posted by Pistol Pete
ALL I CAN SAY IS,’WOW’.I LISTENED TO OBIE’S PRESSER ON THE RADIO YESTERDAY AND I COULD SENSE HE WAS GETTING PISSED.HIS WHOLE LIFE,THINGS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO HIM.NOBODY’S EVER TOLD HIM ‘NO.’
WE FINALLY HAVE SOME REPUBLICANS WITH THE BALLS TO STAND UP TO THIS BUFFOON.I’M CONVINCED BOEHNER WAS READY TO CAVE,BUT CANTOR MUST HAVE CONVINCED HIM DOING SO WOULD COST HIM HIS SPEAKERSHIP.WHATEVER IT WAS,ITS TIME TO CALL HIS BLUFF.
BIDEN FREAKS IN DEFICIT MEETING: ‘C’MON,MAN,LETS GET REAL.’
HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP SCHOOLS THE ANDROGYNOUS CANDY CROWLEY;ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING
VIDEO AT LINK
IF VOTERS APPRECIATED THEIR COUNTRY,WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT PRESIDENT
LESS REGULATION=MORE HIRING
Pretty basic,unless you’re a Marxist
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/577933/201107111858/Less-Regulation-More-Hiring.htm
RUSH:BOEHNER SHOULD TELL OBAMA ‘CALL ME WHEN YOU’RE READY TO TALK CUTTING SPENDING,NOT RAISING TAXES.’
Then he should go golfing
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071111/content/01125109.guest.html
PUBLIC IS NOT PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION
Oh,but we are;
RECALL ELECTION SEASON BEGINS TODAY
There are 6 phony democrats running against 6 real ones.A change of just 3 seats could flip the balance of power in Wisconsin.Read about it here.
http://www.cbs58.com/index.php?aid=18148
MICHELLE OBAMA VISITS SHAKE SHACK FOR 1,550 CALORIE SNACK
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/11/michelle-obama-visits-shake-shack/
DEMOCRATS SHOULD KNOW JIM CROW,THEY CREATED HIM
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44754
VIDEO:MAJOR GARRETT TELLS CHRIS MATTHEWS WHY GOP CAN’T VOTE FOR TAX HIKES
10 CHOICE QUOTES FROM OBAMA DEBT PRESSER
This is a must read
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/07/11/ten_choice_quotes_from_obamas_debt_presser
OBAMA:’PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS’ UNDERSTAND DEBT CRISIS BETTER THAN THE PUBLIC
The hubris of this skinny,arrogant prick is breathtaking.FYI,Juggy,we understand more than you think.Nov.2012 can’t come fast enough.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-professional-politicians-understan
THE CLINTON’S,BUSH,NANCY REAGAN AND THE FIRST WOOKIE WILL ATTEND BETTY FORD’S FUNERAL
This is her funeral outfit
OBAMA’S JOURNEY THROUGH VANITY FAIR
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/07/11/obama%e2%80%99s-journey-through-vanity-fair/
‘THE VIEW’ LAUNCHES RACIAL RANT AGAINST MICHELE BACHMANN
She’s outpolling Romney-time to ramp up the attacls
ELLISON:BACHMANN WANTS WOMEN BAREFOOT,PREGNANT AND BACK IN THE KITCHEN
I’m guessing he’s not a supporter
MILA KUNIS TO ACCOMPANY MARINE TO CORPS BALL
It never hurts to ask
‘WE MUST RIP THE BAND-AID OFF,EAT OUR PEAS.’
Is all he saying is give peas a chance?IOTW did a graphic,but I thought of it first.
HUH?
OBAMA HAILS SOUTH SUDAN AS WORLD’S NEWEST NATION
Sudanese credit Christians and George W. Bush
Obama gives credit to W,right?Oh,get real.
You,ve heard of binge drinking and eating;how about binge blogging?Sorry,I just couldn’t stop.
polination.blog 
I don’t watch The View, but has Whoppi ever ranted on Michelle Obama and her war on fat people ?
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Can’t stand The View, so won’t watch the clip. However, I have seen Whoopi rant about high taxes and how the successful people get penalized for being successful. Unfortunately, Elizabeth H. wasn’t sharp enough to show her how that was a conservative viewpoint.
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Whoppi and Joy are the alpha dogs on that panel, and you know they hate Elizabeth because she’s perky and attractive….and conservative. Since the Rosie wars, I don’t think Eliz has been as effective a spokeswoman for the rest of us.
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The tendency of Republicans to cave into Dem demands reminds me of parents who get worn out by bullying children.
The time to stop that is between 6 and 24 months, otherwise the kids learn they’re stronger than you and you’re stuck with ever-increasing temper tantrums until … I dunno, death?
My mother, bless her heart, taught us early on that you only had to hold a really firm line with #1. After that, the kids pass on the message that it ain’t worth it. That certainly held true with mine. We had a couple of protracted battles with Mama Buzz who figured out how to get out of her toddler car seat by herself.
I so clearly recall me and the Dearest white knuckling it to New York City as she screamed at the TOP of her lungs in the back seat, threw herself back and forth repeatedly … having learned during Battle Uno that if she actually got OUT of her car seat, the car stopped and she caught holy heck.
Dearest asked me, “What should we do?”
I said, “Keep driving. She’ll figure out eventually she’s getting nothing out of this but a headache.”
She stopped eventually, our nerves recovered eventually and it was totally worth it. That was the ONLY time we endured a tantrum of that proportion from any of them.
I’m thinking part of the problem is … we’ve been electing all these DADS to office. Dads are way more likely to cave in and give the kids what they want. Uncles are even worse.
Give me someone like Sarah Palin. We’ve all seen how SHE handles juvenile shenanigans! LOL Democrats would be no problem for her.
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When my boys were 3 and 4, approximately, they were told to clean up their room. They played. I told them they couldn’t eat until the room was done. Lunchtime came and went. Supper, too. They stayed in their room and played. All the next day, they repeated the process–play, play, play. AND the next. Finally, I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I said, in their hearing, that I was going out to make macaroni and cheese for supper. 1/2 hr. later, the room was clean. I knew they wouldn’t starve, and I knew the room wasn’t so messy it was beyond their ability to fix. I did NOT know how long the battle of wills would go on, fortunately, but having entered into a fray from which only one winner could emerge, I knew that it had to be me.
Then there was the time that the younger of the 2 boys wouldn’t get ready to leave. I was playing the piano for a musical play at the school and had a deadline. I finally told him I would take him exactly the way he was when it was time to go. He went out into the blustery autumn rain clad in his jockey briefs and a pair of socks. The socks got soaked immediately, and very stretched out. In order to walk, he had to fling the extra socks out in front of him at each step. If it hadn’t been for the embarrassment factor (my husband was a teacher at the school), it would have been even funnier than it was. I saw, part way through practice, that some kind person had given him a jacket to wear. I went over and took it off, letting him resume his native splendor. But you what? He never wasn’t ready to go on time again.
Republicans have caved so many times that nobody’s gonna believe they mean it, this time around, until they actually stand firm and don’t wobble. And they did it to themselves, by making empty threat after empty threat.
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I nominate Frankly for our next Speaker of the House!!
My brother told me he thought the secret to being a great parent was not being afraid to make a jack-ass of yourself in public. LOL
One time, I heard a mother of ten (half were kids adopted out of foster care) tell a fantastic story when I was still a young enough parent to benefit from it. One of her teen boys gave her a lot of lip, then scooted out of the house. She hollered to him to come back, but he didn’t, so she went after him … wearing only slacks and a bra! She hauled rude son back into the house in full view of at least one neighbor and, I suspect, said boy never tried that dodge again.
I never had to go out half nekkid, but I did send one kid to school with no lunch and another had to walk to school in the pouring rain. Oh wait. That was the same kid. Poor Mama Buzz. The first kid gets stuck with all the donkey work, trying out what the ‘rents will and will not tolerate! LOL
Like you FTN, I had warned her what would happen if she “forgot” her lunch or “accidentally” missed the bus again. Both had happened legitimately once and she got what she considered a reward. 2d grade – a cafeteria hot lunch. She had food allergies, so THAT wasn’t happening again. 10th grade – a ride to school. We’re one of the last stops on the route, so it’s not THAT far.
The second times … I suspected she was just being lazy. (She now freely admits it is her besetting sin.) I saw a pattern forming and put my big ol’ Mama Grizzly foot down. I got blow back on the first one when the school nurse called and told me what a Bad Mother I was for refusing to RACE down there with her lunch. I told her she could give the kid an apple and I’d feed her when she got home … IN THREE HOURS.
Our doctor backed me up, so :-P“`. One of the very first things we were told when our kids were diagnosed with food allergies was, “Don’t let them use this to manipulate you.” It didn’t take more than one warning.
I’d visited a home once where a six year with asthma absolutely RULED. Cross him and he’d wheeze. Bingo. He got his own way. Our doctor said kids like that learn to wheeze minus any allergen. It becomes a conditioned response. An actual asthma attack brought on by not getting what they want. Yoiks.
Being forewarned, when my kids reacted, I’d just haul them up on to the kitchen counter and slap a needle into ’em. One good side effect … none of them are phobic about shots LOL.
I was visiting with relatives who more or less didn’t believe our kids had food allergies at this point. One of the kids started reacting, so I hauled her onto the counter for an injection, all the while talking with the relatives. The kid went from mega sick to just fine and ready to play in a matter of about 30 seconds, plus 180 degree attitude adjustment for the relatives all in one swell foop. Ha!
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Ever heard of the course Parenting with Love and Logic? You two could have co-written it! It’s all about natural consequences. My oldest is only 3, but we’ve been able to incorporate some of it. She got into the habit of being difficult when it was time to get ready for bed i.e. running away, not letting me put on her diaper. I finally found a consequence that works. No story time if she doesn’t behave. She forgets every once in awhile but usually all I have to do is mention that she’ll lose her story time and she shapes up. Occassionally we lose the story time and then she’s REALLY good for at least a couple of weeks!! Of course, I hate it almost as much as she does when we don’t get to read together, but it’s the only natural consequence I could think of for our before bed time routine.
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Let me rephrase – it’s not the only consequence I could think of, it’s the one I found that worked! 😀
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Most of my mentors were parents I admired. It’s the one piece of parenting advice I give young people. We used to live in villages with multi-generational households. Girls had moms and grandmoms to mentor them. Now, not so much. But “liberated women” think it’s shameful to ask for help. I just tell them, Parenting is HARD. Find someone whose kids you like and adopt her as your Mommy Mentor.
The one in-print parenting person I remember really respecting was a columnist our paper carried. I think she’s the one that taught me about using natural consequences.
My mom taught me about avoiding yes/no choices in favor of either/or choices. Wrong: Are you ready for your bath? Right: Do you want to take a bath or a shower? or Do you want your bath before or after your 1/2 hour of t.v.?
Somewhere someone said to me, “Never let food or toileting become a power struggle. Kids control both so you’ll always lose.” Natural consequences and either/or help deal with those issues without the power struggle.
But the idea of avoiding “I’m bigger than you are, because I said so” type power struggles got me pondering. I realized I wanted two outcomes from my parenting experience.
One, responsible adult children.
Two, adult children who admired, respected and ENJOYED me.
Sometimes it’s necessary to just play the power card and parents should be willing to be unpopular when it’s what is best for the child’s development. After all, we’re all about raising ADULTS, right? It’s like my sister, the teacher, said. “It’s not my job to be their friend. It’s my job to be their teacher.”
Ditto parenting. If keeping a kid happy in the short run means having a horrible adult on the loose later on … oh wait, we’ve seen how that works out. They’re running the Democratic party. Sheesh, anyone who has watched Willy Wonka knows that!
But every time we play the power card, we set up another opportunity for resentment. There’s a lot of natural affection from the baby time to tide us through, but it isn’t bottomless. I figured any time I could find a work around to avoid power plays, I was increasing my chances of having grown kids who like me.
Besides, the “I’m bigger than you are” thing runs out of steam long before they’re out of the house and I really wanted us to survive the teen years without some of the horrors I saw happening to other parents with out-of-control kids.
One lady I knew was literally afraid of her teen son. Another was not so much fearful of what the son would do to her as she was of what he’d do to the house when she was gone. She had to hire a sitter when she went out to protect the HOUSE.
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My kids (and their kids after them) learned VERY early on that (a) I’d never threaten something I wouldn’t carry out, and (b) if you embarrass me in public, I’m going to embarrass you right back. I was a VERY naughty child in the missionary community, saving my most distinguishing misbehaviors for public consumption. Then I had 4 kids, and I determined that they would not do to me what I’d done to my parents. I know, I know–I deserved to get it back, but I DIDN’T FEEL LIKE IT, OK?
Now my kids were generally naughty at home, and very cute and well-behaved in public…which gave me a maternal reputation in the church and school community that I certainly did not deserve. But, not knowing that this is what they would do, I had already begun preemptive strikes from the very beginning, and they knew when I said “If you do THAT, I’ll do THIS!”, exactly what was coming down the pike. I once intimidated a whole 2 rows of rowdy little boys misbehaving at the Vacation Bible School program, just by walking up to my own sons and telling them quietly what would happen to them if I had to embarrass myself with a walk down the aisle again to make them stop being naughty. It is one of my most cherished life memories.
They knew I was never afraid of observers in dealing out consequences. I catch my grandkids a lot, too. A common complaint is, “Noah, why did you have to be such a naughty little girl?” “I don’t know kids–you’re just lucky, I guess!” 😎
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Oh poo. That was supposed to be a tongue-out spitty face, not a smile! Anyone know where the codes are for these things?
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codes? I just use the typey things like colon right parenthesis for smiley face or colon capital P for tongue. I am very tech challenged 😛
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Unfortunately, that is the WP tongue-out face. It’s not very good, I know. For a chart of smilies available on WP, go here… http://en.support.wordpress.com/smilies/
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Rose! Thank you! I put that in my PN bookmarks place, along with the link to relog in since I never can remember the URL when they decide to cancel my auto log in. (The noive.) From now on, my faces will be 😮 … I wish we could see if these were right before hitting Post Comment.
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As far as tricks to parenting, a sense of humor helps too.
My husband and I just celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversay and when people ask, how did you stay married so long ? I deadpan, neither one of us wanted custody of the children and both of us wanted the dogs 😀
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Jody Miller !
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ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL oh Frankly, you are FRANKLY HYSTERICAL.
Denise … “neither one of us wanted custody of the children and both of us wanted the dogs” … I gotta remember that one! 😀 We’re working on 32 years. Young sprouts yet. Nobody’s asked us how we stayed together this long. Yet. But I’ll be ready!
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