Epicurus
01-31-2004, 02:21 PM
Does this disturb anyone else?
Collette
No Greater Joy – Volume 1
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Mistraining at Three Months
One of the young mothers in the church tells how she trained her three-month-old daughter to cry and whine to be picked up and held. Upon seeing her parents start to drift into another room, the baby cried out. The father responded, “Get little Suzy, she wants to be with us.” Mother picked up Suzy, and she spread her beautiful smile in delight. Well, that’s the real life story of how Suzy was trained to whine. She initiated an act, whining, to which the mother responded by picking her up. That was the first day of a lifelong habit.
She will refine her technique, employing more threats and spreading more misery. She will eventually fall on the floor, kicking her feet and screaming. The mother will be embarrassed in public, frustrated and angry at home, and will eventually have such contention and strife between her and her demanding daughter that she will write a letter to us wanting to know how to deal with an angry, undisciplined and unthankful teenager.
At less than three months old this little girl had discovered the power of emotional manipulation. For several days she refined her technique of control. She discovered how to use her mother’s guilt against her. She is so sweet, such a delight—as long as she is getting her way. Most parents will tolerate this behavior until the child is a two-year-old terror, and then they will decide that maybe she is about old enough to start getting a spanking for her fits. The first good spanking will produce the greatest tantrum yet, and the parents will decide that their child just has a double dose of that “sinful nature” they heard the preacher talking about. When the little girl is taken to the professionals, they will tag her with the Attention Deficit Disorder lie.
read the rest here
http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/ngjw1/045%20Mistraining%20at%20Three%20Months.htm
Collette
No Greater Joy – Volume 1
©
Mistraining at Three Months
One of the young mothers in the church tells how she trained her three-month-old daughter to cry and whine to be picked up and held. Upon seeing her parents start to drift into another room, the baby cried out. The father responded, “Get little Suzy, she wants to be with us.” Mother picked up Suzy, and she spread her beautiful smile in delight. Well, that’s the real life story of how Suzy was trained to whine. She initiated an act, whining, to which the mother responded by picking her up. That was the first day of a lifelong habit.
She will refine her technique, employing more threats and spreading more misery. She will eventually fall on the floor, kicking her feet and screaming. The mother will be embarrassed in public, frustrated and angry at home, and will eventually have such contention and strife between her and her demanding daughter that she will write a letter to us wanting to know how to deal with an angry, undisciplined and unthankful teenager.
At less than three months old this little girl had discovered the power of emotional manipulation. For several days she refined her technique of control. She discovered how to use her mother’s guilt against her. She is so sweet, such a delight—as long as she is getting her way. Most parents will tolerate this behavior until the child is a two-year-old terror, and then they will decide that maybe she is about old enough to start getting a spanking for her fits. The first good spanking will produce the greatest tantrum yet, and the parents will decide that their child just has a double dose of that “sinful nature” they heard the preacher talking about. When the little girl is taken to the professionals, they will tag her with the Attention Deficit Disorder lie.
read the rest here
http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/ngjw1/045%20Mistraining%20at%20Three%20Months.htm