AWESOME article. Now if I could just show it to the Behemoth and GG. . .oh wait it's too late. Not that they'd give it any creedance anyway.

Tv in the room....pffftttt. Funny though-my exh wanted to put a tv in the boys room when they were little...to be honest it was actually pretty nice to SOMETIMES not have to hear blues clues, dora, et al... all the time in the living room. It was used in very limited amounts-maybe an hr a day tops- BUT I still disagreed. Once we split I removed the tv from the rooms, and now they are older and STILL dont' have a tv in their room-and WON'T they dont' even ask.

I don't like having a tv in MY room-bf argued it would be nice if the kids are watching a show together and we want to watch whatever we want- I told him no, because our sex life will suffer. he didn't believe me, I proved him wrong a few weeks ago when i finally put an old tv I had in my room-NOT even connected cable yet-just played dvd's-....he admitted I was right by end of week It hasn't been on since.

Your dh is an ass that thinks a 7 year old deserves or needs a tv in their room. Remind him please: You know whats unfair and mean? Kids starving in Africa and India, kids living in the ghettos and amongst trash heaps and disease and sexual exploitation, and child slavery and prostitution and hunger. THAT is unfair and mean. THEY DESERVE more. Tell him to take the money to buy a damn 7yr old a tv in the room and donate it to those in need. UGHHHH

Discipline deficit disorder?? LOL. Its called SPOILED BRAT

"Mellor recalls a time when his daughter broke the washing machine door in anger. "She was grounded, but she also had natural consequences in that I made her pay for it," he says. "It was a lot for a child to manage but she had to be responsible for her own actions."

AHA...a few weeks ago (right before holiday/winter break) I found out that SD got in trouble at school for fighting/cussing on thursday-She was going to get ISS or detention or have punishment doled out the next day since this happened towards end of thursday-...SO her mom let her skip school on Friday and start the winter break early OH and drop her off at 10am at her dads instead of usual time w/out telling him WHY she wasnt really in school. He took her skating that same night however after SD told him what happened (I guess to be rewarded?)-then when I saw her next day she was almost bragging about the school incident. WTF???? When she went back after break-they forgot about her detention/trouble she was supposed to be in. Of course got showered with Christmas presents and good ole times the 2 1/2 wks.

YEP, no consequences. If my kid got in trouble for saying fu and bullying in school and had a consequence waiting the next day? His ass is THERE, and THEN he's not doing anything fun over the wknd. OH but NO.....not SD, poor child of divorce with her awful mom that doen'st care, sob story sob.... :sick:

I've seen this kid brag about fights, bullying, the 16 cavities she had capped on her baby teeth, clamoring that sugar is GOOD for her because she's a kid and she doesn't care she had cavities, she's proud of it....F"ED UP I tell you!

Maybe she was praised for that too! If my kid had that many cavities they wouldn't be touching sweets liek she does-OH and she bragged that she hasn't been to the dentist in years