Parent writes "cute" article about whining. September 30, 2019 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,204 |
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And our American children, ages 11 and 9, whined everywhere: hiking on the beautiful coastline of New Zealand’s South Island, swimming in a water park in Dubai, watching a homecoming parade down Main Street of a small Kansas town. (“They’re throwing more candy to the other kids!”) As we rode horses through the Costa Rican jungle, the sound of howler monkeys expressing their discontent failed to drown out the sound of our children expressing theirs. I now consider myself a keen amateur scholar of whining.
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Re: Parent writes "cute" article about whining. September 30, 2019 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,578 |
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freya
And for $25.20 you can read all about the whines the author put up with from his sprogs on the year around the world trip. It is the perfect angle to sell a book because everyone is looking to pay for a big bunch of whine mixed with an overdose of humble brag. The whining in the news just isn't cutting it anymore.
I wonder how long it takes him to talk about how fortunate they are to travel the world. Bet that is in the first chapter if not the prologue. Bet he has been dying to broadcast that for years along with lots of other self-congratulatory back pats inter-dispersed among the brat whines. Bet they describe themselves as privileged and spaghetti monster knows what else. Guessing the book makes the trip wholly or partly tax deductible. I bet their kids have some righteous names. Gag me.
Guess duh and moo still haven't figured out their kid's obnoxious whining is a direct manifestation of their poor parenting. A humble brag is simply a "refined" whine anyways, duh.
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Re: Parent writes "cute" article about whining. October 01, 2019 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,204 |
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WTH kind of New Age-y Psycho-Babble Parunting is this?
We are taught that the ideal way to respond to whining is with exaggerated kindness: I understand that you feel upset because this isn’t going the way you wanted it to. That must be frustrating. The resulting disparity between the emotion we feel and the expression we deliver seems emblematic of parenting, where so much of our energy goes toward battling our instincts in order to do that which is right.
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Needless to say, we fail at this quite often, and so our first response to whining is, not infrequently, “Stop whining,” a phrase that has never, in the history of human parenting, stopped whining.
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kittehpeoples
If I'd paid to take them somewhere and they complained about it, their first trip would be their last. Why tolerate that shit?
Re: Parent writes "cute" article about whining. October 03, 2019 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,365 |
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kittehpeoples
If I'd paid to take them somewhere and they complained about it, their first trip would be their last. Why tolerate that shit?
If the kid is in pain that is a reason to complain. However, if the kid is just bored, he or she may not be old enough to appreciate the outing. Some moos will not pay attention when their children are in pain.
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