lolSmitty-48 wrote: Oh yeah sure, she's home with them all day, soaking up the heat as Maggie Thatcher, then you get to come home and be the Good Doctor Freud
"Poor little felwas, show Doctor on the doll where the bad lady whupped yeas."
You ain't foolin me, Doc. Your passive voice gives it away, you talk about it like you're some sort of third party observer.
Smitty always keeping his eye on Doc Bolshie...
Truth is I was raised by liberal parents who had no real expectations on me...
My mom slaved away... I was the golden boy.
No idea how to do even the most basic chores by the time I left home.
Learned what I learned from my roommates in medschool.
My wife was raised by authoritarian parents.
Nothing was done for her.
She was expected to be out of the house and fully self sufficient by the time she was done high school.
We come from opposite backgrounds, but our parenting styles overlapped when it came to liberal parenting values.
The difference is that kids are a lot like me and not at all like her.
So the injustice factor is a lot higher on her end when they don't toe the line.
Truth is they could use some more discipline.
I'm happy to lay down some law... but it's hypocritical coming from me. I wasn't raised that way.
Still I'm entitled enough to have no problem with that.
On the other hand it breaks her heart to be hard on the precious little things.
And yet it's fundamentally unfair for her to always be slaving and ordered around by her kids just like she was by her parents.
So it's time to harden up on the precious little souls. It's good for them.
I probably could have used some of that myself. They'll be better off than I was.
I'm certainly backing her up.... but the real fire is in her belly.
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