desk clean. I hang his clothes up only because he can't reach that high. He even tries to make his bed. Of course, I have to go behind him but at least he knows it has to be done.

These things start early and so do the consequenses of not doing them.

smlwonderdst: ^5. I am a semi slob, I'll admit that. But I do make a concerted effort to keep my room clean and to clean up after myself. My child knows that she has to make her bed every day, and she can choose to do it when she wakes up OR when she gets home. She knows that her shoes go in her closet. She knows to put things back where she got them when shes finished with them. Small things like this make for decent college roommates. ha ha! I had a messy one, and I was ready to throw her OUT. I just made certain that my half was super clean. She got the picture. (Embarrassment works too....)

And the key word here is CONSEQUENCES!!!

eta: what is ANWIH? *brain fart*

Ain't No Way In Hayle!!

Sounds to me like the kids won... they drove their parents out. If I'd tried to pull anything like that growing up, it wouldn't have been my parents' butts out on the front lawn... it would have been mine!

<disclaimer>not a mother</disclaimer> Kids have to learn responsibility. Start when they're little, with some simple age-appropriate chores like putting their toys away when they're done playing with them. Work up to bigger chores like setting the table, doing the dishes, putting out the trash. This way, they grow up knowing that they are part of a household and there are things they have to do in order to keep that household running smoothly.

Lisa Whelchel BKA Blair from Facts of Life is on GMA is now a "parenting expert." She was speaking on this parenting incident in Florida. There is also a mother who has a son who is a class clown and she makes him wear a poster board and stand on a street corner with the sandwich board. Tell him to knock it off. I was a class clown. My mother told me to stop. I didn't. She whooped me when it got bad or took away privileges.


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I'm still trying to get my mind around "Blair" being a parenting expert :eek:

But I feel you, CT4. The "Board" of education applied to the "seat" of knowledge once or twice made me an excellent student in the school of "Act Right." :D

...CT4 a class clown? who'da thunk it?

Tony, leave me be.

Not as much a class clown, but more of one who talked out or tried to get the approval of my classmates :rolleyes: by speaking out or not ACKING right or clowning my teachers.

In first grade, I used to get up in class and dance. :eek: I did not know it then but my mother would come and stand at the classroom door and watch me (she worked nights) and I would get home and get the belt.:o :eek:

When you got home ?!? Man, you were lucky. My mom would have let me finish my dance and then came in that classroom and tore me up. My mom was a big fan of "I clown where you clown".

Smlwonderdst, our mothers must be sisters. My mom's unofficial motto was "where you show your behind, that's where I'll deal with your behind." I knew my dad was crazy, so I never tried him. :D

I was shocked too. I really did not remember this at all! I must have blacked it out of my whooping history. My mom was a big fan of showing out too. Her belief was I can act a fool better than you. :eek:

Lisa Whelchel a parenting expert? i read that she would put hot sauce on her kid's tongue if they acted up. that to me is more torture-like than parenting. especially since i loathe hot sauce.
but that's just me;)

^^
I was looking for an inspirational book for our book club and came across a book on Lisa Whelchel and parenting. She sort of went Kirk Cameron and plunged full-on into faith.