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With these kinds of stories it’s not always immediately certain what anyone’s motivations are. This story is only a few hours old-- I hesitate to assume anything here until more info comes out.
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at some point you have to let them make their own decision and have their own choices, and figure it out for themselves. [/quote]
It’s always refreshing to see a lack of helicopter parenting.
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As an atheist, the only part I object to is the Protestant.
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Oh, I was a total helicopter parent. With like one exception before she went to school, one of us was always with her (no sitters at all).
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Well at that age it is a different thing… being around to quickly help out when they fuck up or stop them from seriously injuring themselves is good at those ages as long as you still let them explore and take risks all is good.
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I agree with the general theory. To be honest, her mom is most likely more conservative in what is appropriate dress than I am. And thus far she is such a rule follower I can’t even do things with her that might not be OK with mom.
I am also more of a believer of letting one make their own mistakes or bad times - to a degree. Of course there are limits on that.
But who knows what will happen or if she will act out later in life. Already in her school are some real snots at 10/11 years.
Thanks for the feedback.
Sounds like someone needs a designated slime making area/room. Kids need boundaries.
Good heavens, you’re right! This changes everything! That harlot!
Aw geeze, part of me wants to do this, and part of me doesn’t want to open that door…
We did make Oobleck many years ago.
Don’t show her this. Or do, I don’t run your life.
Sort of a paradox, until proved or analyzed to be one way or another, one can assume its both racially motivated or not, depending on your outlook. Schrodinger’s cat sort of thing. I get your point, it may or may not be directly tied to it, but many people will use it as a spring board to further awareness that it happens a lot, even if not in this specific case. I think one can acknowledge it happens with out assuming that it is the reason for every instance.
To be fair, the TSA siphoned away any of the 1/2 way competent mall cops. They have the left overs that couldn’t pass the grope test with out drooling or giggling.
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I am. That guy is the real menace!
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He looks like a singer in an English boy band.
I already distrust him deeply.
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Looks to me like a Wanna Bieber.
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I like that!
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Biracial offspring of a White parent interjection here;
My mom’s awareness of my own struggles as a Black person in this country does not negate any of my experiences, and she rarely ever tries to speak on my behalf, or to hold me up as an example of how much “she gets it.”
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Well, I stand corrected. But differentiate from Scandinavians and Germans? Where do you think most of the English come from? Personally I’m mainly Scandi-Germanic-Dutch-Huguenot for starters. The myth of the “Anglo-Saxon race” is one I find personally offensive. But I realise nobody much is going to agree.
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The people who care about these things would find it offensive that the Germans or Swedes or XYZ aren’t as different from them as space aliens.
The rest of us realize that the little lines on the map are temporary, and never meant much of anything anyway.
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I wasn’t sure if I liked it at first but it sure did grow on me. Loved the multi-generational leaps.
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Lets please keep this a discussion about the article and the issues surrounding it, and especially not about specific users parenting choices (which are very likely offtopic anyway - go start a parenting thread!)
Thanks.
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Yes, this is a cultural thing. Over here if someone starts going on about Anglo-Saxons you know you’re looking at a member of a Far Right political grouping.
But then I look at the US and see people using terms like “bi-racial” or “mixed race”. When are we going to get over that? There’s currently one human race. How do you start to eliminate racism (the belief that there are different races with different characteristics that can be identified by such factors as skin colour) when you persist in treating it as a real thing?
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Because it’s not just about eliminating racism, no matter how laudable that goal. It’s about people surviving in this very racist world. Asking those who are a member of an oppressed class, such as the minority “races” in Western society, whose membership is mostly policed from the outside*, to be the main carriers of the burden of building this future utopia is, at the very least, kind of rude.
* For example, while i can quite easily pass for white and not have anti-latin@ idiocy affect me directly, this young lady will be classified by most people that she comes across as black.
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