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06.23.08, 18:31 PM General Topics
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I'm really getting sick of ds' friends (6 yo). I sound like an old fogey saying it, but they're utterly disrespectful. I'm starting to think this is a yuppie cultural thing... upper-middle-class parents today value intelligence/achievement over respecting elders and other people, and even see backtalk/disrespect as "funny" or a sign of independent thinking. [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:31 PM Flag
 

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Interesting, can you give some examples? [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:32 PM Flag
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You may be lucky enough to have a well-behaved, respectful 6yo, but all the 6yo boys I know go through this irritating, back-talk, smart-ass stage. [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:33 PM Flag
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I don't think it's totally luck. I think it partly is--but I see so many parents whose reaction to this behavior is to throw up their hands, as if to say, "What can I do?" [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:36 PM Flag
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mine just heard the word "dickweed" somewhere and it's a bitch purging it from the vocab [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:38 PM Flag
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i am SO GLAD I am not alone. [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:43 PM Flag
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not at all. My husband - dickweeed I like to call him - and I are totally freaked by trying to be calm and steady, but neither of us grew up where this was OK. It's just that boys are a diff species. [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:44 PM Flag
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np: So what do you do? [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:46 PM Flag
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It's time out and conversation about it... basic stuff... [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.23.08, 06:50 PM Flag
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