An unsafe childhood

[craigwatanabe]

Re: An unsafe childhood

if mr. watanabe has six keeds, that means he's forever in parenting mode, even if he is addressing a thirty-something only brat like me.

I use Transactional Analysis all the time so if you act like a 30-year old brat I'll treat you like one.

But as an adult I try to communicate as one adult to another. And yes it's hard for me to escape the parental mode regardless that my oldest is 22-years old but has finally started to mature to a respectable person.

As for my kids none of them have had an unsafe childhood only because I taught them ocean safety, gun safety and common sense that if you're gonna play hard...then play safe.

And that's coming from the kid who learned about hot surfaces, sharp objects, and loose women the hard way.

[cynsaligia]

Re: An unsafe childhood

I use Transactional Analysis all the time so if you act like a 30-year old brat I'll treat you like one.

But as an adult I try to communicate as one adult to another. And yes it's hard for me to escape the parental mode regardless that my oldest is 22-years old but has finally started to mature to a respectable person.

As for my kids none of them have had an unsafe childhood only because I taught them ocean safety, gun safety and common sense that if you're gonna play hard...then play safe.

And that's coming from the kid who learned about hot surfaces, sharp objects, and loose women the hard way.

i've decided that i'll always be a brat...until i have spawn of my own. and imma raise them the way my mom raised me, bcs whether you agree with my vices (incl honking at errant drivers) or not, i think she did a damned fine job (overcautiousness aside).

of course, i learned about loose men the hard way, too. loose men, hard way, snarksnarksnark.

maybe that's bcs my father was absent...until i was ten. then he was deyed.

so on that point, i do envy your now-not-so-lil-ones, mr. watanabe.

[craigwatanabe]

Re: An unsafe childhood

i've decided that i'll always be a brat...until i have spawn of my own. and imma raise them the way my mom raised me, bcs whether you agree with my vices (incl honking at errant drivers) or not, i think she did a damned fine job (overcautiousness aside).

of course, i learned about loose men the hard way, too. loose men, hard way, snarksnarksnark.

maybe that's bcs my father was absent...until i was ten. then he was deyed.

so on that point, i do envy your now-not-so-lil-ones, mr. watanabe.

It's amazing how one matures when they have kids of their own. It's even more amazing when little things like morality play a bigger role in one's life when tasked with raising and molding the minds of a younger impressionable child.

Call me an old fart but hey that's what happens when you age, maturity kinda sneaks up on you and grabs you by the butt.