lol yepNancyM said:Yes Superman, I remember my parents giving us that too, when we had tooth aches. lol we slept good anyway!
lol yepNancyM said:Yes Superman, I remember my parents giving us that too, when we had tooth aches. lol we slept good anyway!
that's exactly what it is/was.stjohnjulie said:Usually a switch is a branch taken off a bush or tree. Ouch!
we all must've been pig headed or something b/c the threat of the switch and pickin it and all didn't do nothin'. it usually took getting the switched used us to work and that only lasted for about as long as it stung before we was all back "at it" again.mom2many said:My mom had me go and get one once. I had smarted off to her boyfriend and she took offense. Picking the switch off the tree was all it took. I never got spanked with it but the thought was more then enough for me.
I hear you, mrsrunster, and I know you're right, but its hard. I cannot bare to have anything bad happen to my girl, and I fear that I will spoil her and that she won't learn to cope with real life. But how do you do it? How could I knowingly expose my child to things that could harm her? I wish I could just keep her in that crystal tower for ever and ever, so she would never have to get hurt...mrsrunster said:but being overly careful that we dont expose our kids to anything that can harm them wont always help...keeping them in a crystal tower, far away from worlds cruel reality...wont prepare them from the jungle out there...
Hmm...how do i do it? im very good at theory, when its all about practice, i tend to be paranoid im worrying all the time, im making horror scenarios in my head, but im trying to get real..., i just let my older son to eat snow, i decided to let him go to the kindergarten (hes 2 yrs old), , to get used to the kids...as a result, a kid bit him by the face that he had a mouth shaped scar for a week , i cried myself to sleep that day, but...he continued to go... i let them play toghether even though the little one gets some slapping over the head sometimes...im not running to the older one every time he falls and starts crying( i evaluate how serious the situation is), im not giving them everything they are pointing at, they eat sometimes crackers that they find on the floor-cant be older than i day, because i vacuum daily...i dont know, there are many things i can give as example...small things, according to their age...that doesnt mean that i dont love them more then i love myself, that my heart isnt shivering every day he leaves to go the kindergarten....generally, thats how i do things right nowsingledad said:I hear you, mrsrunster, and I know you're right, but its hard. I cannot bare to have anything bad happen to my girl, and I fear that I will spoil her and that she won't learn to cope with real life. But how do you do it? How could I knowingly expose my child to things that could harm her? I wish I could just keep her in that crystal tower for ever and ever, so she would never have to get hurt...
singledad said:I hear you, mrsrunster, and I know you're right, but its hard. I cannot bare to have anything bad happen to my girl, and I fear that I will spoil her and that she won't learn to cope with real life. But how do you do it? How could I knowingly expose my child to things that could harm her? I wish I could just keep her in that crystal tower for ever and ever, so she would never have to get hurt...
when I was about 4 or 5, i fell off my dad's lap, hit the table leg with my face, and knocked my tooth out. so life is like that -- your kids can get hurt even when you're holding them in your arms.singledad said:I hear you, mrsrunster, and I know you're right, but its hard. I cannot bare to have anything bad happen to my girl, and I fear that I will spoil her and that she won't learn to cope with real life. But how do you do it? How could I knowingly expose my child to things that could harm her? I wish I could just keep her in that crystal tower for ever and ever, so she would never have to get hurt...
OMG - I had to google that, and now I kinda wish I hadn't. I feel a bit sick right now. Its so awful... Is there no country in the world where the welfare system actually functions well enough to protect the children? Seriously - Whats the point of having social workers if they're just going to return abused children to their parents, or refuse to believe that they are being abused it the first place?xox.ilu.xox said:omg...when I read about the baby P case, I cried. SO sad!!