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In reply to the discussion: Adults that spoil kids aggravate me [View all]abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)During family gatherings. I loved listening to them. My mother also took me with her to her college art classes where I learned much about composition and design and life drawing starting at age four. She never put me on a pedestal but she also didn't separate me from adults as if it was best to keep children out of the way. Marie Montessori did much to show the best thing was to never talk down to kids or treat them differently.
Anyway love your rant. It really tickles me when people who don't have kids pass judgement on parents or give advice on how to raise kids. My forever dried up old cubie recently ranted on and on about how parents today are too permissive about what kids eat and how she would force her kids to eat vegetables by not giving them any food or drink until they ate the vegetables or starved to death. Good thing she never had any. And congratulations on recognizing that you are too controlling, impatient, judgemental and self centered to embark on motherhood.