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Non-Bouncy
« on: October 15, 2012, 01:54:31 PM »
I'm sitting at a library as I type this. Two tables behind me is a woman sitting with 3 children of Middle School age.

One of the children is a young man telling the group how he kept acting up in class and how his grades and relationships suffered for it. His behavior became so bad that they had him medicated and put in to a class of "those kids."

He said--and this is what prompted me to write--that the more he was in this class and medicated the more he realized he had an excuse to act-up. Worse still, he noticed it in the other kids as well and they were in a competition to control people. The more he tried to control people the more friends he lost. He said he had to make a decision to control himself without the medications.

He speaks with a maturity about self-control, alcohol and drugs that belie his obviously less than decade and a half of life. This is good in that he has nothing but success ahead of him...

...it is sad that life has robbed him of his childhood.

Still, I can only wonder how many DUmbasses would be DUmbasses if they had this kid's metality.

I also wonder how many of them would try desperately to poison him and drag him away from what he is now so as to justify their own miserable existences.
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Re: Non-Bouncy
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2012, 03:36:37 PM »
They would tell him it's all our fault! Sure as hell couldn't be his own fault. We've seen it over the years time and time again. We spend more per child than any other country in the world and produce DUmmies!
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Re: Non-Bouncy
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2012, 04:11:27 PM »
They would tell him it's all our fault! Sure as hell couldn't be his own fault. We've seen it over the years time and time again. We spend more per child than any other country in the world and produce DUmmies!

Treating the symptoms without bothering to find the root problem.

Some kids are born Alpha A personalities.  They were born to controll others, others born meek and mild, born to try to please everyone even at their own peril.------Milk Toasts we once called these men.   Woman's shelters are full of woman that do not know to stand up for themselves.  

Way to easy to just pop a pill in a kids mouth and ignore them for outbursts when to find a sport or interest for them that exhaust all the pen up energy of an Alpha child.   Girls, as young as 5 that are unsure of themselves can benefit from a YMCA class in self defence to build confidence.

Have to think out side the box and be active in your child's life, trying to change them from what they are is insane, putting drugs  into them to somehow change their behavior is like keeping them high and out of reality.

It is my belief that the Alpha's need to work off their energy, the week need to boost their activity.