[LMB] Betan influence

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Joel Polowin wrote:

> Louann Miller <louann at millerdome.com> wrote:
> >In that respect Beta reminds me of my own present/planned parenting
> >style: give them as much freedom as is practical both to give them lots
> >of independent-decision practice and so that (with a slightly evil grin)
> >when they get to their teen years they're going to be nonplussed at the
> >relative scarcity of things to rebel against.
>
> Hmm.  There's a bit in David Nobbs' _The Fall And Rise of Reginald
> Perrin_ -- a rather darker book than the BBC series that was made
> from it -- in which Reggie is writing a supposed farewell note to his
> daughter and son-in-law.  He advises them to provide some fairly
> solid boundaries for their children (who'd been shown to be little
> monsters because their parents wanted to give them total freedom)
> because otherwise, when they grew up into teenagers, they'd still
> need to show their rebellion, and would have to resort to extremely
> drastic measures to find something that their parents would
> disapprove of.

Ah, but that's fictional.  In my own experience I've seen the
children of extremely liberal parents find an easy way to annoy
their parents--they go conservative in some way (often religious)
that is guaranteed to raise their hair.  It is usually but not
always temporary.  I have a dear friend whose parents are your
fairly standard academic left-leaning liberals and in her
mid-late teens she went Libertarian for a while--drove
them NUTS.

~malfoy :)

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