Dear Friends
I don’t understand the original poster’s complaint.
The whole reason I’m here is to learn, so how-tos appeal to me enormously. I love internet forums, more than modeling itself, and am a member of more than 130.
A key skill for deriving gratification from internet forums is being able to find posters you like and/or respect and admire. This forum isn’t much different from the other forums of which I’m a member, though its contributors are older and more polite.
That’s something to brag about. [:-^]
Yes it is seeing I keep my life simple as possible…I never fell into the human rat race like most folks and yet lived a simple comfortable life for 65 years…
Gidday Brent, Put in that context your original use of the phrase "…generally lazy…" makes a certain amount of sense, however as a parent (and having the reputation of being an unrepentant undiplomatic so an so, though that is no excuse for a lack of manners ) I would suggest that teaching your kids good behaviour and the reasons for it should not be an effort but a normal part of parental responsibility.
That said I suspect that we’re debating from the same side of the fence. [:D]
Cheers, the Bear.
Or, maybe you two are just in “violent agreement”. [:D]
Tom
Of this there is no doubt in my mind.
As far as it being an effort to do right for your kids. I always tell them that nothing is an effort for me as far as they are concerned. But I’ll tell ya, constantly getting up at 0430 for Hockey practice or spending all weekend at a swim meet is a real effort for me. At 56 and full of arthritis with a 11 and 14 year old, there is something to be said about having kids when you are young.[(-D]