Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (88134)	1/20/2011 6:15:47 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

<<Most children need discipline.....some more than others. If you don't understand that very basic of concepts, then you can't be a very effective teacher. And discipline doesn't mean beating them.>> First, I was considered one of the best teachers in the district when I taught. I should have spent my life teaching. I have regrets about that. It was what I did best in life and loved. My two wives and I had constant pressure to discipline our children and we told them all to screw off. No church either. At all. They got remarried and between us we have five children. And all the kids intermingle. All kids started in Montessorie at 2.5 years. All five were honor students all through high school and college. None of them got into trouble of any kind. Humor in my extended family is top dog. How we raised the kids and with almost total freedom. At dinner we had full out debates. The kids were encouraged to jump in any time. Five kids between 27 to 37. #1) UC Berkeley and Loyola Law school (37). Married a PHD atmospheric scientist. Raises her two kids very gently using humor. No discipline! 16 year relationship. When I ask her what she is doing she responds: :rolling around the floor with annecy" (her 4 year old daughter)". #2) A+ student and scientist (27). Very happy life. Administers companies. Getting ready to work on PHD. Has faculty lined up for scholorships and TA psoitions. Always at the top of her classes. #3) A+ bio chemistry major and now (27) runs a lab with 12 employees and planning to go to med scchool. Total rebel and my poker partner. We played poker in Vancouver B.C and got stoned at the Amsterdam cafe-lol. His parents sent him up to spend a summer with me a few years back. No blood relationship. #4) Chief of staff for minority leader of our house legislature. Had to put her ein classes two levels above her age class as she was too far ahead. #5) Straight A student studying to be an actress in New YOrk. All of this was accomplished in public schools and pretty much complete freedom for each kid was encouraged to manifest their own destiny as they saw fit. All very happy kids. All have wonderful senses of humor and compassion and at gatherings we laugh a lot. And any one of them could hold their own in a debate with any adult by age 14. What more do you expect from a kid?