ANST - Re: Bad parents
Mary Temple
noxcat at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 8 09:06:50 PDT 1998
>Franchesca Havas said something that sounded like:
>> Do any of you also feel that parenting in the SCA is not up to snuff?
>
>I'm sorry but as a parent, I must take offense at this. *smile*
>
(snip)
>I know in Bryn Gwlad, the good parents well outnumber the bad.
(snip)
>Btw, it is my opinion that bad parenting is not a problem isolated to
>the SCA. Quite the opposite. Of my exposure, there are far more good
>parents (precentage wise) than bad in the SCA than there is in the US
>society as a whole.
>
>A good thing to remember is "children will behave the way you expect
>them to". This is true for most children, despite the parents.
>
Heh. This from the parent of one of the children held up as an example
of well-behaved children!
As a non-parent, I agree. I am still amazed by the behavior of SCA
children when I compare it to the behavior of non-SCA children. They're
paragons of virtue! Even when I compare the child that I was told was
the worst behaved in Bryn Gwlad to those outside of the SCA, I still
think that way. (BTW - before any Bryn Gwlad parent gets paranoid, he's
no longer active in the SCA.)
I'd really hate to think that Bryn Gwlad is the exception to the rule.
Catriona Rowley
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