RE: the 2016 trivial drivel thread

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My kids are at my service now. They know that nothing is "free". Chores, Dances, phone, internet its all about their grades and memorizing multiplication tables. I never back down.

I remember reading about child rearing back when I was pregnant and it was during the Dr. Sears era. Coddle your baby, sleep with them, pick them up right away when they cry....It continued in to the toddler years--if they were misbehaving you were supposed to "redirect" them blah, blah, blah.

What a bunch of crap. I should sue the lot of them for at least a part of the shit I'm dealing with now (and have been dealing with for years). Now it's Tiger Mom's (for some). Two completely different ends of the spectrum.

I over thunk my kids.