Comments on: Kids ? dog

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 03:32:04 +0000

I remember the day my mom got her first brand new car. It was a base model 1966 Plymouth Valiant. The only “luxury” item was that it came with an automatic transmission. She cried. Even though I was only four it began to dawn on me that if she had to wait so long for her first new car maybe I shouldn’t whine about me not getting what I want RIGHT NOW!

Not like I have a great deal of memory about it. It’s more like fragments. I just remember being at the dealership when they drove it out for her to pick up. And her crying.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 03:04:13 +0000

I don’t know what everyone is getting so worked up about. I see a couple of parents teaching their children a valuable life lesson about deferred gratification. They can’t have what they want right this minute. They have to wait a few minutes. Hopefully, the interval will become longer as the kids get older. The children will be better off for it.

If YouTube and GoPro cams had been available back in the 1960s and ’70s when I was growing up you would have seen videos of my parents treating me exactly the same way. The best my parents could do was buy a house in a good area and put food on the table. And the table consisted of a sheet of plywood on top of produce crates with other produce crates we used as other types of furniture. It was the best he could do on a Coast Guard Senior Chief’s salary at the time.

We really didn’t belong in that neighborhood. I saw what other people who lived there had, and I whined about how we didn’t have the same things. I am so lucky that the internet didn’t exist. I was basically insulting my parents.

After we could afford furniture, and after my parents could afford to put my brothers and sister and I in Catholic school, then we got the dog. That’s how it works.

I don’t have a problem with anything in that video.

By: richf

richf — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:03:54 +0000

Okay, this doesn’t have much relevance, but here’s my puppy story.

I was about 14, and Christmas was coming up. My Dad and I, and (as I recall) one sister and one brother, picked out a puppy.

Then for about two days I pretended to be sick, so I’d have an excuse to stay in my room – with the puppy. On occasion, my sister or brother would spell me so I could come downstairs and eat.

The point of all that ? We had two even younger siblings, one brother and a sister… and we kept them completely in the dark about the puppy until Christmas morning.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 07:23:00 +0000

Why did the mother insist on this charade? At the beginning I wondered why they went to the shelter if she was now saying they weren’t ready for a puppy. Yes, I was upset about that. If you have a loving, joyful experience planned for your children, then why layer it with cruelty? Is it not enough to have nice, private family moments or experiences that we have to frame them as clickbait?
Those girls are too young to be expected to assume for all the care of that puppy, but they may grow into it. Given this video I don’t have much confidence that they will be trained lovingly.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:58:03 +0000

How utterly adorable!

By: Sonny Wayze

Sonny Wayze — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:31:10 +0000

After some reflection, I think the poor dog is in for a rough time if mom keeps using it as a…

Well, what is the term for this? She seems to enjoy teasing (insert stronger word here. Tormenting?) her children. Is the poor dog going to suddenly ‘run away’ someday so mom can get her giggles for a while?

SPCA? Hello, SPCA???

By: artfldgr

artfldgr — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:17:57 +0000

neo-neocon Says: June 28th, 2018 at 3:25 pm
Dave: These are actually children, not adults. One of them is very young.

yeah…
but children are only children today…
we crippled them…

David Glasgow Farragut

a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy.

He is remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” in U.S. Navy tradition

David Farragut’s naval career began as a midshipman when he was nine years old, and continued for 60 years until his death at the age of 69.

Through the influence of his foster father, Farragut was commissioned a midshipman in the United States Navy on December 17, 1810, at the age of nine

A prize master by the age of 12, Farragut fought in the War of 1812, serving under Captain Porter, his foster father. While serving aboard USS Essex

Farragut was 12 years old when, during the War of 1812, he was given the assignment to bring a ship captured by the Essex safely to port [his first military commission]

born July 5, 1801
December 17, 1810, appointed midshipman. [9 years old]
1812, assigned to the USS Essex. [11 years old]
1815–1817, served in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the Independence and the Macedonian. [12 years old]
1818, studied ashore for nine months at Tunis. [17 years old]
1819, served as a lieutenant on the USS Shark. [18 years old]

it wasnt till modern times we got into the kinder idea

The idea that childhood is socially constructed refers to the understanding that childhood is not natural process rather it is society which decides when a child is a child and when a child becomes an adult. The notion of childhood cannot be seen in isolation. It is deeply intertwined with other factors in society.

and the left has been extending it, and crippling society with it as our IQ has been going down (bad births over good ones due to social games), our abilities are in decline to be equal with others that lack abilities… and more

The Social Construction of Chilhoood
https://revisesociology.com/2015/05/06/social-construction-of-childhood/

However, despite broad agreement on the above, what people mean by childhood and the position children occupy is not fixed but differs across times, places and cultures. There is considerable variation in what people in different societies think about the place of children in society, about what children should and shouldn’t be doing at certain ages, about how children should be socialised, and about the age at which they should be regarded as adults.

By: n.n

n.n — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:59:27 +0000

The kids are instinctively using an appeal to emotion to argue for their position. The mother is guiding a natural evolution from emotional to rational arguments (or rather a synthesis) in a controlled environment. This happens in different forms (e.g. homework) in different spaces (e.g. school). Most people will develop emotional maturity, become productive members of society, and competent, respectful partners in relationships (e.g. couples).

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:50:18 +0000

I’m totally with John Guilfoyle — that what that mom did was “viscerally repulsive”. How could she possibly think it was in any way necessary, or, God forbid, cute, to put her little girls through that emotional trauma as a prelude to surprising them with the puppy? Sadistic, really.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:28:15 +0000

It’s the mother, father being a beta male with traditional parental gender roles reversed. She’s the one the children must appeal too, while the father nurture/soothes by suddenly appearing with the puppy.

And it’s a form of emotional blackmail by the mother. Now the children owe her and never shall they forget this days lesson.

Nor is the mother aware of what she’s revealed about herself.

And while the father may or may not be aware, clearly he’s not about to challenge her on it.

Which means that, should that family ever need defending from a threat, he won’t have the assertiveness to stand in the breach.