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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Because it's worked for 100,000 years, before Dr Spock.
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But 100,000 years ago isn't today. Might is no longer right in a society when you don't have to physically fight to get ahead. If you bring children up to believe the one who gives the hardest wallop gets the best food, the best women and the best life, I don't think you're really preparing them for 21st century society. Or at least not polite society. FFS, I sound like Jane fucking Austen.
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
If you squirted him with a water pistol he would.  |
He bloody would too.
As it is I cuff him and hiss at him when he's out of line.
He learns nothing from my liberal moralising, it just makes me feel better when I say things like, "OW! That hurt! You bad boy!" Although it is mostly followed by, "You do that again you little monster, I'll whack you on the head with a shovel and bury you in the garden" rather than "I'm sure you didn't mean it, and I still love you."
As I say, that's the benefit of having cats rather than kids
