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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i live in PG but if I could afford to I wouldn't. I read over the other threads and many say to the same effect that was the only way to get a middle class life style in the area. My husband and I are content but my 12 year old son is having problems. Maybe he is a knuckle head but there are just so many other knuckle head kids in the malls & schools he is under the impression it isn't as serious of a deal as it is. He actually dumbs down his speech when away from the home. We lament not being able to afford a better area or private schools. The are some area with nicer houses for sure but much of the county has a few too many knuckle headed kids IMHO.[/quote]

Not to be mean, but ur child is a reflection of what is taught and enforced at home. I grew up in Landover, went to public schools my whole life and graduated from Duval. I never had any "pressure' to be a "knuckle head" and my parents would have never allowed it anyway. and never thought about "dumbing" down my speech....never had to.  I had tons of friends and none of us fit that stereotype or got mixed into a "bad crowd" I never understand that saying anyways. You are what you are taught and what u see[/quote]

So every bad kid has bad parents and every good kid has good ones?  Do you really think that peer pressure and environmental influences can't override and sabotage parenting. Not to be mean but "ur" not the brightest.[/quote]

Not if u follow the guidelines of "do what I do..not what I say". My parent never drank never smoked etc. neither do I even when around friends who did. Yes there is always peer pressure but if u teach ur kids to have their own mind then the peer pressure won't matter. Also kids gravitate towards the peers they most identify with. There aren't a bunch of knuckle heads running around pg ur kids r just deciding to hang with the few that are. U need to find out why. Because if u move elsewhere I assure u they will seek out the knuckle heads there as well[/quote]

20:57 here, just thought I would point out I that I am not the poster you think you're talking to. I just disagree with most of your overly simplistic assertions about being in absolute control of a child's destiny and also the numbers of knuckleheads locally too but that is another topic. If your premiss is true, would we be to take it that your parent(s) had exceptionally weak English skills and were shallow thinkers? That would be the case if a "child is a reflection of what is taught and enforced at home" was to be taken as an absolute.

You don't really have the tone of somebody who actually has kids, by regurgitating tired clichés you are really coming off as some barren old biddy who is not in touch with reality.
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NP.  What an ignorant post PP.  Was there a need to be so nasty?  If this the example who display to your children?  If so, you have no need to worry, for your children will be the knuckle heads if following you is an example.  [/quote]

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