Raising Children

[Game Girl]

The last thread I commented in inspired me to make a topic on this subject.

How many of you have children? What do you think is the best way to raise them?

In my honest opinion, the proper way to rear a child is to raise them to make their own calls. Let them decide what they want to do with their lives. Be it their career choices, faith or whatever. Thats how I was raised. To decide for myself what I precieve as right and wrong AND to decide my own career path.

I've seen how neo-nazis raise their children. Brainwash them into believing THEIR ideaology. They even put fear in them, saying if they don't follow their ideas then they will be disowned. What kind of parent does that?! Is that really anyway to raise a child? By instilling fear into them? Actually...They don't raise their kids..They recruit them!

I would NEVER force my beliefs onto my children (if I had any). Your there to prepare children for life, not to recruit them into a political cause.

Good to see that anti-fascists never bring their children to demonstrations. Unlike those racist thugs! You don't bring a child to something like that.

Maybe Germany has the right idea. Take children away from their neo-nazi parents. Gives them a better chance at life. What do you think?

[maskerade]

No, you're completely wrong. Control them and micro-manage everything they do. Tell them they are wrong and that they don't know what life is about. Constantly tell them that they'll understand when they're older. Harass them about the annoyance which is providing for them. Complain about how expensive they are. etc.

worked well for me

[Smyg]

Good to see that anti-fascists never bring their children to demonstrations. Unlike those racist thugs! You don't bring a child to something like that.

Maybe Germany has the right idea. Take children away from their neo-nazi parents. Gives them a better chance at life. What do you think?

The Swedish neo-nazi party 'Svenskarnas parti', formerly 'Nationalsocialistisk front', recently had a camp aimed at children. First thing I've heard of anything similar in Sweden, probably has happened in the rest of Europe many times before. Absolutely disgusting indoctrination. It's the Hitlerjugend all over again.

[Dr Mindbender]

I have children. I will not say how many nor their gender for fear of identification.

I prefer to use reward for good behaviour over chastisement for bad behaviour. Its a simple enough philosophy.

Respect begets respect.

[Rafiq]

Your kids are going to do whatever they want regardless of how you raise them. You will never raise your kids, society raises them (unless they're home schooled)

They'll do whatever they want, and it's best you don't act strict at all, considering the choice for you is: Knowing about it or being lied to.

Also, if you're nice to them they'll feel guilty about doing things you don't approve of.

[Magón]

You gotta be a Tiger Mom, and whatever the equivalent of the man's name is.

Also, what's so wrong with taking a kid to a rally/protest? Whenever I go to one, I see parents with their kids, and most of the time the kids just stand around holding a sign they don't have any interest or knowledge in, or are busy running around being kids.

[Fulanito de Tal]

No, you're completely wrong. Control them and micro-manage everything they do. Tell them they are wrong and that they don't know what life is about. Constantly tell them that they'll understand when they're older. Harass them about the annoyance which is providing for them. Complain about how expensive they are. etc.

worked well for me

You must have met my adoptive parents! Don't forget to say that the children are shit-kids [chiquios de mierda] :lol:

Regardless, I'm not going to complain. They gave me much more love and values than any institution would have.

[Quail]

I do sometimes take my son to non-violent demos. He's not really old enough to understand what's going on, but he does quite like playing with free stickers he gets at picket lines ;)

I don't want to be too strict with him when he's older. I'd rather he trusted me enough to let me know what he's doing. I'm not going to indoctrinate him into my political beliefs, but I will explain why I think what I think, and he'll probably end up mingling with quite a few anarchists.

One thing that really bothers me is that my family have very different ideas, especially with things like gender. I don't want people to say to him, "You can't do that because that's girly," but it's already happening, and he's only 16 months!

[Sensible Socialist]

Parents need to give kids the resources and freedom they need to define themselves as unique individuals. Don't force any ideology on them, but I would say it's important to challenge kids early on, even if you agree with them, so they are able to understand the world around them and have the ability to analyze it on their own.