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#27 Jun 10 2014 at 5:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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Are we missing the point? Did she really ask five times and then yell? What happened then?

Behavior 101 - if you ask your kid eight times to please not touch that, then go over and remove it from his/her hand, you will eventually notice that even when the kid has his/her back to you they stop touching it after the eighth time - while you are walking over to them. The only thing you've taught them is that they can wait until the eighth time before they have to stop touching it.

Why are we so afraid to be strict with children? Harpy's real problem is that she's 18 months old and making decisions, while mommy is asking "Harpy can we leave now?" @#%^ that. Am I the only one that thinks negotiating with a child is a bad idea?



It is, but that is why children are great negotiators. They are tenacious, they will wear you down; worse, they know what you do, where you live, your organizational structure your habits and your basic approach to them. After a third kid, you will be just talking about how it used to be around here.

I always thought that the negotiator movie should star some 9 year old that kept repeating are we there yet.
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A woman I work with named her daughter Sharllette because she didn't want her to be nicknamed Charlie. One of my pet peeves is people intentionally using dumbass spellings of traditional names, so I give her sh*t about that now and then when I'm bored.


This also increases the odds of their child ending out in prison or working in the adult entertainment industry by about a factor of 10.
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A woman I work with named her daughter Sharllette because she didn't want her to be nicknamed Charlie. One of my pet peeves is people intentionally using dumbass spellings of traditional names, so I give her sh*t about that now and then when I'm bored.


This also increases the odds of their child ending out in prison or working in the adult entertainment industry by about a factor of 10.


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A woman I work with named her daughter Sharllette because she didn't want her to be nicknamed Charlie. One of my pet peeves is people intentionally using dumbass spellings of traditional names, so I give her sh*t about that now and then when I'm bored.


This also increases the odds of their child ending out in prison or working in the adult entertainment industry by about a factor of 10.


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#32 Jun 10 2014 at 8:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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Am I the only one that thinks negotiating with a child is a bad idea?

It's better than being interrogated by one.
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#33 Jun 10 2014 at 9:17 PM Rating: Default
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cynyck wrote:
Are we missing the point? Did she really ask five times and then yell? What happened then?

Behavior 101 - if you ask your kid eight times to please not touch that, then go over and remove it from his/her hand, you will eventually notice that even when the kid has his/her back to you they stop touching it after the eighth time - while you are walking over to them. The only thing you've taught them is that they can wait until the eighth time before they have to stop touching it.

Why are we so afraid to be strict with children? Harpy's real problem is that she's 18 months old and making decisions, while mommy is asking "Harpy can we leave now?" @#%^ that. Am I the only one that thinks negotiating with a child is a bad idea?



Those are my sentiments. Never negotiate with a 2 year old.

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Why are we so afraid to be strict with children? Harpy's real problem is that she's 18 months old and making decisions, while mommy is asking "Harpy can we leave now?" @#%^ that. Am I the only one that thinks negotiating with a child is a bad idea?


We're "afraid" because "being strict" with an 2 year old doesn't work to moderate behavior, and serves one purpose and one purpose only, propping up the caregiver's ego. You ask the child if "We can leave now" because you're modeling behavior for them not because you literally want them to consider an answer. It's laying the ground work for "can I have that" instead of "gimme" in a year.

Child development is a field of study, it's not a @#%^ing mystery and not something your @#%^ friends who happen to have squeezed out a kid are experts in by virtue of reproducing.


......That's definitely a cultural difference, because I assure you, being strict with a 2 year old definitely works if done properly.
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I always thought that the negotiator movie should star some 9 year old that kept repeating are we there yet.


God dammit, stop making me rate you up!
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I've thought about your replies. In general, I don't agree. Children need consistency in their parents and I don't know when you stop modeling the behavior of negotiation. Three? Four? Sixteen? Sometimes old adages do mean something, and "bigger kids, bigger problems" has meaning.

Regardless, I'm done raising children and on to grandchildren now so I get to not worry about discipline and just get to spoil her. And while I've seen some questionable parenting over the years (a nephew who still needed his steak cut by mommy at 16 comes to mind), unless it crosses the line into abuse parents have the right to raise their children however they see fit. I don't have to agree with it though, as long as I keep my opinion to myself or express it only in an online forum.

There are bigger windmills to tilt at.

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#36 Jun 11 2014 at 1:15 AM Rating: Good
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My son has a name, that while it is somewhat popular in the Netherlands, is extremely uncommon here in the US.
Renner? Asa?

There are quite a few palindrome names, now that I think about it. More for girls, I'd guess.
Bob
I can't think of any other than Otto and Bob that would be reasonably common here but I'd guess nobody would be surprised by either of those names in the US.
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Never met an "otto".
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That's definitely a cultural difference, because I assure you, being strict with a 2 year old definitely works if done properly.

Nope. Not an open question, your anecdotes are fucking meaningless, as always.
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That's definitely a cultural difference, because I assure you, being strict with a 2 year old definitely works if done properly.

Nope. Not an open question, your anecdotes are fucking meaningless, as always.


It's actually a well known fact that children discipline vary in culture. Don't blame me for your arrogant stupidity. Your pompous anecdotes are meaningless, as always.
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It's actually a well known fact that children discipline vary in culture. Don't blame me for your arrogant stupidity. Your pompous anecdotes are meaningless, as always.

My PhD in a related field trumps your wild ******* guess and "well known facts".

Here's my cite for you:

http://www.amazon.com/Sociology-For-Dummies-Jay-Gabler/dp/0470572361
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TirithRR wrote:
Samira wrote:
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My son has a name, that while it is somewhat popular in the Netherlands, is extremely uncommon here in the US.
Renner? Asa?

There are quite a few palindrome names, now that I think about it. More for girls, I'd guess.
Bob
I can't think of any other than Otto and Bob that would be reasonably common here but I'd guess nobody would be surprised by either of those names in the US.

I can't say I've ever met an Otto. Simpsons not counting.

As for Bob. Can't say I've ever met a person who was named Bob. Always Robert, just shortened.
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#42 Jun 11 2014 at 6:18 AM Rating: Decent
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It's actually a well known fact that children discipline vary in culture. Don't blame me for your arrogant stupidity. Your pompous anecdotes are meaningless, as always.

My PhD in a related field trumps your wild @#%^ing guess and "well known facts".

Here's my cite for you:

http://www.amazon.com/Sociology-For-Dummies-Jay-Gabler/dp/0470572361


Well, maybe you should toss your PhD in the trash, because it's obviously worthless if you never came across the topic of capital corporal punishment across cultures. It took me two minutes to find references on the net. Just because you got a PhD in "Look at me", doesn't make you correct.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/14/is-spanking-a-black-and-white-issue/spanking-is-part-of-black-culture

http://digitaljournal.com/article/291291

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/14/is-spanking-a-black-and-white-issue/peer-pressure-and-spanking-among-black-parents

http://committedparent.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/why-its-harmless-to-spank-your-kids-if-theyre-black/

This is so obvious that the media even jokes about it. Clearly, you wasted your time and should start over, or better yet, just give up.


Edited, Jun 11th 2014 2:27pm by Almalieque
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'Strict' is a pretty poorly defined term. Don't confuse it with 'consistent'. If you're consistent, you'll get fairly predictable results.

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It's human behavior to want our way and desire to break rules if we can get away with it. If we don't enforce the rules, then there is no point in having them.
#45 Jun 11 2014 at 7:23 AM Rating: Good
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(a nephew who still needed his steak cut by mommy at 16 comes to mind)
Sounds like it's well passed time to cut their losses and start over.
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Another nephew's kid is named 'Hunter'.

Teach him to play the banjo. Seriously, that's a classic example of a name that was a common elite children's name and then just spewed out into the WT masses, and now may as well be "I was born in a trailer park!" I'm sure the kid's lovely though.

My son has a name, that while it is somewhat popular in the Netherlands, is extremely uncommon here in the US. Because we're douchebags, before you ask, we are simply giant douchebags twee enough to want both our children to have names that were palindromes and didn't want to name him Otto; and we love explaining the kids name to everyone. I mostly call him Scarecrow lately, not sure if that's offensive or not, but the park moms seem mildly perturbed by it.


I warned you it was a bad idea to name your son Kavek. He'll face discrimination and alienation all his life.
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TirithRR wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
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Samira wrote:
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My son has a name, that while it is somewhat popular in the Netherlands, is extremely uncommon here in the US.
Renner? Asa?

There are quite a few palindrome names, now that I think about it. More for girls, I'd guess.
Bob
I can't think of any other than Otto and Bob that would be reasonably common here but I'd guess nobody would be surprised by either of those names in the US.

I can't say I've ever met an Otto. Simpsons not counting.

As for Bob. Can't say I've ever met a person who was named Bob. Always Robert, just shortened.
I'm not saying they're common, just that I don't think anyone would see those names as particularly odd.

Googling the other male palindrome names I can find that are not out there in Dutch are Onno and Reinier, the second one being very unintuitive to pronounce in English.

Edited, Jun 11th 2014 3:31pm by Aethien
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This also increases the odds of their child ending out in prison or working in the adult entertainment industry by about a factor of 10.

10 times more likely to end up a law-breaking ***** because of the name Sharllette? God you say stupid stuff.

If your name is tyrone you might be negatively discriminated against for your name but only because people will assume you're black.

Oh wait, there's no racial bigotry in this country.
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His Excellency Aethien wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
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Samira wrote:
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My son has a name, that while it is somewhat popular in the Netherlands, is extremely uncommon here in the US.
Renner? Asa?

There are quite a few palindrome names, now that I think about it. More for girls, I'd guess.
Bob
I can't think of any other than Otto and Bob that would be reasonably common here but I'd guess nobody would be surprised by either of those names in the US.

I can't say I've ever met an Otto. Simpsons not counting.

As for Bob. Can't say I've ever met a person who was named Bob. Always Robert, just shortened.
I'm not saying they're common, just that I don't think anyone would see those names as particularly odd.

Googling the other male palindrome names I can find that are not out there in Dutch are Onno and Reinier, the second one being very unintuitive to pronounce in English.

Edited, Jun 11th 2014 3:31pm by Aethien

Where did the clue that smash's kids name was a palindrome get dropped? I missed it. Maybe his name is Alla.

The name Otto will always conjure up an image of Kevin Kline getting run down by a steam-roller.
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If your name is tyrone you might be negatively discriminated against for your name but only because people will assume you're black.

Oh wait, there's no racial bigotry in this country.

That's why you make it their middle name.Smiley: nod

Edited, Jun 11th 2014 3:40pm by Almalieque
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My son has a name, that while it is somewhat popular in the Netherlands, is extremely uncommon here in the US. Because we're douchebags, before you ask, we are simply giant douchebags twee enough to want both our children to have names that were palindromes and didn't want to name him Otto;



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