Julia Altshuler > wrote in news:jS8Rc.263140
$XM6.91190@attbi_s53:

> raymond wrote:
>
>> It's useless to try to *ask* a nine-year-old to do anything. You
>> *tell* a nine-year-old to finish the plate.
>
>
> This speaks volumes about the way you relate to people, not just
> children. What a sad situation where 9 year olds are so unhappy with
> their own parents that they won't do anything the parents say unless
> coerced. I imagine it is the same way with your co-workers, employees,
> and wife. Notice I didn't say friends. Do you have any? How do you
> get them to eat at your home unless you tell them to finish what's on
> their plate?
>
>
> In my world, kids are essentially cooperative. There are times now and
> then when they might get yelled at, have a privilege removed, be on the
> receiving end of a lecture or be put in a time out, but those times are
> short lived and rare. The rest of the time, no orders are given, and
> everyone cooperates with everyone else in a spirit of love and fun.

Gee, where do you live, Lia? Over the Rainbow? <G>

I think most folks are somewhere inbetween Raymond and you.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.