What do you let kids get away with?

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The.Black.Templar

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So I see this story going round that some kids over the weekend while playing decided to remove/break the wipers from all the vehicles in the parking area....and everybody seems to just OK? Infact after the story goes round others come out and confess that their kids are used to scratching alphabets on their cars every now and then using nails or such....

So what do you guys let kids, either yours or your neighbours, get away with?
 
Middle class tubabas and tumummys. My niece always used to cry whenever she lost in a game. We suggested nobody should baby her. Akasirike, alie, azoee. These days she always asks to go again. Very smart kid.
 
The.Black.Templar said:
One vehicle would be a mistake...but all the vehicles? Mtoto umleavyo ndivyo akuavyo
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When kids make mistakes and you reprimand them it is a more sticky lesson than when you just preach . In any case no amount of preaching can cover all the 1001 things a bunch of bored kids can get up to. when these things happen you punsh/reprimand with understanding and love.
 
The.Black.Templar said:
So I see this story going round that some kids over the weekend while playing decided to remove/break the wipers from all the vehicles in the parking area....and everybody seems to just OK? Infact after the story goes round others come out and confess that their kids are used to scratching alphabets on their cars every now and then using nails or such....

So what do you guys let kids, either yours or your neighbours, get away with?
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The parents must be responsible, any truancy from kids must not go unpunished !
 
Mwalimu-G said:
When kids make mistakes and you reprimand them it is a more sticky lesson than when you just preach . In any case no amount of preaching can cover all the 1001 things a bunch of bored kids can get up to. when these things happen you punsh/reprimand with understanding and love.
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May be I am not understanding your point. As the Blank Template has said, one car is a mistake. Two cars is not; that's truancy that needs to be punished and nipped in the bud. A three-year old kid in the home writing with stones on your car or on the wall is a teachable moment. But if that kid is five or six, that's vandalism that requires tough measures.

In my life, I've had the opportunity to 'bring up' over 10 children - brothers and sisters, and later daughters and sons. One thing I can say without any contradiction is that children are far more intelligent than we credit them for. If a two-year old realises that every time they cry, for example, he will be immediately attended to, he will cry more than 20 times a day. If he realises that crying for no reason will mean that nobody will attend to him, he'll only be crying when and absolutely when its necessary.

Yes, children make mistakes like we all do. But there's a difference between truancy and the growing up experience.
 
Insufferable kids huwa siezi entertain karibu na mimi... .I hate noisy kids ama wale hupenda kusumbua mtu ...sijui wakupandilie mara wakutoe kofia .....idk what i can do to a kid vandalizing my car....nampea ngoto ya mtu mzima in name of 'discipline'....
 
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