Conventional vs. Newschool

You're tap-dancin' in a mine field, Boss. I would venture to suggest that you cannot get much of discussion on this topic that will not be fraught with the political attitudes of the respondants. I don't mean to suggest that no fair-minded people will show up, simply that people have a great deal invested politically in such a question. Many right-wing people believe that "the American family is under attack." Many left-wing people believe that "children of poor families are marginalized and left behind."

Good luck with this, it just seems to me that you are unwittingly opening a can of very active worms. I would also add that the differences between child care now and 20 years ago is not great. Try 50 or more years if you want real distinctions.

Effective for who? The parent or the child?

I don't get it!

I don't get it!

I don't get it!

oops...sorry for the triplets.

Letty,

The poster obviously removed their stuff after Set and me made a comment. Hopefully someone will just delete the entire thread!!

It seems that our friend has edited his/her original post, in order to create complete confusion as regards what the hell it was about.

Memories of Fred...

Fred was a one-of-a-kind poster, warn't he . . .

I don't usually wander into philosophy debates. They too often go over my head. Thought for a second that this one might be just the one to dip my toe in... How deep can it get when it barely passes "a?"


But, no. This one has me stumped, too.

Please let me add, I really don't think that this is Fred, it's just the deletion that brought back memories.

Darn,

I for one don't mind dancing in mine fields, and the if I remember the original topic was interesting, it a bit broad.

Carbon, can you put back your original post please? If you do, I promise to add a well thought out response. Who knows, it may lead to an interesting discsussion.

Don't let Setanta scare you away. He means well...

er, who is Fred? Wow. I better start taking Vitamin E again.

Fred came around about half-a-year or so back, and hung around the Relationship threads, describing a relationsihp dilemna . . . but it eventually fell out that Fred was a high school student, was making most of it up, was probably distorting what truth he was dealing in, and then tried to pose as someone else. He was thoroughly outed. So he went around telling everyone "effyou" and deleting all his posts. He had as an avatar the picture of the little boy from the Jetsons cartoon show . . .

I don't see Carbon as a Fred type, i don't think it would be proper for me to post the nature of the topic--that would be up to Carbon.

as you may have noticed i reposted the original question, i hope it fits setanta's crudentials

Just for the record, i was not saying this topic has no place here, just that you might get a highly, politically-charged response. It is not my place to tell anyone what they should or should not post.

Hey Carbon, I'm thinking two things: First, perhaps define what you mean by 'new' parenting techniques and 'old' parenting techniques, and maybe have this moved to the Parenting and Childcare forums. You may get more relevent responses there. I assume you are looking for a discussion regarding strict discipline and a more nurturing 'time out' approach, but I'm not sure. I think you will find that if this can be moved to the proper forum, you will find a certain middle ground, as well as a difference of opinion.

Incidentally, nobody really thought you were Fred. He was just a guy who had a tendency to delete his posts, or change the titles of the threads so that the comments made no sense. He thought it was funny. The rest of us did not. You seem pretty straight-up. You'll figure out this zoo soon enough, I'm sure.