2013-01-02, 06:41 PM
Curtiss Wrote:Your mom sounds special (No offence, I'm just confused as to how she expects a 10 year old kid to have that kind of compassion and selflessness when almost all of them won't because they don't have the life experiences to decide on that). Personally, I think that's why she included the part about making mistakes because she's wise enough to know he's going to screw up on at least one of those points but she's also telling him that's when they'll sit down and talk about it.
None taken. It still irks me at times, because she sometimes expects me to live up to her expectations, and they are well...unreasonable at times.
What I'm saying is that these rules won't make him a better person. When rules make people better people, it's out of fear; rules don't teach people not to do things...it teaches people how to get around the system and not get caught. All those parents forbidding their children to date in high school...Do these kids actually not date? Sure, some don't, but many simply choose to date behind their parents' back. Plagerism gets you expelled. Does that prevent people from doing it? Nope, they just try to become more sneaky. People choose not to date because they think to themselves "you know, they might actually have a point...I'm NOT ready!", and people choose not to cheat because "dangit, I'm better than that. I don't need to cheat to get my grades! I study hard, I won't have to cheat!"