To be really brief, if parents are 100% clear on what they are doing, their children could just obey them because it gets the job done. I suppose, if someone tells them to jump off a cliff they may just think for themselves, however for the convenience of it all, it is so much easier to have a system. Thus far, the system is to listen and it works well if everyone does their part.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
Well put my child.Originally Posted by Heathcliff
Children beastliness necessitates reprimanding or else they are like untamed wild wolves.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Children should obey, because their parents have traveled the road before.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
Children lack the knowledge that their parents can provide... In most cases.
MSDGreen is here
Children need cultivation and through cultivation only they are expected to behave rationally and intelligently. Of course they must follow their parents or they can go astray
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
This question is just so absurd. Who are they supposed to obey, the milkman?
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
The "good dose" part was, but considering how resentful African_Love seemed to be toward his/her parents, there is a possibility.
Though of course, many people resent their parents to some extent, so I'm not saying it's a definite or even very strong possibility, but it is a possibility none-the-less.
You never know, the milkman may be their daddy :sifone:This question is just so absurd. Who are they supposed to obey, the milkman?
Well, don't let your husband see that. He may start to wonder.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Regardless who their daddy is - children should always respect their elders. Although I must say it is a give-and-take relationship... One must give some leeway and relax with their children. Respect should also be given to the young as they are the future and need guidance not ownership.
Erm... Elders. Yea, some elders. Not all. Parents, yea, probably someone to listen to.
Ahh, now you see that is where I'm different. I think guidance and ownership. I notice this with my friends all the time, if they just did everything I said then life would be so much easier for them. Say... They don't do there work. I encourage them to. There is positive peer-pressure. If they would just listen, life would be much easier.
Telling, rather than asking, is a good way to go by when it is something vital. Or if it is something everyday like, 'do you want the red one or the pink one?' That is alright I guess.
Of course being the experiencedparent I am, I know all about this.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
When I was a kid the whole idea of this was stupid
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
For a few years, 9-11yrs, I thought it was all stupid. I got over it. It makes sense. I've got that now.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
But not always does it make sese
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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