<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=172854.msg8260271#msg8260271">Quote from: phoenyx on 21-05-2013, 03:53:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I so agree. I feel sorry for most kids today. even with all the tech advances making life easier, they still have it rough. cuz very few parents are actually raising their kids and teaching them respect, for themselves and others. or responsibility for their actions. <br/><br/>my kids positively hate me cuz I'm Old School. they have chores and punishments and even arse whoopins as the need arises. not nearly as many as I did as a kid, but they still get em now and again.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Technology? What's technology??? My mini doesn't get a whole lot of that. She spends most of her time with actual toys or with her drawing/coloring/painting supplies. She DOES have a Leap Pad, but all the games I buy for her are educational or artistic and it's used mostly in the evening or on car rides. :)<br/><br/>She's little, so she doesn't have real "chores" assigned to her yet, but she's learned that if she doesn't pick her toys up out of the living room before bedtime, Mom will pick them up for her...but if Mom picks them up, Mom throws them away! She doesn't get many whoopins, but only because she's a pretty good kid and doesn't usually need to be told more than twice to do something. She knows I mean it when I tell her, "If you do X one more time, I will swat your butt". She also doesn't get them much because they aren't the most effective punishment on her. Sticking her on her bed, shutting the door, and ignoring her works MUCH better in her case! lol