I got in trouble 4 saying '2 wrongs don't make a right' to a teacher who said this lots when she confiscated something.Same thing,less nerdy
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I always felt it was hypocritical for adults who believed in punishment to say '2 wrongs don't make a right.' Kids have a sense of justice 2
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Also standing up yourself is good.A boy who kicks your PE bag across the room does indeed deserve to have all his stuff knocked off his desk
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I think if you intend to tell a child that two wrongs don't make a right, you'd need to apply that to your own behaviour too.
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Because its no good telling a kid not to respond to negative behaviour with negative consequences if you do that yourself.
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Instead you could help them think about when this is helpful & when it isn't, when they can handle it themselves & when they can't.
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I remember being a very indignant child. V argumentative. I must have been a complete pain in the arse. Got told 'just do as ur told' a lot
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It makes me very anxious not to be an unfair or unreasonable parent tho & not to ban anything without very good reason.
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I think this is good coz my daughter also gets outraged at what she sees as unfairness. I have no idea whether this is nature or nurture.
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But I'm not a particularly permissive parent. I have very little tolerance for behaviour that is unpleasant for others.
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I've no idea if I'm doing this parenting thing right. I try to imagine what Lucy will say to her friends about me when she's an adult.
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Coz my friends & I have dissected our own parents' parenting with a fine tooth comb & this is common. I want to know what my report will be
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Well done them. What is the refutation? I like being a smart arse but am not that clever, thanks!
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Apparently if you add negatives in maths it does make a positive.
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No, if you multiply two negatives it makes a positive
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I do not care. She knows what she's talking about. I do not.
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But morals don't operate mathematically. To suggest so is to misunderstand both mortality and maths. It's a clever comeback sure. But wrong
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Obviously. She was being a smartarse.
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Yeah of course. I'm hoping the teacher was educationally equipped to deal with with it.
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I think she recognised that it was humour.
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OK. It sounded like they'd got into the trouble for it with teacher.
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Told not to be a smartarse, yes.
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The best way to ensure they become one. Poor teacher but fair play to the sprog.
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