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[ailbhe]

"Daddy om Nea go a baff. Clothes off. NO! DADDY clothes off TOO! Nea wash a Daddy's back."

Daddy graciously accepted her generous invitation.

Comments

[nitoda]

Teenagers brought up to respect themselves and make independent decisions based on taking responsibility for their own actions can be a real joy ... just sayin' ;-))

"can be a real joy..."

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

"...to watch other parents suffer..."

- no? [a]

*g*

[a] - you didn't specify their having been brought up to respect others...[b]
[b] - but probably presumed it [c]
[c] - and safely so, i believe, so far as 'nea's concerned

Re: "can be a real joy..."

[nitoda]

I actually believe it to be impossible to bring children up to respect themselves without their learning on the way to respect others. After all, in teaching them to respect themselves, the parents must be modelling respect for others, namely the children themselves. N'est-ce-pas? ;-)

Re: "can be a real joy..."

[ailbhe]

I wuz gonna say...

A.
This above all: to thine own self be true, and thus it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Oh, ah, yeah. We occasionally look at each other and go "So whose idea was it to raise them with all this self-confidence anyway?"

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, absolutely. Not always the easiest (step- in my case so far) parenting job, but lots of joy in it.