In a message dated 5/19/2002 8:42:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jaxone1234@msn.com writes: > "I,m still asleep and I won't get up to tramp all over the house to see who > is still asleep or not". > > Wrong attitude or not, by golly if a child in my household ever told a > caller that it would be years before they ever laid their hands on another > telephone Well, Jack, Parental discipline is just as important as child discipline. The parental supervision is more than just watching your chilod do what they want, and only what they want. Parental responsibility also means setting limits, and sticking to those limits. It also means that as responsibility is shown that those limits may be expanded. There are no "automatics". Children should be aware that the responsibilities to act socially acceptable are what makes life run smoothly. Those who force their way have a longer and harder fight than those who use the existing currents to get to the destination. Your converstaion should be with the parents, and unfortunately, by THIS time the behaviors in both parents and child are pretty well set in stone. Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.)