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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools (really bedtimes)
Message-ID: <461@scirtp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 16:38:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 16:38:49 1985
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> In article <413@scirtp.UUCP>, todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones) writes:
> > >     One question:  What are the reasons people have for setting specific
> > > bedtimes for their children?  How about curfews? (I never had one either)
> 
> > My wife and I love our children (1 &4) dearly and cherish the time
> > spent with them throughout the day. 
> > 
> > However, after 8:30 or so, My wife and I have our time together.
> 
> I think that that reason for sending kids together is a loser, first
> because they can sense that they're being gotten rid of, 

My son understands about time spent alone with someone you love.
It is also reassuring in these days of alarmingly high divorce
rates, for a child to know his parents want time alone.
He likes to be alone with his sister, or with me, or with his
Mom. He knows this doesn't diminish love or insult those excluded,
it is just a nice time for those involved. No big rejection trip.

> and second because you can't do it with a slightly older kid.

true, but older kids don't require the constant monitoring
and care that younger children do. When my wife and/or I spend
all Saturday cleaning up messes and chasing our 1 year-old,
time spent alone is desperately needed.

> A better solution, in our household, is to get some adult time
> together by getting up earlier.

Our one year old gets up at 6:00 a.m. I, for one, do not
enjoy waking up at 5:00 a.m. and when I do, I am not particularly
sociable or romantic.

todd jones


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