Mary Fisher wrote:
"Mark" wrote in message
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On 08 Oct 2007 12:04:31 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:
In article ,
Stuart Noble writes:
Parents do the best they can given that most of them have other burning
issues to deal with at that time in their lives, but they do seem to
...and they get little or no training in what is probably the
most important job of their lives -- being a patent.
Crazy, isn't it? I think parenting skills should be on the national
curriculum.
Who's going to teach it?
The only "training" that most parents get is remembering what their
parents did. In this respect they are likely to repeat the same
mistakes unless they work *very* hard to avoid them (and that's
if they are even aware of them).
make hard work of it all. Children only want your time, and don't much
care how you spend it together, but the parents get bored. They want
"fun".
Fun - Ah, I remember that ;-)
It gets better, just hang on and fun will return :-)
For us life is almost 100% fun even when the grandchildren come - they're
better with us than they are with their own parents. They know that yes
means yes and no means no here and whining gets them nowhere.
Mary
Tom Waits quote
"I don't have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole
bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961
powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some
Mexican friends of mine. I haven't had fun since. It's not a word I
like. It's like Volkswagens or bell-bottoms, or patchouli oil or bean
sprouts. It rubs me up the wrong way. I might go out and have an
educational and entertaining evening, but I don't have fun."