XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Don Homuth  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:19:52 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:34:52 +1200, Yeah Right   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On , , Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:39:16 -0700, Re: "It's just pot.":   
   >>>>Double Standard?, Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:36:29 -0700, Don Homuth   
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>Loving Parents bring their children up to make independent   
   >>>>>>decisions on matters relating to their own families.  They don't   
   >>>>>>try to buy them off on matters that they really ought not to   
   >>>>>>control.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>But I have yet to see anyone with more than a dime to dangle in   
   >>>>>>front of their children who will Not try to control them with it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>A Tale of Two Families (true story!)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>I don't really think a 13 year old is capable of making such life   
   >>>>changing decisions such as these.   
   >>>   
   >>> The kids did.   
   >>   
   >>And "loving parents" would not require them to do so.   
   >   
   > Loving Parents would first teach them how to do so, then allow them to   
   > do so.  In preference to keeping them under their fiscal and physical   
   > thumbs.   
   >   
      
   13 is not a good age to be making those decisions.   
      
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