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Originally Posted by brian1975
True, but what does it get you? A coronary heart attack? Higher stress levels? The satisfaction of swearing and screaming up a storm? The same sort of child behavior we were condemning about kids in restaurants?
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not at all.....
the ability to VENT is an important thing... it has to come out somewhere... keeping it in is problematic.
the ability to vent in a responsible and respectful manner is also important. It doesn't give me liberty to berate the parent or child, but I do have the right to sit and kvetch to Skogafoss how asinine someone is in dealing with their offspring. You don't complain about anything? Good for you. I used to not as well, but I've also learned that a good level of complaing about things can sometimes give me some extra focus as to what is truly bothering me about a subject, example: this one about bad kids and bad parents.
Which brings me to another point, I like to talk about broad subjects in colorful language, sometimes that means I may say curse words and to have to hold them back because some small 3 year old is present, well that's just a pain to me. Sure I can stop for a bit, but I would rather not. I can recall a certain dinner conversation that was cut short because someone started talking about suiced. Appropriate dinner conversation? for adults maybe but one of the parents shut down the conversation because he didn't want to have to explain to his kids the concept of suicide. When asked (not me) as to why? Answer? "Because I said so." And of course it was his house, his rules since he was the host.
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