i am far from convinced of the existence of enormous wisdom supposedly gained just by hanging around for a few extra trips around the sunreasonvemotion wrote:I rest my case.17
plenty of adults have no money management skills or self control or even basic common sense
plenty are total douchebags
plenty cannot learn from experience - i mean how many adults mistakenly believe that corporal punishment is a good idea - lots - despite no evidence at all to support their view
plenty have no insight into their own behaviour
going back to corporal punishment
plenty of adults are convinced they never apply it when they are angry
in actual fact 100% of instance of corporal punishment are a knee-jerk angry response
here is the interesting thing - and funny too - i had adults who told me that one of the few things they learned in their life is that the whole supposed wisdom gained with age is a load of horseshit
heck there are adults here who say that if their daughter would get pregnant they would kick her out of the house - there are plenty of adults who have no clue and are total douchebags
the harm of hard core drugs is overstatedhard core drugs
dont forget that most information about hard core drugs comes to us from the same people who said that iraq has chemicals weapons
for a while i was hanging out with a girl who was 'trouble'If children's parents are interested in them and keep tabs on their friends and where they go, most will pass through teenage years, relatively unscathed. They may whine and complain about a parent's "interference" but it is necessary to make sure they are safe. Especially females.
to my surprise my parents always made her feel welcome at our house
only recently did i figure out why - if she was at our house they knew where both of us were and what we were doing - they even ignored minor pilfering of the liquor cabinet as long as it was not taken out of the house