Date Posted:16:39:22 02/09/06 Thu Author: lump Subject: Re: Good things about parenting In reply to:
lump
's message, "Good things about parenting" on 14:26:31 02/07/06 Tue
Oh yeah - and pick up a copy of Freakonomics and read the rather short chapter on parenting!
Well, the friends I'm talking about are consistent in their impatience and use of yelling as a child-rearing technique.
I want to let my kids be kids (5 year old boys should be allowed to run around and make noise most of the time, as long as no one is getting hurt). I don't want to forget what it was like to be a kid. I still remember now what it felt like - feeling like you're the absolute center of the universe and nothing at the same time. I remember being positively terrified and positively elated. Extremes of emotion that I can no longer attain. I remember how easy it was to get completely lost in my own imagination. Just totally lost.
For me, the most important thing to get across is integrity. It's the main thing I learned from my dad - I may not agree with a lot of his political and religous views, but the man does what he says and always has.
I'm just really looking forward to this, not just because I already love the little bundle of cells, but because I'm so goddamned curious about how all of this is going to work.
It's wierd, though, I'm 30 and I still feel like I'm a kid in so many ways. Like I shouldn't really be allowed to do this yet - the stakes are so unbelievably high.
