I spank very rarely, but when I do it’s as a consequence for one thing and one thing only: Saying “no” to mommy or daddy. They know that saying “no” will get them spanked each and every time. They don’t say no very often anymore.
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I (mis-)interpret that to mean spanking can’t be the go-to punishment. I spank my kids only when I have to and I’ve genuinely seen positive outcomes from it. It’s always been my last resort as a way to snap them out of whatever behavioral loop they’re stuck in, and it works but it works less when I use it more. I’ve…
I read your comment as an extremely good way to consistently enforce the rules. I never thought to use Alexa for the timer, but that’s brilliant! And I think I’m going to have my kids choose a time out spot in our house tonight. I like everything you said!
Really good article. Consistency really is the main thing with kids. If you bend the rules, they’ll break them.
The whole time I read that I couldn’t help picturing Radar from MASH mailing home a jeep one piece at a time.
Moral is: Life sucks, then you die.
Did it fire rockets and torpedoes?
“An Hilarious Optical Illusion” made me chuckle.
I once ordered a pair of chameleons from an ad in the back of Boy’s Life. It said 4-6 weeks for delivery, but 8 weeks later I had nothing. My mom made phone calls and wrote letters and eventually I got two chameleons in the mail... stone dead. I was heartbroken as a kid of maybe 7 or 8, but that taught me some…
Came here for the trainwreck of terrible advice. Was not disappointed.
I don’t know about the racism, but I’ll agree that Dr. Seuss books aren’t the literary classics some people make them out to be. Aside from a few exceptions most of them achieve their tight rhyme schemes by using completely made up words and then cramming as many rhymes as possible onto each page.
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Who even cares what side of the road people drive on?! I’ve never even paid attention before.
Businesses do that to save money. People average something like 30% less toilet paper use when it’s a back roll. It’s terrible, but it’s science. And math. Some economics. Mostly terrible, though.
Cat or toddler. As soon as those resolve themselves anyone who doesn’t front-roll is a monster.
I feel like the traditional path of “High school -> College -> Career” is being challenged more and more nowadays and I can’t wait for everything to catch up. A college degree has been the facile screening technique for too long and now it seems more industries are screening and hiring using techniques that determine…
SO MUCH THIS. Undergraduate degrees should be focused on fields that will get you work. Graduate degrees can be in whatever you want, but kids go into college and think “Hey! Philosophy of Interpretive Dance! That’s the major for me!” and then they struggle the rest of their lives because the college-aged version of…