From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   When I was in grade school, there was a girl there named Anna Famberg. She   
   looked dumpy, got bad grades and had behavioral problems. Then in 6th grade   
   she comes in; and she’s composed, she’s elegant and she is getting good   
   grades. And her name is    
   Anna Filipovich.   
      
   Sometimes parenting makes all the difference. Parenting can be done in any   
   number of ways, and some are better than others. A parent can be the   
   difference between someone going to Harvard and someone going to jail.   
      
   As any parent knows, children are not, as Locke said, “tabula rasa.â€�   
   Different children come with different temperaments and different   
   personalities. Children are however impressionable, and it is of vital   
   significance that the influence that the    
   parent exercises on the child is a valid one.   
      
   Some parents justify mistreating their children by claiming that their   
   children are bad. I can think of no more contemptible standpoint. If you think   
   that your child is bad, give her up for adoption, as you have no chance of   
   being a good parent.   
      
   I have been blessed with a wonderful daughter. She gets a lot of love both   
   from me and from her mother. Here is someone with a good nature who is also   
   being parented well. She is doing well in school, has lots of friends and is   
   in no kind of trouble.   
      
   What the child becomes is a function both of their nature and the parenting   
   that they have received. I have known good parents whose children wound up   
   badly; I have known bad parents whose children wound up well. The parent is   
   not in control of the childâ   
   €™s propensities, but he is in control of the influence that he exercises over   
   the child. Parents need to be taught to be loving and to treat their children   
   better. And if they think that the child is bad, then they should cease   
   parenting the child and    
   give a chance to someone who would be better to the child.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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