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No one could be more bored than Zack, the new kid in town with no friends in sight. When a gang of hip, skateboarding thrashers start cruising his neighborhood, Zack hopes his luck will chan... Read allNo one could be more bored than Zack, the new kid in town with no friends in sight. When a gang of hip, skateboarding thrashers start cruising his neighborhood, Zack hopes his luck will change. But they want nothing to do with him. Then Zack makes the discovery of his life: a tal... Read allNo one could be more bored than Zack, the new kid in town with no friends in sight. When a gang of hip, skateboarding thrashers start cruising his neighborhood, Zack hopes his luck will change. But they want nothing to do with him. Then Zack makes the discovery of his life: a talking wisecracking, magical skateboard. And suddenly, skateboarding rises to entirely new h... Read all

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A Talking Skateboard saves the day !

Doesnt deserve the 2. 9 stars it is currently rank at.

The movie IMO was actually quite entertaining and fun. Not sure what those who ranked it so low were expecting. But Let's be honest here. It's a low budget kids film with a talking skateboard. I have seen a lot of movies and have seen worse movies than this. But I am the kind of movie person who can get into and enjoy cheesy, overacted, silly movies like this. The movie I feel accomplished it's goal and is appealing to it's target audience. So if you like Skateboarding, Metal Music and Slapstick comedy. The movie is a lot of fun! Armchair Critics need not bother.

Please can someone tell me where that dog is ???

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Where is the boy from the "Success Kid" meme now?

The noughties were a weird one for memes, not least because the memes were just so basic. This was the prime era for simpletons, with something as plain as a relatively normal picture of someone with a funny facial expression practically taking over the world – think Scumbag Steve or the Troll Face. Things have barely changed nowadays tbh.

Regardless, amidst the time where you’d be whipping out your brand new iPod touch and pretending to drink a beer, or secretly playing Doodle Jump under the desk at school, there was a meme that took over all else – the Success Kid meme. For those that don’t know, it’s basically a photo of a baby with his fist clenched, with overlaid text to suggest that something went better than expected. Here’s an example, if it’s even needed:

It really do be like that

But now he’s all grown up, he apparently hates the meme and his mum even announced she would sue republican Steve King for using the image without permission during his campaign to raise funds.

Where did the Success Kid meme come from?

In 2007, 11-month-old Sammy Griner was enjoying a day on the beach with his parents and the story is pretty simple after that: child grabs a fistful of sand to stuff into his mouth, parents photograph child. After being uploaded to Flickr, the photo remained pretty unnoticed for two years with not much interest. When it was eventually first used as a meme, it was jokingly interpreted as the boy having destroyed another child’s sandcastle, but the clenched fist and accomplished look of the child were soon more likened to success and that the person using the meme had accomplished a great feat, and the Success Kid meme was born.

If we’re good at anything in modern society, it’s milking a cash cow. Sammy’s mother Laney licensed the image to multiple advertisers, including Vitamin Water, Virgin Mobile, T-shirts sold at Hot Topic and even for his likeness to be used on Xbox screensavers, probably earning a significant amount of money in the meantime. The meme reached its peak when used by Barack Obama and team during his immigration reform campaign in 2013.

Later down the line in 2015, Sammy’s father Justin was in need of a kidney transplant due to issues that had arisen before Sammy was born, so they used the meme to promote a GoFundMe page which raised over $100,000, successfully allowing him to have the surgery.

Where is the Success Kid meme baby now?

Sammy is now 13 and looks completely different – here’s a couple of photos from his mum’s Instagram:

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He told the New Statesman in a 2016 interview that he “enjoys skateboarding and hanging around with his friends at weekends, and is currently home-schooled by his mum after he got in trouble for talking during class and for high-fiving a classmate in the hallway. ” It looks like he also spends his spare time drawing now that he’s grown up:

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The family recently made news due to Sammy’s mother sending a cease and desist to right-wing Iowa Republican Steve King for using the image in fundraising efforts, calling him a “vile man”:

Just so it’s clear – I have/would never give permission for use of my son’s photo to promote any agenda of this vile man or that disgusting party. https://t.co/AVdl9dxXCs

— Laney Griner (@laneymg) January 23, 2020

It’s unlikely there’ll be a resurgence in popularity with the Success Kid meme (at least amongst people below the age of 40) due to older memes being almost exclusively rehashed into a deliberately cringe and ironic form, but we’ll all cherish our fond memories of sharing different versions of the Success Kid with each other on the playground before it became terribly, terribly uncool.

Read online “It's a child! School for Adequate Parents”, Vika Dmitrieva – LitRes

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Introduction

I wish children had instructions. Or at least the Mute button...

When I was pregnant with my first child, my husband and I prepared for his birth like real honors students. We read popular literature on parenting, went to pregnancy courses (naturally, together!), bought the best products for children, discussed the changes in our lives. Prepared, prepared, but, God, how we were not ready! nine0003

In pregnancy courses, we were taught to determine by the weight of the diaper, whether the child ate well, how to lubricate the navel with brilliant green and how to choose a car seat, but no one told me that in life with a child more serious questions arise every day. No one warned that we would not get enough sleep for the next few years, that relations with my husband would go through several crises, that speech would not flow from our son like a mountain stream exactly a year, that we would get tired, upset, angry.

Nobody taught:

• how to get enough sleep in 40 minutes with a baby in your arms;

• what to do if the child is hysterical, fights and calls names;

• how to respond to lies;

• praise or scold;

• allow or prohibit;

• whether to encourage snitching;

• how to tell your child about sex;

• what to answer his question about his grandmother's death; nine0022

• how to prepare the elder for the birth of the younger;

• how to end up going to the toilet alone!

And much, much more…

Somehow it is not customary to talk about this. It is understood that the vaunted parental intuition will tell. Maternal instinct.

But maternal instinct is just a physiological desire to protect your child. Don't let him die. But how best to take care of a child, how to educate him, is completely not written down in our “instincts”. nine0003

What about parental intuition? In fact, intuition is the accumulated experience of previous generations, which was passed on to us unconsciously. But has this experience always been correct? For example, as children, we saw how a grandmother comforts a roaring child with candy. And now, when the baby is crying, we just want to give him sweets. This is where intuition tells you.

And inside we feel that this is not quite right. It is not quite normal to beat your children, to shame them for dirty pants, to tell that the stork brings children - but how else, we simply do not know. There is no such information in our memory archives. nine0003
When I faced this information void, like a real nerd, I began to study the whole world experience. Literature, scientific research, seminars and trainings. Every time I was faced with a question without an answer, I sincerely tried to figure it out. It was so strange for me that even when buying a microwave, we study the instructions. What can and cannot be done so that it works properly, and does not explode in a week. Before getting a license, we pass serious exams, which means that we have studied a lot of information. nine0003
But becoming parents - zero. Nothing. It's as if the mental, physical, and emotional structure of a child is simpler than that of a microwave oven.

I started writing my findings on my blog and getting questions from equally confused parents. Then I had the idea to create something like a cheat sheet, so that when parents face the next difficulties in raising a child, they can look into the book and understand the issue more easily.

And then these thoughts took shape in a dream. nine0003
Yes, now I have a dream.

My dream is that someday education for parents will become as much a matter of course as learning to read and write. So that people remember with shock the times when parents simply gave birth to a child without receiving any additional information. As some now say with surprise: “Imagine, my great-great-grandmother was from the village and could not read and write.” And after some time, our great-great-grandchildren will say: “Imagine, once people gave birth to children, completely unaware of the stages of child development, the characteristics of the psyche and physiology. Here are the savages! nine0003
I dream that parents will be required to listen to a lecture about their child's adaptation in kindergarten upon admission to kindergarten. That all parents with children over the age of five will be required to complete child safety training. I dream that all citizens of our country, especially those who often interact with children - parents, teachers, educators - will be required to take a first aid course for children in critical situations.

I dream that parental education will become the norm, and not just a fashion for trainings, seminars and books on psychology. nine0003

After all, already now, before adoption, all applicants are required to undergo training at the School of Adoptive Parents. Why can't everyone else get at least basic information about what will happen in their lives after the birth of a child? Why don't they get knowledge about how to interact with a child? This will allow you to save your nerves, and the nerves of the child. This will save many families!

Perhaps this dream is too ambitious and goes beyond my life. But I can sow some seeds right now - for example, write this book. nine0003
Gratitude

I thank all my teachers who met me during the seven years of my parenting journey. Everyone who helped to understand, who supported, who gave valuable information. These are the best psychologists, neuropsychologists, coaches, sleep specialists, breastfeeding experts, child safety experts, pediatricians, speech therapists, neurologists ... I won’t list all the names here - it will be a separate chapter, but I’m sure you know what role you played in of my life. nine0003
I thank every one of my social media followers! Your questions, comments, your sincerity are my inspiration. We wrote this book together. This is our common merit!

I thank my friends who throughout the entire writing of the book believed in me and even offered to take on a chapter, if only I could turn it in on time.

I thank my family - my mother, sister, grandmother, mother-in-law and all the other numerous relatives - for their understanding. You are my rear, without which it would be much more difficult to stand confidently on this earth. nine0003
I thank my beloved husband for his tremendous support. Kolya, I am writing these lines while you are playing with our children, freeing me time to fulfill my dream. I thank God every day for meeting you. I love.

And most importantly. I thank my children - Dima, Leva and Tikhon. Without you, this book would never have been possible. You are my main teachers!

I didn't think I'd burst into tears already in the introduction.

And even more so, I did not think that I would tell my readers about it. nine0003
But let this book begin sincerely.

You know, I put not only my experience into it, but also my heart.

Your Vika Dmitrieva

@vikadmitrieva

It's too early for three

Sometimes I want to go back to the past, meet myself before the birth of children, all so busy and tired, and give her a good punch.

Do you know what was the first book I read when I was pregnant for the first time? Hit by Masaru Ibuka "It's Too Late After 3". Until I had children, the information in this book seemed amazing to me! There, loving parents work with children all day long, and one-year-old children play the violin and speak a foreign language. It sounded very enticing. And most importantly - it's easy! Just study with your child and he will grow up to be a genius! nine0003
And then Dima was born. He did not sleep, yelled, did not take the breast, suffered from colic, from teething. More precisely, he was sleeping - after two hours of motion sickness in my arms and about twenty minutes. Then he woke up, yelled, and it was necessary to rock him again. My husband and I, respectively, also did not sleep, did not have time to eat ... We rolled into a huge depression called "Children - expectation and reality." Every day I cried - either from fatigue, or from the explosion of postpartum hormones, or from helplessness in trying to change something. nine0003
But at the same time, I was thinking about the book where “after three it’s already too late” and I experienced a huge feeling of guilt - after all, while other parents’ children learned cards with words from three months old, and by the year they already spoke two languages and played violin, I was just trying to survive. I tried to get some sleep, tried to smile when the baby was hysterical for hours. What are the violins and languages? There would be to satisfy the primary human needs - for example, sleep.

But all my thoughts were about how much I was missing. It's too late after three! nine0003
And here I am, sleep deprived, tormenting the same sleep-deprived child by reading Pushkin at 3 months, taking him to developmental classes for a year, dragging him to neurologists, osteopaths, homeopaths, pediatricians with a plea: “Do something to make him speak! »

In addition to his intellectual skills, I constantly tried to educate him. Why not educate? A child should know the word “No” in a year! I should be peeing on the potty and collecting my toys! But how?

And only later, a few years later, I found out that a lot of things are STILL EARLY UP TO THREE! nine0003
Subscribers comments:

“I was in the deepest shock at how little I imagined motherhood as a permanent restriction, self-denial and lack of freedom. It took me about a year and a half to recover. It’s somehow not customary for us to tell the truth about the hardships of motherhood, so I was in great shock from the changes in life associated with parenthood.

“Right after the birth of my first child, I was going to a restaurant to celebrate my birthday. Imagine my surprise when, after giving birth, I couldn’t even go outside, the baby was crying all the time. With a stroller, I only walked on the run, even though the child was sleeping. nine0118

“I didn't expect anything, my husband and I just wanted a baby. But the reality just hit me with a log on the head ... And beat, and beat with it during the first months. I was in such shock. I couldn't influence the situation with crying, sleeping, colic… It was wild for me, I just wanted to disappear, dissolve from this world…”

And I get thousands of such comments! Do you understand? Thousands!

Do you think mothers in this state are ready to engage in upbringing and early development? nine0003
I am deeply convinced that newly-made parents should devote all their energy not to the upbringing and development of the child, but to their own adaptation to new living conditions.

Here are the first tasks:

1) Getting the child to sleep.

2) Improving the sleep of parents.

3) Establishment of breast (or artificial) feeding.

4) Improving relations between spouses (after all, 40% of divorces occur in the first years after the birth of a child, couples simply cannot withstand the load, cannot cope with their new roles of mother and father). nine0022

Believe me, if you master these four points, then your child by itself, without any cards and violins, will develop perfectly according to his age. His brain will have enough rest during sleep, the nervous system will not be overloaded, his body will receive high-quality nutrition, his parents will be well-rested, happy, loving and resourceful, they will be happy to spend time with the baby, play and have fun with him from the heart, carry, kiss, hug - and nothing else is required for the development of the baby! nine0003

Sleep, food and love - that's the formula for growing a genius. And not English, violin and Doman's cards.

A very revealing experiment was conducted by Harold Skiles with two groups of mentally retarded children from a special orphanage. The babies of the experimental group at the age of three were given to the care of mentally retarded women from another special institution, and each child with his "mother" was placed in a separate ward. The control group remained in the same conditions. Within a year and a half, the IQ of children from the experimental group increased markedly (from 64 points to 92), while in the control group it decreased by 26 points. What could mentally retarded mothers do for their "adopted" children? They just spent most of their time with them, playing, talking, babysitting. The researchers concluded that for the development of a child, it is not so much the intelligence and qualifications of the adults with whom he communicates that are important, but a warm, attentive, interested attitude - a close emotional connection. It is live communication with a loving adult that provides everything necessary not only for the emotional well-being of the baby and his psychological comfort, but also for the development of his intellect. No educational toys, no teaching methods will replace in infancy either gentle hands or the affectionate look of a mother. nine0003
“But what about education? The child must be educated! Otherwise, he does not obey,” you say. I will open a little secret - a child under three years old simply physically cannot obey you.

Of course, it happens that suddenly your smart instructions work, and a child under three years old really stops throwing toys after the word “No!”. But this is more likely due to the fear of your loud voice or scary face. Or because he is anxious - anxious children are generally more obedient. But not because he really understands the cause and effect and controls himself. nine0003
After all, a child under three years of age has not matured in the brain of the frontal lobes responsible for self-control. Partially they mature after three years, and fully by the age of twelve (although some neuropsychologists are convinced that by twenty-five). What to say about children - many adults do not have self-control, and we all know them.

Until the age of three, a child does not understand the connection “cause and effect”, does not have abstract thinking, cannot control himself and his actions.

That is, the child will understand you, nod, agree, and then still do it in his own way. Because at the very moment of action, even if he really wants to, he will not be able to control himself. nine0003

Disobedience up to three years is not bad behavior, not harmfulness, not manipulation. It's just an immature brain!

It is absolutely useless to swear at a child, to yell, to have long explanatory conversations. He is not guilty, he is not an idiot, he is not a hooligan, he does not deliberately piss you off, he does not manipulate, he simply cannot behave differently.

This does not mean that there is no need to speak and explain. This means that you should not expect an instant reaction and be angry at a two-year-old. nine0003

Save your nerves - they will come in handy after three years.

So, is it still early before three? Read, write, learn languages! Numerous studies show that the cerebral cortex is overloaded and this untimely load "exhausts" other parts of the brain, which at this moment are in the stage of active development.

Consequences of early development, which are increasingly faced by specialists: at the age of seven, a healthy and intellectually developed child "suddenly" develops enuresis, obsessive movements, tics, fears, and in adolescents - absolute passivity and unwillingness to learn. nine0003
Here's what you really need to focus on before the age of three:

• On harmonious breastfeeding (or artificial) feeding, and later on on normal eating with adult food.

• To build a routine and quality sleep. Because it is in sleep that the child's brain develops best.

• On the quality sleep of parents. Because with lack of sleep, a lot of the hormone cortisol (stress hormone) is released, which makes us irritable, angry, aggressive. But how can irritable, angry and aggressive parents communicate normally with a child? nine0022

• Relationship between parents. A calm emotional background in the family is extremely important for the harmonious development of the child.

• When you have built all of the above, then use your strength not for the intellectual, but for the physical development of the baby. No, no, I don't mean professional sports. I’m talking about the skills to crawl, walk, jump, walk up stairs, run, squat, eat with a spoon, drink from a straw, etc. By and large, you don’t even need to do this on purpose. If the child is full and calm, then he will try to climb everywhere, jump, dig around in everything, and you just won’t pull him nervously, because you are well-rested and happy parents. nine0022

Your main task until the age of three is to provide the child with the opportunity to move and explore the world around him. Instead of endlessly "developing" the child by showing him Doman's cards, it's better to just be with him, carry him in your arms and enjoy communication.

I would love to write a whole book for parents of children from birth to three, but who would read it? Do parents of such kids have time for books?

Mode

“A friend complains that she is tired of the routine: washing, cooking, ironing… She wants to have a baby. How do I tell her that I have bad news for her? nine0003

The child bites his nails, hysteria, is rude to his parents, masturbates, fights, sleeps badly, picks his navel, gets irritated and whines over trifles, urinates, poops, studies poorly, eats poorly. It would seem that what unites all these (and many other) problems?

The fact that their solution always starts with adjusting the child's daily routine.

Yes, yes, sometimes you don't have to take a child to psychologists for months, you just need to build a competent daily routine, and his psyche will tell you "thank you!". nine0003

You might object, “No, it's boring to live according to a plan. I love spontaneity, I am a creative person!” But here's food for thought.

Imagine that you have decided to build a house. They invited a team of builders and asked how long they would build, what stages of construction, what plan, what result and how much money such construction would cost. And they answer you: “We will not make a plan. It's boring, it limits and kills creativity. We will build as we can." Would you hire such a brigade, give them money? nine0003
Why do so many people allow this attitude towards their lives and the lives of their children?

Even with a clear schedule, there will be a lot of spontaneity in your life. Sometimes it will be initiated by you, sometimes by your environment, sometimes by life itself, and even children can get sick - and all plans will go to hell. So do not worry about boredom - with children it does not shine for you.

"Oh, we don't plan in advance, you never know what might happen," is another popular objection. I assure you, if the responsibility for your life lies with you, and not with your mother, children, husband, government and weather, very little can suddenly happen. nine0003
Big businessmen plan their lives thirty years ahead! And not only in stable Europe, but also in our unpredictable country. Because they live with confidence: “If I want, there is little that can stop me. I am the CEO of my life."

Subscribers' comments:

“When my first child was born, my husband's mother told me: “The regime is not needed! Bathe when it is convenient, put it to bed when it is convenient,” they say, if the child wants to sleep, then he will fall asleep. I was completely inexperienced and with such advice I brought myself to a nervous breakdown, fell in the truest sense of the word, because I was tired. The child and I were simply unhappy with him. nine0118

“When Maksim was born to me, my grandmother said: “If you work out a routine, you won’t know any problems.” And indeed it is! You clearly know when to feed, when it's time for the baby to sleep, when you yourself will have a free minute…”

“With my eldest daughter, I noticed a semblance of a regimen at three months and exhaled calmly. Before that, I could not understand anything in a trance. With our son, now, of course, somehow the regime has improved, although he is only a month old. I am not a fan of anything regime, but knowing when to sleep saves me and those around me. nine0118

“I myself am from the regimeless. Sometimes I get hungry six times a day, sometimes one. I fall asleep and wake up at random. I can start baking pies at 2 am or go for a walk instead of dinner. But when my daughter was born, I saw that she needed at least some semblance of a daily routine. So I started to adjust, and I even liked it!”

In nature, in animals, in the human body, everything is subject to cycles and schedules: day/night, seasons, women's cycles, growing up, aging - everything goes according to a certain pattern developed over millennia. For example, a pregnancy lasts an average of forty weeks. People are accustomed to this and can rely on this knowledge. Agree, it would be terribly inconvenient if some women had a child a week after conception, some - a month later, someone went pregnant for forty weeks, and someone for five years. That doesn't happen. Humans are cyclical. nine0003

The absolute majority of children (and adults) live easier and calmer within the framework of habitual sequences, when everything is predictable.

Yes, you may not know exactly what your plans are for the day. But you know for sure that when you wake up, you will brush your teeth. Then, most likely, you will have breakfast. After a few hours, you will be hungry again and want to have lunch. You know that today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday, that it is autumn now, after which winter will definitely come.

Even the most creative person has a lot of certainties and sequences in his life. It helps keep me from going crazy.

Now imagine what it's like for a child who is completely dependent on you and has no idea what will happen in the next second, in an hour or tomorrow. When upbringing is unsystematic, chaotic, the child's behavior deteriorates. He does not know what to expect, begins to get nervous, sleep worse and act up. You have the opportunity to help your child feel better by creating a daily routine for him. nine0003

Now I'm not talking about the regime by the minute, but about the schedule. These are different things and please do not confuse them.

A well-organized routine is not just stupidly following the minute hand of the clock, but observing the needs of the child and helping him form good habits.

The following is an acceptable daily routine for children aged three to seven:

• 7:00–7:30 Wake up

• 8:00–9:30 Breakfast

• 10:00-12:00 Walk

• 12:30-13:00 Lunch

• 13:00-15:00 Daytime nap or quiet time 9002-
16:30 Snack

• 17: 00–18: 00 Walk
• 18: 30–19: 00 Dinner
• 20: 00–21: 00 Start of night sleep

This mode will allow your child's nervous system not to be overloaded, have a good rest and recover, and therefore significantly reduce such manifestations of overwork as nail biting, nervous tics, child masturbation and much, much more. nine0003

When dealing with problems with children, always start with a routine and you can't go wrong.

In any case, when you come to a psychologist, neurologist or pediatrician with complaints about your child's behavior, any of these specialists will first advise you to adjust the regimen. So do not waste this time and extra money - come with an already built regimen, puzzle a specialist!

"An obedient child is scary": why children should not be "comfortable"

The moment came when the eldest son had to choose a school. This is a headache for any conscious parent. I really wanted it to be the best of the best schools, which is easy to get to. Naturally, a long and tedious search began: reading reviews on the Internet, studying different ratings, compiling your own list of schools from which you can then choose, signing up for open days, etc.

There was one school that stood out in our district that parents said was great. We decided to go there, look at it from the outside and from the inside, taking with us the very person who was supposed to spend the next ten years there.
And so, having arrived at the place, I watch from the car window the children who go out with satchels behind their backs, and I have some strange, completely incomprehensible feeling. Only on the way back I realized what it was connected with. The fact is that absolute silence reigned in this school. The children didn't run around the building, they didn't scream, they didn't run, they didn't fight, and it was very strange. I look at the children that parents meet and decide that it is necessary to talk with dads and moms. After all, the opinion of an adult may differ from the reviews on the Internet. I go up to one mommy and say:

— Sorry, we are choosing a school, and I wanted to know exactly your parental opinion. Are you satisfied with the way your children are taught and treated here?

This mother's eyes immediately sparkled, and she began to chatter:

- This is the best school! We are very satisfied! My child became a completely different person when he started studying here! For me and my husband, this is just a godsend!

— How did he become a different person? Can be more?

Here she takes me a little aside and says in such, you know, sincerely insinuating voice:

- My child finally became obedient! Now he obeys me in everything!

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Bingo! The school did its job, and mom is very happy about it! But for me, this was the first signal that I needed to run away from here as quickly as possible.

I'm a weird dad, aren't I? Who does not want his children to be obedient. After all, from early childhood we hear from grandparents, moms and dads that a good child is an obedient child.

I think that an obedient child is, first of all, a convenient child. Moreover, it is convenient for everyone: parents, teachers (many teachers generally write down such people as their favorites) and even the state. nine0003
He will do whatever he is told; meekly accept the rules of the game; listen to elders; vote in elections for whom they say; drink what is poured; endure temporary difficulties that never end, and will be an absolutely normal person in society. Submissive, waiting for a command, without initiative, not trying to change the world. I really think so, and here's why.

Imagine an adult working person who is accustomed to obey (obey) and do only what is included in his duties. Believe me, I know hundreds of such people, especially a lot of former state employees who could not take responsibility for their lives into their own hands. You will never expect initiative from such a person, he will never do more than necessary, he will work only formally and from nine to six, and the limit of his dreams is the notorious "like everyone else" or "no worse than others." nine0003
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Normal way of life of a normal person. He was used to being led from childhood, and this model was firmly entrenched in his mind. This, by the way, is one of the reasons why in the nineties and zero, many regular officers went to work as security guards after they retired. nine0003
Or here's another picture for you. An obedient adult person finds himself in a bad company at the institute, having escaped from the oppression of his parents, where all his entourage lead an idle life, loitering around, skipping classes and drinking at every opportunity.

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How will this obedient adult behave if he is not used to saying “no”? How will he defend his independence if he does not know how to do this? Adults who have grown from obedient children are always looking at how people around behave. Focusing on someone else's opinion is the norm for them, so they always join the majority: it's safer that way. nine0003
Or like this. Someone's beautiful, angelic, such an obedient daughter finally got married, but her husband turned out to be not who he claimed to be, and became a despot who does not even shy away from assault. The obedience of this girl made her submissive in life, and she believes that love can only be earned by exemplary behavior, as it was with her parents, that you will be loved only if you are a good girl. She suppressed her own priorities and desires in childhood, because others are primary. And now she is climbing out of her skin, but the despot husband is still not satisfied with this. And so, year after year, a huge number of women endure domestic violence. nine0003
Of course, an obedient child is very convenient for parents, but he will have to pay for this later, in his future adult life, on his own, without parents nearby.

Being obedient is a lifelong model. Even as an adult, a person with an obedience mindset is afraid to take risks, take independent steps, constantly waits for approval from society, and at the same time hates people like me.

Read the comments on the posts of entrepreneurs in social networks. Some people often reject their desire to be independent, enterprising, socially active and expressing their own, dissenting opinions. Kind of obedient comfortable adults who grew out of obedient convenient children who suffer from such a model. But they do not have the opportunity to change something, simply because they do not know how to live differently. Parents didn't teach. nine0003
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My goal in working with children is for them to become self-sufficient and happy adults. Therefore, any of them can reasonably insist on their own if they do not agree with my opinion. Reasonable, please. Without unreasonable tantrums and protests. But even if a tantrum starts, I will still talk to them to understand what caused it. Although sometimes you want to bang your fist on the table and say: “Do it! Because I said so!" nine0003
And here the reader of this book should ask me a question. Something from the series: “So children can do everything? Beat brothers and sisters? Feed your dog glue? Pulling mom's hair? Set fire to dad's mustache? Pooping in the living room? And not go to school whenever they feel like it?"

No, of course not. There are rules, regime and boundaries for this.

And each of these points will be displayed in separate tattoos, which you will see further. And when modern school teachers clutch at their heads and say that every year children become more and more dissolute and disobedient, the main problem here is not obedience, but that adults have not taught children to respect boundaries and rules. nine0003
It is not customary for us to beat brothers and sisters, because no one beats anyone in our family. You can’t go into the bedroom with mom and dad, because sometimes they need to be alone. You cannot take someone else's toy without the permission of the owner, because it is his property. You need to go to bed at 21:30 in order to feel good the next day. And so on.

I know for sure: when a child understands where his boundaries end and others begin, when he is ready to follow the rules adopted in the family, when he has an understandable planned regimen, then it is easier for him to live. And in the observance of order and discipline there is no suppression of the individual. There is transparency, predictability and calmness of the child. For the rest, let him be free, show his curiosity and leadership qualities. nine0003
As a family, we do not force children to go to clubs or sports sections that they do not want to attend. We make all decisions together, discuss them, and children know that their opinions are balanced with the opinions of an adult. Where to go on vacation? How to spend the weekend? What movie will we watch? The child must feel the freedom of choice and the significance of his opinion. Moreover, he can always be against it, and we will try to hear him. Indeed, thanks to his disagreement, we will be able to discover something new in him! Find out his position, hear his arguments, see his pain, so that later it would not turn out to be an unpleasant surprise for us. At least this way we will know what to talk about with the child. nine0003
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