03-07-2021, 10:10 PM
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Re: Just Imagine
Originally Posted by Harbal
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Just imagine that one of your kids comes round and starts to go on about how wonderful you are. Imagine how uncomfortable you would become, having to just sit and listen to them telling you what a wise and reliable parent you have always been to them. Telling you that you are, and always will be, the most important person in their life. Telling you that their admiration and devotion are boundless. 03-07-2021, 10:16 PM
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Re: Just Imagine
Originally Posted by Lindyloo
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It seems to me this is the wrong way around. As parents we are encouraged to give our children praise, praise and more praise - to encourage and create self-confidence. Did this happen to us? Not in my experience.............it was more along the lines of "you'd better pass that exam or else" or "however did you manage to pass that exam?". I wonder if this (possibly) excessive praise and raising self confidence may have something to do with the over-active self confidence and excessive entitlement seen in so many of the younger generation............
04-07-2021, 06:08 AM
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Re: Just Imagine
Originally Posted by UkGameCoder
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Dead right, Artangel. We had to earn our pocket money under one of the strictest fascist regimes in history.Example:
MUM: "David. If you go down the shop for me, I'll give you sixpence."
ME: "Er, sorry, Mum - don't need the work right now. Thanks anyway!
"MUM: "David. I take it you don't need your skull busting wide open either, eh?"
ME: "Can you make it a bob then?"
SILENCE
ME: "Allright, allright - give me the damned sixpence then."
We all like to be appreciated my son told everyone in his wedding speech he won the life lottery having me as his mum and I will always remember that.....I don't believe in a religious god though so all those praises go on deaf ears as far as I'm concerned.
04-07-2021, 07:15 AM
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Re: Just Imagine
Originally Posted by summer
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I don't believe in a religious god though so all those praises go on deaf ears as far as I'm concerned.
04-07-2021, 08:21 AM
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Re: Just Imagine
Originally Posted by Harbal
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I think you might have missed the point, Lindy. What I described was a very unlikely hypothetical situation about our own children, and how undesirable we would find it were it not so unlikely and hypothetical. So I was just posing the question: why do we imagine that God likes it with his children?
04-07-2021, 08:50 AM
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Re: Just Imagine
Originally Posted by Artangel
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Harbal, So why didn’t you put this thread in the Religious section?
04-07-2021, 08:51 AM
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Re: Just Imagine
Originally Posted by Harbal
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Two reason's, Art: I didn't realise there was a religious section, and the thread is about discouraging religion, and I didn't want to come across as preaching.
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