For those with little ones.

[Irving]

Wait til I tell you guys how great of a parent I am.

[brutal]

Wait til I tell you guys how great of a parent I am.

Wait until I tell you guys how great of a grandparent I am.

That right there, ought to be proof positive.

FWIW, Every child is different. Every child needs limits. Every child needs to be rewarded for the good they do and punished - appropriately - for the bad. Every child requires a customized program tailored to your specific lives.

I never had as much time for my kids as I would have liked, but providing is hard work. Budget as much time to enrich their lives as you can, and strive to do the best you can. They get their strengths and weaknesses from you and everyone else in their lives. Try to be the strong one. Try to be the loving one. Try to be the fair one.

It's for the chillen afterall.

[Irving]

Don't even ask about how TheGinsue is as a parent. A few years ago he gave his son a book, and he ATE the pages!

[GilpinGuy]

HBAR. Again, I wasn't being condescending if it came off that way.

Here's my view. I'm a backyard mechanic. Litterally. No garage even. I fix shit in the mud and snow at 9000 feet in the winter. It sucks.

I haven't needed the shitty Haynes manuals in a decade. Search Google or YouTube for "How to replace a front deivers side wheel bearing in a 2011 Nissan Rogue" and you get a step by step instructional video and/or a detailed write up on how to do it. Fricking cool.

And I learned how to maintain, disassemble, clean and assemble my first AR completely from YouTube. The net can be a wonderfull thing outside of school.

And speaking of school...working on getting my 2 young ones out of government schools. It's a tough one though.

And Kazoo...yeah. The lack of NO is why many kids are mindless skulls of mush. And it's challenging. I have an 11 yo and a 3 yo. Two others are grown and outta da house. And doing just fine, btw.

Anyway, I'm chilling in Glenwood with the wife for our anniversary and just checked in because of Orlando.

I guess I ruffled a few feathers. Whoops.

[GilpinGuy]

Bravo! I guess it was the "my kids don't care about technology" comment that got me thinking.

[GilpinGuy]

Man, homeschooling is what I've been looking into a lot the last year or so. It isn't easy to just dive into.

[Great-Kazoo]

First it was tv, then rock and roll, then video games now cell phones. Errrrmahgerd.

NO it's the parent[s] who give their kids said items before they're out of elementary school. Little Billy has no need for a cell phone, what so ever.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

NO it's the parent[s] who give their kids said items before they're out of elementary school. Little Billy has no need for a cell phone, what so ever.

Nah. My two year old will text me from her crib if she poops in her pull up. I've trained her that's a lot easier and better than actually crying or using words. Her spelling kinda sucks but she uses commas in the right spots.

[hurley842002]

Her spelling kinda sucks but she uses commas in the right spots.

She's already doing better than many of the folks on here....