yeah, and as much as the current benefit system is inherrently wrong, I bennefit from it after splitting from my wife and having 5 kids.
If you allow kids to 'get away with things' from a young age, they get to a point that they feel 'invincible' which is ALWAYS a bad thing.
Some things my kids are tought
Self Respect
Pride
Politeness and manners
Discipline
Self Control
Respect for property
My kids know that if I caught them willingly damaging/breaking/being spiteful etc they are in trouble, they know not to have hissy fits when they don't get something.
Some things they get from me
Trust
unconditional love
respect
lead by example
There are kids around here I absoloutely hate due to how they 'behave' and it is never 'that kids fault' when they are in trouble according to their folks.
This behaviour is endemic of a society now so scared to tackle unruly youths, you even think twice about escorting a child to customer services in a shop if you think he/she has lost it's parents.
Society is CRAP now, give power back to parents and teachers and not use the rule of DUMB, in other words, creating laws to cover the lowest common denominator of life, so we ALL get treated as prospective child beaters, peadaphiles and abusives....
Someone take me soap box please....
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