lolgaxe wrote:
Mommy is more reactive, and Daddy wants to be proactive when it comes to dealing with our daughter.
I wanted to get a chimpanzee fetus in a jar and explain to my daughter that she could have been aborted like her older brother, and that it isn't too late if she misbehaves.
omg that's terrible! Hysterical, but terrible. I don't blame your wife for not letting you do that. =x
I seem to have a knack with kids. I've only had one issue with a child ever, and he was a major handful. I worked at a day care center briefly a couple years ago, and he was kindergarten aged and tried to tell me that he didn't have to do what I told him. What was funny was that a couple of the other kids told him off despite me only having been there a couple days. =x I also mentored a third grade girl my senior year in high school. I don't know why they assigned me to her specifically, but she was one of the worst cases they had in the program. She was violent, had a temper, and had a lot of issues at home. She loved me to bits though, because I never raised my voice to her or treated her like she was inferior to me. One time she yelled at me for something, and I looked at her and calmly said that I didn't appreciate her treating me that way. Her expression was confused and guilty, and she quietly said "Sorry." and went back to what she was doing.
The way I treat kids is that they're just mini adults. I don't talk down to them and I don't treat them any differently than I would an adult. Other than my language and pervy jokes of course. =x Kids really appreciate that. They don't like being treated like they're stupid just because they're younger and smaller than you.