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Originally Posted by Captain_Curmudgeon
This thread makes me sad. I can sympathize with your various situations but as a parenting method this is very sad.
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I tell my kids to put their helmets on before they go out biking...but I still look out the window to make sure they've obeyed. By this time, they are already in the street. If I find they haven't complied, I call them back in to get the helmets on.
With the computer, we have it in a public area of the house. My son gets home a few minutes before I do...if he must be online, I check up on his activity. When I'm home and he's online, I regularly walk by to see what he's looking at.
How is it sad to instruct, then check up on the kids? I don't get it...please explain, Captain! Or are you sad about the differing values in the kids' two homes?