Kids and the Internet

[piercehawkeye45]

The biggest flaw I see in your argument is that you seem to fail to see that even your behavior will result in consequences. Parenting is a two way street. Your behavior will affect their behavior which will affect yours which goes back and forth.

I am NOT telling you how to raise your kids but I have seen enough to know what MAY happen. If you have your kids on too short of a leash, they will be more likely to rebel or not know what to do when they are out of the house. If you don't have a leash the same thing will happen. My expierences have favored the middle ground for teenagers.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

The biggest flaw I see in your argument is that you seem to fail to see that even your behavior will result in consequences. Parenting is a two way street. Your behavior will affect their behavior which will affect yours which goes back and forth.

I am NOT telling you how to raise your kids but I have seen enough to know what MAY happen. If you have your kids on too short of a leash, they will be more likely to rebel or not know what to do when they are out of the house. If you don't have a leash the same thing will happen. My expierences have favored the middle ground for teenagers.

Well the mistake in your argument is that you don't understand that the I am trying to have consequence in their behavior. That is what parenting is all about.

The second mistake is that you have no idea what kind of "leash" we have our kids on. There has never been a discussion to date of anything outside of internet monitoring. Again, you like most of the people on here imagine something else.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Well the mistake in your argument is that you don't understand that the I am trying to have consequence in their behavior. That is what parenting is all about.

The second mistake is that you have no idea what kind of "leash" we have our kids on. There has never been a discussion to date of anything outside of internet monitoring. Again, you like most of the people on here imagine something else.

I wasn't trying to accuse of anything but that is what I got from your posts. You attacked Ibram without knowing anything about him so of course I will think that it seems you only see a one way street. I am sorry if I was wrong but that is how you came off whether my assumption was wrong or right.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

I wasn't trying to accuse of anything but that is what I got from your posts. You attacked Ibram without knowing anything about him so of course I will think that it seems you only see a one way street. I am sorry if I was wrong but that is how you came off whether my assumption was wrong or right.

I think he made the same mistake. The subject has never veered from Kids and the Internet. How I have raised my kids is not the issue. Somehow the subject, as most in any thread morphed. It morphed to parenting and the role and responsibilities of the parent, with kids and the internet. How I have raised the kids has never once come up in any of these discussions except in the context of the internet. Assumptions have been made, most likely by myself as well. I should not have done so.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

If you don't have a leash the same thing will happen. My expierences have favored the middle ground for teenagers.

Right. My wife's father use to call this the box theory. Good behavior, larger box. Poor behavior, smaller box. It actually works very well, rewarding good behavior, and punishing bad behavior. Pretty simple actually.