Supplemental O2 and children

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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If your kids are not normally inclined to behave themselves, you've
screwed
up.

Kids have the attention span of a gnat... No kid is naturally inclined to
behave themselves... It's learned behavior... In my daughter's case, it's
learned behavior from fear of me... That's the way it has been throughout
history -- "Wait Until Your Father Gets Home"...

Children don't fear their mother... She's got 9 months invested in making
them... Fathers on the other hand are definitely to be feared... Fathers
only have 15 minutes invested... They're willing to cut their losses and
start again... Kids instinctively know this...

"Grumman-581" wrote in
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Respect is far better than any of the above...

Respect won't necessarily get someone to do something which they're not
normally inclined to do... Fear will...

Fear only works when they think you're watching.

My father was a fear motivator. I just learned to lie better.

"Judah" wrote in message
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Fear only works when they think you're watching.

Well, you just need to make them think that you're always watching... My
daughter is thoroughly convinced that there is no way she can hide things
from me... Yeah, I'm probably a hypocrite -- I'm just trying to keep her
from doing the things that I did when I was young... If I'm successful,
she'll end up with quite a few less broken bones over the years...

My father was a fear motivator. I just learned to lie better.

Ahhh, but that just means he wasn't good enough at it... If he had been
*really* good at it, you would have been terrified to even try to lie...
evil-grin

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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"Judah" wrote in message
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Fear only works when they think you're watching.

Well, you just need to make them think that you're always watching... My
daughter is thoroughly convinced that there is no way she can hide things
from me... Yeah, I'm probably a hypocrite -- I'm just trying to keep her
from doing the things that I did when I was young... If I'm successful,
she'll end up with quite a few less broken bones over the years...

Why not just teach them that good behavior is better for them in the long
run, then come up with scenarios that demonstrate that point?


My father was a fear motivator. I just learned to lie better.

Ahhh, but that just means he wasn't good enough at it... If he had been
*really* good at it, you would have been terrified to even try to lie...
evil-grin

And then when they've grown and are out of the house you can look back at
what a derelict, dysfunctional person you created.

Good going "Dad"!!

(And we wonder why our world and our modern culture is so saturated with
thugs).