Well it
is one thing to actually get a web site up and running and another
thing to put something half decent and interesting on it. Unfortunately
I do not have any particularly brilliant ideas at the moment as to what
to fill this site with. I was tempted to include information for
parents who are experiencing behaviour problems with their children.
Then I thought -why bother? Let's face it, the reason many teens are
rude and disrespectful to their parents is simply because there are no
distasteful consequences when they do. Teens misbehave because they can.
Of course there are some young people who because of deprivations in
their lives can become troubled and oppositional. By and large that is
not the case for most teens whose behaviour might be termed 'out of
control'. So in the end the solution to such behaviour is boringly
obvious. Parents need to be effective and consistent with discipline
and to locate effective consequences for their teen's behaviour.
So I have decided not to go down that particular route of using this website to educate parents.
I figure that I will use it to voice my opinions on whatever
takes my interest. Let's face it, no one is going to be reading it
anyway! There is something satisfying about venting one's spleen
and sounding off about something or other. So having bored my friends
rigid for years (bless them both) with my opinions, I will give them a
break by doing it on my web page instead.
As it happens I am in a good frame of mind at present and not sufficiently motivated to write anything.
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