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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I'm not arguing that point at all. That's part of parenting. But to allow a misbehaving child to have the perks regardless of what they do, they also feel 'entitled', even when misbehaving and do not know consequence. Talking, reasoning is all well and good but it's choices and consequence they remember and trying to merely 'reason' while still allowing priviledges(and anything in need of control is a privilege, whether it's soda or gameboy) doesn't teach them a thing except how to get to level 14 while Mommy and Daddy 'discuss' it with them.
In one ear, out the other....part of learning 'values' is learning what happens when the good choices are made and what will result when the bad ones are.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding. I meant it as an add on note to good information, not a correction.
Frankly, I don't like the idea of having much media time a day for children. I know of other parents who allow Nintendo, Sony and the Cartoon Network become parents for 6, 7, 8 hours a day. Those people are truely neglectful. I don't think it's healthy to have that much exposure to an alternate reality every day for a mind that's still working to understand the way the world works. We're going to have a whole generation that thinks the Earth's greatest threat is the Covenant, and the only way to stop them is to get a hold of Cortana and discover the true meaning of Halo.