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<blockquote data-quote="Abbey" data-source="post: 36119" data-attributes="member: 179"><p>Ha! Sue...</p><p></p><p>On a good day we'd have 3 channels. We didn't get a TV until I was in my teens...and it was my dad's TV. We didn't dare touch it.</p><p></p><p>If you got in trouble at school, going home was 10X worse. That was not tolerated at all. I have picked more than one willow switch from our tree to be disciplined. You had better not pick a thin one. If you did, dad would opt for the belt instead.</p><p></p><p>Was this a good way to be brought up? In retrospect, I think so. I had a healthy respect/fear of my father. It kept me on the straight and narrow. It took many years/kids to realize this.</p><p></p><p>I also agree with the over-stimulation of kids these days. It's just too much. Soccer after school, violin lessons, cell phones, texting, computers, video games...yadda, yadda. When they don't have that stimulation they don't have any idea what to do. The classic story I tell my students is how we used to play the dictionary game. Honest. (Ok, I'm a nerd.) We'd all grab a dictionary and see who could find an obscure word the fastest. That's life in South Dakota. :smile:</p><p></p><p>I don't know how to get back to that world anymore. I went home a year ago and the small town I grew up in is just a miniature version of a big city now. It was sad to see that. I don't know where you can live anymore without these problems. If someone knows...let me know. I'll be leaving Vegas in a year.</p><p></p><p>Abbey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abbey, post: 36119, member: 179"] Ha! Sue... On a good day we'd have 3 channels. We didn't get a TV until I was in my teens...and it was my dad's TV. We didn't dare touch it. If you got in trouble at school, going home was 10X worse. That was not tolerated at all. I have picked more than one willow switch from our tree to be disciplined. You had better not pick a thin one. If you did, dad would opt for the belt instead. Was this a good way to be brought up? In retrospect, I think so. I had a healthy respect/fear of my father. It kept me on the straight and narrow. It took many years/kids to realize this. I also agree with the over-stimulation of kids these days. It's just too much. Soccer after school, violin lessons, cell phones, texting, computers, video games...yadda, yadda. When they don't have that stimulation they don't have any idea what to do. The classic story I tell my students is how we used to play the dictionary game. Honest. (Ok, I'm a nerd.) We'd all grab a dictionary and see who could find an obscure word the fastest. That's life in South Dakota. [img]:smile:[/img] I don't know how to get back to that world anymore. I went home a year ago and the small town I grew up in is just a miniature version of a big city now. It was sad to see that. I don't know where you can live anymore without these problems. If someone knows...let me know. I'll be leaving Vegas in a year. Abbey [/QUOTE]
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