tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8010473.post-61157066321045035392008-05-11T08:20:00.000-07:002008-05-11T08:20:00.000-07:00As shocking as your tale is to my sensibilities as a person and future parent, I am more dismayed by how <I>normal</I> this behavior is becoming. Parents seem to be playing a popularity contest, and have become so laissez faire in the raising of children that "no" is suddenly a bad word...<BR/>I hope I'm not the "exception to the rule", but my siblings and I would never even have dreamed of misbehaving in public like that - not even in front of our friends when other adults weren't present. It just wasn't a bluff we cared to call.<BR/>But this scenario is alarming - if children are not taught to respect their elders and peers, how can they be taught to respect <B>anything</B>?j'taimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546492382229138789noreply@blogger.com