Obedience

Oggi la nostra classe d'italiano ha discusso il [plot] e il messaggio di quattro favole: Cappuccetto Rosso, Bianca Neve e I Sette Nani, Cerentola, e La Sirenetta.  Quest'ultime tre sono stati composti in film dal Disney. La prima, la terza, e la quarta dimostrano il tema dell'obbedienza....che i figli devono obbedire i genitori.

Oh...plot=la trama

Oddly enough, my friends also discussed obedience today...and how hard it is to control kids.  They seem to think that parents need to be really strict, and this force will convince children to be good.  Most of them were scolded severely, and "even" spanked or belted when they were young.  I was too, but I don't believe in hitting kids.  There's got to be another way.  Not that it's easy or anything.  I'm a college student currently, and just beginning to think about having kids and how to properly raise them.  I would love to be a nearly "perfect" mom who rarely gets upset, but I'm not so sure that is realistic.  It's just that I've so often observed mothers yelling at their kids, and I usually cringed.  Not that I want my kids to have control of me.  I want PEACE, gosh darn it! haha.  I know kids need to learn that there are boundaries they must not cross, but how does one enforce them?  How do you get a protesting child to go to sleep?  I learned in psychology last year that once a parent caves in to their child and reinforces whining or other bad behavior, the child will continue the behavior that led them to receive a reward.  But that requires great willpower!!

I trust I'll know soon enough; after all, my mother did a fairly decent job.  In the meantime, I need to get some sleep.

(Note: Due to this picture, this blog is now rated PG-13  But you really should be 13 to look at this anyway...or most websites nowadays, so yea.)