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— 10stopphotography (@10stopphoto) March 16, 2014
At present I am supporting an 18 year old (in part: he is grumpily applying for a student loan so he partially funds his training) and a 16 year old. For me paterfamilias is a sensible system. Scripture does not see children as innocent cherubs that we ruin, but fallen `little people who need training. This fits with my undemocratic ideas of parenting.
Proverbs 22:5 -7, 15Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards himself will be far from them. Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it. The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him
If the foolish and unwise members of the family outnumber the prudent and wise members of the family, democracy will lead to foolish and unwise governance of your family. If the foolish and unwise members of a society outnumber the prudent and wise members of a society, democracy will lead to foolish and unwise governance of that society. And that isn’t even getting into whether or not prudent and wise people will make wise decisions under democracy, which is a completely separate issue. Of course, there is also the little matter of the unelected bureaucracy that really governs us – both our country and our families – here in our pretend democracy…
I need to start saying this over and over. We are not of this kingdom. We are not of this republic. It does not matter if you are in a Commonwealth Nation with a Queen (may she continue to reign long), country with an elected King called a President, or a country with an appointed president and a parliamentary republic. Or a dictatorship. We are of the kingdom of God, and it is ruled by a monarch, whose name is Jesus, and he is far wiser than the wisest and best of us. We need to hold our nation like we hold our property. Lightly. So any talk of democracy in the family is a nonsense.
@AShadowedKnight …free to be “who they are” When everything is a free-for-all we are free of consequences, responsibility @SunshineMarySSM
— Margery (The Woman) (@thewomanmargery) March 16, 2014
@thewomanmargery @AShadowedKnight …their parents suffer from excessive empathy. They don’t correct and guide their children with limits..
— Sunshine Mary (@SunshineMarySSM) March 16, 2014
Pushed too far, and there are consequences. Because the children have been raised feral, and when adults do not depart from that path.
Pets are the new children. Dating is the new marriage. Diet is the new religion. Careers are the new path to salvation.
— Margery (The Woman) (@thewomanmargery) March 15, 2014
Be human, not a cat.
“[…]their parents suffer from excessive empathy. They don’t correct and guide their children with limits..”
…Um, WHAT?
High empathy doesn’t automatically make people bad parents. People with high empathy still have common sense (hence, why I’ve never tried reasoning with a toddler). & If anything, the exact opposite – low empathy – is what leads to poorly behaved feral children (and adults). For example, Reactive Attachment Disorder. Psychopaths locked up in prison. Career Politicians. Long story short, lack of empathy is not a good thing.
Empathy and Altruism (stuff Jesus seemed to like to talk about) are pretty much the only things separating human behavior from feral animals.