Lockit
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Maybe in somebodies world, children are not accountable for their actions, but in my world they are. Children are not excluded from being held accountable. Adults even more so because they are older, but because a child is a child, doesn't mean it is a free ride into adulthood and doesn't mean I get a free ride and an easy out either. So this acting like a child, treated like a child... doesn't make sense to me. They are not an adult yet, they are learning to be an adult and when some steps to adulthood are missed or done wrong... we have adults that aren't accountable or try not to be. Punishment doesn't always work. So acting like a child and treated like a child doesn't work for me. I learned when working with children, that if I treated them like an adult, I got better behavior. They felt respected and acted in ways to deserve that respect. I did it with large groups of children and my programs were integrated into other agencies. You treat an adult like a child and you are going to have some issues in my opinion. I don't wish to raise children; I raise adults. I don't want a child standing there when I am done and I am happy with the adults I raised to be adults. I corrected my children. There was one that needed punishment to get some things when he was young, but mostly I did my job and I relate that to similarities with submissive's. If I do my job (position in life) correctly, I don't have issues. I must know them... just as I needed to know my children. I must know how they learn, what works best with them and not treat them all the same. I must expect that they can learn and will do so under my leadership/parenting. It is up to me to find the way. It is not my job to expect things that cannot be or to project that they will do this or that without the facts about them personally to guide my expectations or projections. If I can't know them and what I am doing... I am going to mess up. I can mess up simply by being human... but, I am going to work damn hard not to have to say I am sorry and to get it right from the start. I'm sorry means... I missed something and I will hope not to miss it again. Anything less is unacceptable. Sometimes it isn't the child or submissive that is in the wrong or misbehaving, but the parent or dominant.
< Message edited by Lockit -- 3/4/2011 1:04:31 PM >
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