Reply #55: Funny, Erika!

[Neil Lisst]

:D

What has become of "liberal" thinking?!?

I think it comes down to this difference:

There seem to be two kinds of people when it comes to raising kids:

1. those who like to let kids be kids, let them be who they want to be, let them decide how to dress, as long as they BEHAVE properly, and let them have a more free rein in their own lives.

and

2. those who treat them like animals that have to be trained and restrained and comformed to the adult's specifications.

My kids are grown, and they're great. I raised them by giving them freedom and choices, not by hooking them up to my yoke. They have individuality and personality, and no school system my kids went to was going to have that quasi-prison atmosphere. I wouldn't do that to them.