Raising a kid

[Griff]

Please be careful with that lingo Warch, yer gonna give me a flashback. ;)

Seriously though, its about respect. If you respect kids, they'll respect you and each other. You'd be suprised how many kids have noone giving their ideas a respectful hearing, as a result they never get to or have to challenge the the crazy things that go through their heads. Not being able to think in a critical manner translates into many of the social ills of youth. I remember a girl I had in a study hall once, telling her friends how she was gonna be free of her parents by getting pregnant, going on welfare, and getting a trailer of her own, just like her sister. In freaking sane, its the kind of idea that only gets reinforced when you've got kids giving kids advice and none of their parents give a crap... At times like that its hard for an adult to speak up, you don't want to look like a complete idiot for buying the tale... but some kids do the crazy stuff they talk about, so you have to.