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[quote=Anonymous]I’m from a Catholic family of 9, and we grew up before screens were everywhere (we did have in TV in the family room!).  We certainly weren’t calm!  I think my brothers were pretty notorious pranksters in the neighborhood and I was the most soazzmatAzz hyper motor mouth that anyone had ever met.  (I guess my sisters were pretty calm.). So I don’t think big families, or no screens, is some magic solution.

My guess is that it’s a community with strong community norms and a fair amount of shame if you break those norms.  So if you are the orthodox mom with the rambunctious kids, you are not taking them out to the zoo on Sunday and instead are home quietly crying into your pillow.  And/or you guilt your kids into complying with community norms expectations.  My parents were very strict bout a lot of things and we did all the chores and the parentification that people complain about etc etc … but I don’t think they every made any of feel bad for being the type of people that marched to the beat of their own drummer.  I think they felt like the smarter the kid, the more headache they were likely to be.  (Although again my sister who is a perfect angel and always was is also a super genius).

I’m also a little amazed by the Catholic PP talking about a 90 minute mass.  Every priest I’ve ever met (except one) seems to have an internal body clock that enables them to end the homily in time for mass to end between 59 and 63 minutes, or less if it’s there’s a football game.    [/quote]

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