[Ansteorra] Children

[Sean Gulick]

I wholeheartedly agree with this post!  My sentiments exactly.

Gideon, father of two SCA children
(who seem to me to be responsible, however I always appreciate being  
made aware of anything I should improve on, including parenting!)

>
>
> Wait a minute. On the one hand you're saying that "it takes a  
> kingdom to
> raise a child" but on the other hand you seem to be objecting to  
> parents
> who leave it to "the kingdom" to watch their kids.
>
> While I agree that the MoC isn't a babysitting service, it is *not*  
> the
> responsibility of "the kingdom" (or "the village" for that matter)  
> to raise
> kids; that's the parents' job.
>
> If parents are shirking their responsibility and letting kids run  
> wild and
> cause problems, then it might be "the kingdom's" job to take the  
> parents to
> task for being irresponsible--ask the unsupervised kid where their  
> parents
> are and if they're not immediately available,then maybe the heralds  
> should
> cry the camp to reunite the wayward parents with their kids; if the  
> parents
> are being sufficiently irresponsible they should be asked to leave the
> site, etc.
>
>          -Tivar Moondragon
> father of three *responsible* SCA kids
>
>

_________________________
Dr. Sean P. S. Gulick
Research Associate
Institute for Geophysics
Jackson School of Geosciences
University of Texas at Austin
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