Anonymous wrote:Not blindly, no. But I expect them to comply when I make reasonable requests and to discuss it calmly and respectfully if they disagree.

This. This also varies tremendously by age of kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Children should be allowed to experiment with boundaries and learn how to make their own decisions. “No” circumvents that learning process and substitutes emotional growth with fear. Fear doesn’t make well-adjusted emotionally mature adults.

MAGAs are the sort of people who grew up obeying their parents, chiefly out of fear. You see how they turned out. Is that what you want for your own children? Because that is what you’ll get if you demand your children obey you. They’ll become MAGAs.

This is extreme and in the extreme stupid. Children need to experiment for sure but they also lack the basic biological capability for sound decisions making. Hence, development involves a give and take between rule following and self discovery.

Also, strangely in your view, self identified progressives have much more mental illness, anxiety and depression. All that freedom independent of developmental reality is probably what messed them up.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Children should be allowed to experiment with boundaries and learn how to make their own decisions. “No” circumvents that learning process and substitutes emotional growth with fear. Fear doesn’t make well-adjusted emotionally mature adults.

MAGAs are the sort of people who grew up obeying their parents, chiefly out of fear. You see how they turned out. Is that what you want for your own children? Because that is what you’ll get if you demand your children obey you. They’ll become MAGAs.

This is extreme and in the extreme stupid. Children need to experiment for sure but they also lack the basic biological capability for sound decisions making. Hence, development involves a give and take between rule following and self discovery.

Also, strangely in your view, self identified progressives have much more mental illness, anxiety and depression. All that freedom independent of developmental reality is probably what messed them up.

Anonymous wrote:Children should be allowed to experiment with boundaries and learn how to make their own decisions. “No” circumvents that learning process and substitutes emotional growth with fear. Fear doesn’t make well-adjusted emotionally mature adults.

MAGAs are the sort of people who grew up obeying their parents, chiefly out of fear. You see how they turned out. Is that what you want for your own children? Because that is what you’ll get if you demand your children obey you. They’ll become MAGAs.

Such drivel. I'm not a MAGA, but children should be taught by example to love, respect, and obey their parents. We see all the misbehaving kids who are taught otherwise.

Anonymous wrote:Yes I do, and no it's not. It's a matter of safety.

+1 Safety and respect for adults

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Anonymous wrote:I used to try to get them to obey me, but then I realized they have free will and you can't make people do anything.

Of course, you can and should. It's your job as a parent.

My kid would bathe 1/month if I didn't make him.

My kid is neurodivergent. So what applies to most doesn't apply to everyone. How exactly do you "make" your kid bathe? Nagging, convincing, or persuading is one thing, but I don't think you're stripping your kid down and physically carrying him into the shower. Some things can slide and they have to learn natural consequences by their poor choices.

I don’t really expect them to obey. I expect them to make good decisions, be safe, be kind, work hard, be a good community member, be respectful,make healthy decisions. I don’t expect obedience.

Anonymous wrote:Children should be allowed to experiment with boundaries and learn how to make their own decisions. “No” circumvents that learning process and substitutes emotional growth with fear. Fear doesn’t make well-adjusted emotionally mature adults.

MAGAs are the sort of people who grew up obeying their parents, chiefly out of fear. You see how they turned out. Is that what you want for your own children? Because that is what you’ll get if you demand your children obey you. They’ll become MAGAs.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise) —Ephesians 6:2

THIS is what MAGAs teach their children, not to push boundaries by trying drugs or engage in alternative, perverted sexual behavior.

Some boundaries should not be crossed, such as corrupting oneself in a transgender lifestyle.

Children who won’t obey their parents won’t obey God either, producing lawless, Godless people.

I would rather my children be MAGA (they are) than be Democrats who can’t define what a woman is: “It’s your MAMA” —Pastor Gino Jennings.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.— Proverbs 23:13

The majority of Democrats are going to hell because their parents let their children do whatever they wanted to do.

Children should be allowed to experiment with boundaries and learn how to make their own decisions. “No” circumvents that learning process and substitutes emotional growth with fear. Fear doesn’t make well-adjusted emotionally mature adults.

MAGAs are the sort of people who grew up obeying their parents, chiefly out of fear. You see how they turned out. Is that what you want for your own children? Because that is what you’ll get if you demand your children obey you. They’ll become MAGAs.