We're originally from Portland, Oregon. My kids are 7 and 9 and I am approaching 40. I try my hardest and didn't withhold spanking. I have tried my best at parenting and still try hard. I can't fight every battle but do try to fight the important ones. My girls have chores but choose not to do them and I choose not to let them have money. If they want something, they have to earn it. I know monetary awards aren't the best route and it may not work for a while but IMO it helps me not spoil my girls. They have to earn the money and buy their own toys, I won't do it. I wasn't offended either. I wish living the simple life was simply a part of life, but unfortunately it just isn't.Bobby, I for one did not get offended by anything you have said. Seems to be a lot of parents these days are so worried about being called abusers that the kids run the parents lives. Or the extreme and the parents half kill the kids! I know there is good parents and kids out there but you notice the bad cases more.
I live with my niece in the house. She is 13 and a very good student. Not into anything bad but she doesn't lift a finger to help out around the little farm. No chores at all and no responsibility. Her room wouldn't make a good chicken coop! LOL It is all I can do to keep out of it.
Lived in Vancouver WA. for one year and the first time a child ran in front of me he stopped and said "Excuse me" then went on. That was not all. We found all the kids nice, helpful and polite. I turned to my husband and said. " What the heck gives with these kids here!"
But this is a chicken thread and enough about kids!
