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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: air-horns in restaurants
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 13:20:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 13:20:30 1985
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By the time I had read various earlier postings on this subject my blood was 
near boiling point, but L S Chabot's posting reduced the temperature somewhat.
Let's not have any screaming at LSC! (That's an in joke that only 3/4 of net
readers will understand.)

Weren't we ever children ourselves? Didn't a great and good society provide us
with an education and put us in a position to enjoy the benefits of computer
networks now? So how about a little sympathy for the folks who have chosen 
to endure what our parents had to endure? Sure, it's a strain to eat next
to a noisy child, but think of the poor parents: they get it all the time.
Nobody should complain about children unless they were never one themselves.

Not to seem one-sided, though, there has been a shift in parental attitudes
towards discipline. My 3 year old niece gets away with things (screaming in
restaurants probably among them) that my brother and I would have got
slapped down for (not literally except as a last resort) in a hurry, and
this has led to some intergenerational friction in our family. Did those
of us who grew up in the 60s lose the will to impose discipline on young
people?