On the crouch slap? If I had a strangers face in my crouch I'd probably slap it away too.

I'd hate to see your reaction when someone actually has a storng reavtion to you.

Actually one shouldn't ignore tantrums. Tantrums are an emotional outburst caused by under developed self control regions of the brian but highly devleoped emotonal ones. One can help a toddler througha tantrum by being empathic and tlakign them through what thye are experiancing (NOT by giving them what they want,…

I think itr's important for nos to be used where apropriate and to be expolained; because I think it's important to teach children not to blindly obey authority, but to expect authority to be well reasoned and able to expkain it's limitations. That's how power abuses happen, and they can be devistating. I also…

Being ok with it was not indicated in my reply; responsibility was.

Except that I just said children learn by example, not through lessons.. I could see this reply to the main post but in reply to me, this makes no sense. How does learbning that adults deny you when they feel like it help you learn to respevt the time of others?
It can certainly teach them to prioritise their time if…

That's not an arbitrary no, that's a reasoned out no :)

telling them no arbitrarily teaches them that people say no arbitrarily. Children don't think 'oh, maybe there's a good reaosn for this', no, they elarn that this is jsut what adults do so it's what they should do too. That's why authoritarian parenting has the largest percentage of delinquents - they learn by example…

"We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect
their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently
inhabit taverns and have no self control."Inscription, 6000 year-old Egyptian tomb
"When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly…

limited empathy; not no empathy. Kids respond positively to being told what people liek or don't like long before they have verbal skills - and choices really do help, but so do limiting those choices to 2-3 options for younger kids.

Love this, thank you.

she overslept whiule her child was being cared for, so no, not at all. It was the daycare proveder's job to ensure the child had care; they could have passed the child off to law enforcement if they really were't willing to keep caring for him.

The judge in this news story did the same thing, so you may want to rethink your position.

Oh gods, that judge... How could she keep her job????

Whelp. IU feel sick. The sexualisation of young girls just does me no favours.

Being genuinely confused is victim blaming because you don't ssee that he was the only one behaving wrongly! Because there's the idea she's 'toying' with him because she didn't do this, or that, making it her fault it escalated. Being confused doesn't let anyone off the hook for victim blaming. It puts you ON the…

Silence is not consent. Silence is easily shock, easily confusion. She didn't toy with him. He continued despite her lack of explicit consent to this explicit behaviour. If you think that someone has to say NO to refuse to be treated in this sexually explicit manner, then you're implying all people are available for…

If you're in a gay bar, you haven't just had someone stalk you to find your personal details to send you a private message then fail to take the hint of silence over several days and then tell you you MUST be interested because you haven't *walked out*.

Situations NOT AT ALL SIMILAR.

If you have, and you're still nice,…

What's so hard to understand about a man going FAR too far - going far enough to literally stalk a woman he's met once, in a store, deserving to be shot down, and hard? This man's behaviour crossed a good many lines. The simple fact he thinks it's ok because *the account wasn't deleted* shows he has no respect for the…

Being NICER about it signals to him that this is OK. IT's not. It's stalker behaviour. Being NICER about it allows men to decide that womena re just being coy and don't mean no. Have you ever actually been in this conversation? Being NICE just has men decide that you don't mean what you are saying. If yuou don't go…