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Old 11-08-2011, 19:18   #39
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Would you shop your kids

When we were very young, my brother took fourpence from my mothers purse......we hadn't much money anyway, but my mother was determined that he would never do such a thing again......she put his coat on and marched him down to the police station.....he skriked all the way there....she told the desk sergeant what he had done and he was locked up in the cells for a couple of hours...he was read the riot act from a very large stern policeman before he was allowed home.

This was how we were taught about the consequences of our actions...the lessons were live...and they lived with us.

I have only one daughter, but I parented her in the way that I was parented.......Strictly, and with boundaries. She knew who was in charge........ME!
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